Review

November, 11th 2016

The essence of the song is like a conversation between a guy and a girl. He invites her to come to Boston at first, Denver at second, where he currently is, as the temporary settlement, according to the opinion of the girl. He says how wonderfully Boston looks like in the seasons of the year – spring, winter, … But she refuses, as considers that Boston isn’t right city for the guy and asks him to go back home to her. She thinks rightfully that there is no gold mine in the city and there is definitely no one like her there. The home is back in Tennessee. He has a different opinion about that. First of all, the life of a singer is too whirly and he already can’t stop at any point of his living without being regressing. That is why he chooses the life in a place where he has perspectives and can’t go back just like that. Though he realizes that he indeed needs a woman, to whom he could address, on whom he could rely and to whom he could sing a song or two. When he asks her to Denver or Boston, he says that there are beautiful canyons where your echo can wander around for a long time until it comes back to you. And there is a cozy corner in the house where a girl could stay for a while. There are a few business capabilities for them – they could sell the paintings and there is a café where they could work. We don’t understand what is the reason of such a great love of a singer to these cities, neither a girl does. Eventually, he changes the preferences and asks a girl to visit him in LA, which is somehow has become more suitable for him now. What is tangling him there are the shooting stars from the sky and a house nearby the ocean that he has but the life is too hard for him to struggle alone and thus he asks a girl to come to him there. She still refuses, repeating the same old plate – you are a guy from Tennessee, you should come home to me and so on.
This song of the country and soft rock genres has peaked the #1 in 1974 in the US and peaked #2 in Canada the same year. The success of this piece can be backed by the fact that this was covered many times. Amongst the most significant people who did it, are Willie Nelson, Tori Amos, and Reba McEntire. This is not the full list – to find it, follow the link to Wikipedia. Dave Loggins, the author, sang it and wrote it. It was included in the album of 1974, and the best achievement of this song is a Grammy nomination.
After 40 years have passed since the origin, the writer recalls this evening when he was working on a song and it seems to him like it was not him but somebody else who wrote it. The story is almost true except there were no one who would wait for him in Tennessee, so he had to make up a person to whom he was having a conversation, to enhance the effect of longing to the hometown. He wished to visit the cities, about which he sang in this piece and after he did, he couldn’t say that he had a change in his opinion about those – all just stayed the same. Reference: Dave Loggins and his song "Please Come to Boston" on Wikipedia