This is what happens when you've been on the road injesting caffeine just
to stay awake ... you get home and can't go to sleep. So, you check your
e-mail and attempt to start threads (most likely in vain). Here goes:
Driving back from our gig in Knoxville tonight, me and my sick bandmate
shared some stories about great CD's/albums we bought used, prompted by the
used CD's we picked up tonight and listened to on the 2hr. drive: Mike
Henderson's "Edge of Night," The Brother Boys' "Plow," and Bare Jr.'s
"Boo-tay" (which I bought last week but hadn't really listened much to
yet). We wondered who had given up on these treasures so that we could
pick 'em up for $6-$8 a pop?
3 of my favorite used pick-ups:
1. Springsteen's "Born to Run" (vinyl): bought it used at Raven Records in
Knoxville back in '84 -- listened to it constantly/pracitcally daily until
'89 or so (and college).
2. Webb Wilder's "It Came From Nashville" (CD): having lost or loaned out
my original vinyl of this record mucho years ago, I came across a copy of
the CD re-issue at Backdoor Records here in J.C. about two years ago. Gawd,
I do love it so -- great rockabilly vocals and licks, early songs by Steve
Earle ("Devil's Right Hand") and Kevin Welch ("Poolside"), and, as always,
the great combo of R.S. Fields rock songwriting with Webb's estimable vocal
charisma!
3. The Fugs' "Golden Filth" (cassette): file this under currently missing
in action (I've obviously loaned it to someone ... lord knows who), but I
got this at the same place (but 3 years later) than I picked up Bruuuce,
and it distorted my mind in so many ways that I became, as a result, an
English major AND a songwriter! So, mom and dad, blame Ed Sanders.
Later,
Rob
Np. "Pet Sounds" on headphones ... makes me sleepy.
Rob Russell
Johnson City, TN
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