Waking to bad news in the wider world, and bitter cold in my narrow one ... and then my truck broke down. Bourbon hour could not come soon enough today.

timmuky 7 Jan 2015

What I probably was listening to most this week...20 years ago (Part 2). Too few people have heard of Ted Hawkins. I hadn't heard of him until the release of The Next Hundred Years, and sadly, the career busker wasn't with us for very many years afterward. A few weeks after the album's release, I saw him play at the Bluebird Café in Nashville (my only visit to that storied venue for songwriters). Hawkins opened with this song (a cover from the album of a Webb Pierce classic). He pointed to the front door of the club and bellowed the first line as he does in this clip...and for an intense few seconds, I thought he was ordering all of us to leave. But he turned out to be a genial entertainer, not to mention a unique singer. Miss him. (Album released March 29, 1994)   5

jcopestuf 1 Apr 2014