Despite being an imagining of life after a nuclear war (the "No Doves Fly Here" of the 1960s), "Morning Dew" is chillingly fitting for our current times. While Rose in a sense stole the song and took the deserved glory away from its author Bonnie Dobson*, his version has an intensity and power that shakes you to your core.
* Click here for Dobson's first recording of the song in 1962.
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