That's the way I felt on first hearing Donnie Fritts' Prone To Lean. I'd never heard of him at the time, and he wasn't too energetic following it up with a solo career, which is our loss if not his. If for some reason you don't know it (and let's face it, the guy wasn't exactly on fire with self-promotion), here's your opportunity to pretend you've championed him since '74, the Golden Year of Albums Like This. He died last year, God rest his great soul.
The Allmusic rating for this is an unbelievably shameful two stars, and nobody can even be assed to write a review. So here's one:
Outstanding. Five stars.
To welcome this digital data to the cloistered seclusion of your hard drive, simply state your favorite mealtime beverage!
ReplyDeleteAn inexpensive Nuits-Saint-Georges
Deletea nice doppelbock
Deletemy favourite mealtime beverage is complicated..One beer at 5.0pm
Deleteand then two large glasses of vino.
Two large glasses of Vimto! Now you're talkin'!
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Agreed.
DeleteVimto
ReplyDeleteDid you know, Piers me old pal, that Vimto is marketed in Japan as Kepu?
DeleteDid you hear the one about the dyslexic heroin addict?
DeleteHe choked to death on his own vimto.
(John Cooper Clarke)
Beer!
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I haven't even listened to this yet and I'm going to give it a perfect "5/7" rating
ReplyDeleteConsidering that it's 7am on the West Coast of the good 'ole U.S. of A., I think I will start the day with some sweet caffeine in the form of a Pepsi.
ReplyDeleteOn my second listen to "Prone To Lean" as I type this. Excellent record!
ReplyDeleteI always heard of Donnie Fritts, probably when reading av=bout Outlaw Country or what not, but never checked him out. Maybe I thought he was too trad country for me? Will rectify this now.
ReplyDeleteMealtime beverage? Sparkling water, probably.
But how about apéritif favorites?
Mine? "Gazoile", as nos amis the French would say, or gasoline.
Pastis with coke. Try it, it's really good. Nos amis the French are regularly outraged at what I do with one of their national treasures, but that's 'cause these ignorant conservative je-ne-sais-quoi's don't know what they're missing.
I was told by lovely elderly lady, at a cafe in Béziers, that before drinking your first Pastis you must make a wish and it will come true.
DeleteAnd it did.
C'est fantastique, Monsieur Le Chat de Jacques Kerouac!
DeleteBy the way, has Myra risen from the Dead, brought back to the waking and walking world by Ron Burgundy?
ReplyDeleteThanks for this. That stealth link certainly is stealthy. Donnie Fritts! Country soul a bit Dan Penn-stylee! And a JCC joke in the comments! Must be Thursday...
ReplyDeleteTequila with breakfast, Mezcal for lunch and wine for dinner (hey, I'm sophisticated).
ReplyDelete'Funky' Donnie Fritts played himself in a part in the 2003 film 'The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico'...great soundtrack, too. He plays backup to the film's titular character (a fictitious singer) played by Canadian power-pop singer Matt Murphy. Kris Kristofferson was also part of the project.
ReplyDeleteNescafé first (I'm no coffee snob, although other choices are available to me - cappu, espresso, filter, cafetière).
ReplyDeleteTea with breakfast. Tea bags are fine, if the leaf is good.
Snob coffee mid-morning, at home or in a café.
Water with lunch, soda water if I'm feelin' frisky.
I might indulge myself with a small tin of ice-cold suds on the deck when the sun's behind the house. "Rock n' roll - phew!"
Wasn't always this way, of course. I was up to a couple of bottles of wine a day, plus all the extra tipple (beers, apéros, digestifs etc.), in Paris.
Impossible not to agree with the 5 stars rating.
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