Happy Saturday! Looks like we've traded the bitterly cold temperatures over the past several days for a good dumping of snow overnight. It's looking like another winter wonderland out there but the temperatures are a little less frigid, and the sun is still out there.
It might be nice to start off this weekend with something mellower. For example, we can try the final track from singer-songwriter Takako Shirai's（白井貴子）November 1981 debut album "Do For Loving", "Kaze no Naka" (In the Wind). Shirai wrote and composed this one with Machiko Ryu（竜真知子） also getting a co-lyricist credit.
Compared to the snazzy City Pop from the first track "Pillowcase ni Sayonara"（ピローケースにさようなら）and Shirai's noticeably lower vocals, the final track "Kaze no Naka" is more in the light and bouncy AOR vein with the singer going higher in pitch. And of course, for those who have known her for years as a rocker, it still must come across as a revelation to hear this early groovier side to Shirai.
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