All Things Must Pass is an amazing album and truly, one of the best of the post-Beatles  albums released by the Fabs (11/27/1970).

Released less than a year after their highly public break up. A veritable who’s who was in the studio helping out with this album’s creation, including at least a couple of the ex Beatles (Ringo, and John). Co-Produced (Wiyh George Harrison) by the (later highly troubled and controversial) the ‘wall of sound’man himself, Phil Specter.

There are many great songs on this triple LP:  Isn’t it A Pity,  Wah Wah, Let It Down, What Is My Life, All Things Must Pass, I Dig Love,  I’d Have You Anytime,  If Not For You, The Art Of Dying. They’ve been in numerous movie, soundtracks and get a lot of radio play. I highly recommended, checking out at least the first two sides of this triple album. Where the third side is just a series of jams and silly songs. 

My favorite is the song Beware Of Darkness. It really is a wonderful cautionary tale song. The guitars and everything else are just fantastic in this song with a lot of really great blues chords. 

The lyrics are very telling and very appropriate, even for today, especially the last verse set in my opinion, which rings true in today’s political climate in the Americas:

    “Watch out now, take care Beware of 

      greedy leaders, they take you where you 

      should not go, while Weeping Atlas 

      Cedars, they just want to grow, grow and 

      grow, Beware of darkness.”

Aside from the interesting music and poignant lyrics., I feel the song ends sort of on a non-resolved chord, and then there’s just a bit of a soft resolve by the keyboard and strings at the very end of the song. 

Covered by the great Leon Russell first on his self titled album with the shelter people and on the live Bangladesh album. 

Check it out I think you’ll enjoy it and as always, thank you for reading and listening…

-aaa