Ain't no cure for the estival blues

Who knows what lies beneath our murky blue waters? / Beach Haven, NJ / July 2008

“Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler
About workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues”

~ lyrics from “Summertime Blues” by Eddie Cochran & Jerry Capehart

Click here for a circa 1958 YouTube version of Summertime Blues by Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer Eddie Cochran who died in 1960 at the age of 21. According to the Hall-of-Fame, Cochran “perfected a sound ... that featured driving acoustic and electric guitars, handclaps and tambourines, and lyrics that unerringly expressed the alienated teen mindset” (I'd say they express the middle-age mindset as well).

*The word estival means “of, relating to, or appearing in summer.”