#marrakesh express

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 “Marrakesh Express”     Hoke...Ebay Outsider-Art Auction...Apr 1-8...                       Acrylic Painting on Wood...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/metrolux6/m.html?item=265109197914&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

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“Marrakesh Express”     Hoke...Ebay Outsider-Art Auction...Nov 18-25...  Acrylic Painting on Wood...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/metrolux6/m.html?item=353283255175&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

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“Marrakesh Express”  artist, Hoke...Acrylic painting on wood.......                     Ebay Auction...April 22 - 27

http://www.ebay.com/sch/metrolux6/m.html?item=262949100877&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

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Marrakesh Express - Crosby Stills And Nash

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Blast from the Past!

“Marrakesh Express" is a song written by Graham Nash and performed by the band Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN). It was first released in May 1969 on the self-titled album, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The single reached No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 23, 1969. 

By the late 60s, Morocco was fast becoming an essential stop-off point on the new hippie trail. It was a place frequented by seekers of all stripes, from travelers and the more adventurous tourists through to artists, writers, fashionistas and rock stars. They were all drawn by the exotica of this storied corner of North Africa, whose heady promise of spiritual enlightenment and hashish served to melt away the conventions of the West.

In 1966, Graham Nash made a pilgrimage of his own, one that sparked off one of his most famous songs. On holiday from his day job as leader of The Hollies, Nash bought himself a ticket and hopped aboard a train from Casablanca to Marrakesh. “I was in first class and there were a lot of older, rich American ladies in there, who all had their hair dyed blue,” Nash recalls today. “And I quickly grew bored of that and went back to the third class of the train. That was where it was all happening. There were lots of people cooking strange little meals on small wooden stoves and the place was full of chickens, pigs and goats. It was fabulous; the whole thing was fascinating.”

So rich was the experience that Nash poured it into a vivid piece of psychedelic pop: Marrakesh Express. Mellifluous, carefree and irresistibly catchy, the lyrics made reference to ‘animal carpet wall-to-wall’, ‘colored cottons’ in the air and ‘charming cobras in the square’. But they also hinted at a vague sense of dissatisfaction with life, as if Nash was on some indefinable quest for something better. Particularly the lines: ‘Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind/Had to get away to see what we could find.’

In November 1968, Nash officially left The Hollies, heading out to California and taking up temporary residence at Crosby’s place. When it came to selecting songs for their self-titled debut album, Nash revived Marrakesh Express. Easily the most ‘pop’ song in the CSN canon, it was recorded at Wally Heider’s LA studio in February ’69. Stills’ guitar races along at a clip, echoing the literal rush of Nash’s Casablanca train and imbuing the song with a wondrous sense of buoyant optimism. There’s a smattering of nonsensical wordplay to begin, before Nash begins to sing in his warmest tones, exhorting everyone to climb aboard. You can almost feel the sunset through the windows.

Issued in May 1969, the album marked out Crosby, Stills & Nash as America’s first great supergroup and provided the counterculture with its definitive soundtrack. Marrakesh Express was released as the lead-off single and made the Billboard Top 30. Over here it reached No.17 and remains the only UK Top 20 hit of CSN’s entire career. It’s a song that continues to run on in its creator’s heart.

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Marrakesh Express - Crosby And Nash - 1969

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C,S & N - Marrakesh Express & Blackbird - Woodstock '69