Wait. What? Send me a message or something. This is troubling.
Kelly Hogan, gracing the stage of Twangfest 5 (!) in 2002 (!!!). Can’t wait to see her next week. Big fan. Huuuuuuge fan.
My inscrutable brain
Wake up with chorus of “Someday, Someway” in my head —> declare today “Pub Rock Friday” —> get “So It Goes” stuck in my head —> Listen to Nick Lowe’s “The Doings” box set —> realize “I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock & Roll)” sounds exactly like Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” —> dig up the Pulp Fiction soundtrack —> make it to Dusty Springfield’s “Son Of A Preacher Man” —> dig up Dusty In Memphis —> note how much of Kelly Hogan’s new album I Like To Keep Myself In Pain sounds like “Breakfast In Bed” —> start thinking about Twangfest and how much of my life I’ve devoted to it, and how weird it’s going to be going to it next week without having any responsibility (I’m not even taking my camera gear) —> start really, really missing my friends and wanting a drink and wondering how I got here as storm clouds loom in the west.
Almost real-time.
The dB’s - “Big Brown Eyes” (Live in London 1981)
FYI: Pub Rock Friday includes spiritual kin.
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Continuing Pub Rock Friday, here’s a clip of Elvis Costello hosting Late Show when Dave was recovering from a severe case of shingles in 2003, introducing himself and then doing “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love & Understanding” with The Imposters.
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Why, yes, this is Alejandro Escovedo covering Keith Richards’ “Evening Gown” from the first Bloodshot Records anniversary compilation, *Down To The Promised Land”. So much good stuff on it.
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Nick Lowe is such a badass, even dressed as the rock’n’roll version of The Riddler on Swedish television in 1978.
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It’s shaping up to be a Marshall Crenshaw/Nick Lowe/Alejandro Escovedo kind of day. Here’s Crenshaw doing “Someday, Someway” on the old Late Night program.
RIP John Fox. Now mayonnaise jars in the refrigerators of comedy condos everywhere are a safer place.
