Hudson River Wind Meditations (reissue, 2007)
LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
THE Hudson River begins somewhere way up in the Appalachian highlands and flows 315 miles south through upstate New York, dividing Manhattan and New Jersey as it filters out into the Atlantic Ocean. Lou Reed had sung of the river on “Romeo Had Juliette”, a gritty love song from 1989’s New York that used the dystopian city as a stage: . But by the time he released in April 2007 the river had taken on a different character for him. Visible from the window of the downtown penthouse that he shared with his wife Laurie Anderson, the Hudson became the backdrop to his daily
