Blackbird Singing In The Dead Of Night (Patreon)

Paul McCartney's Blackbird is well-known as a hauntingly beautiful tribute to the American Civil Rights Movement, but it's not the first song you might think of if you're looking for complex harmony. It sounds pretty simple and straightforward, but beneath that surface lies some very strange, counterintuitive choices that, to be blunt, probably shouldn't actually work. But they do, because Paul does a brilliant job disguising them, making them wrong but not TOO wrong. This week, we're looking at how exactly he does that and, perhaps more importantly, why.