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| Hey! Bob! They're in your hair! |
In 1985, when charts still meant something, Bob had six songs on the country charts - four of them in the top ten. This is his only album, from '72. He was too busy making a very sweet living writing hits for just about everybody else. A song a week for thirty years, until he quit ("just lost the desire"). Only the one record is a shame, and our loss, because he has a to-die-for voice and there's not an unswell song on the entire album. He produced and played on it, too, the insufferable man.
If, like me, you've been shamefully unaware of him, you could do a whole lot worse than to catch up immediately, and again like me, panic-Google and pretend you've been a fan for, like, too long, man!
To bite into this home-baked biscuit, simply tell everybody how long you've been this guy's number one fan! Extra FoamPoints™ awarded if you "had it on vinyl"!
ReplyDeleteOn vinyl? S**t, I was playing this on my Edison cylinder when Edison was just a gleam in his mother's eye.
ReplyDelete"Sh**t"?
DeleteProbably what's known as overegging the pudding (or just being very, very silly.) But then my old granny used to say, you can never put too many eggs in a pudding, having, as she did, about 200 chickens in the backyard, not to mention the pig. Thinking about it, yes, definitely do not mention the pig. Or what she used to make of the pig once grandad had 'seen' to it........
ReplyDeleteThe link has been posted.
ReplyDeleteOh, so it has. Merci bien, mon choux.
DeleteExcept, of course, chou should not have the 'x' on the end. Chou-x, Richsrd Hearne in disguise.....?
DeleteKnew Bob when he was a cashier at the Piggly Wiggly, and I have an autographed copy of Short Stories. Not only that, I screwed his sister. No really.
ReplyDeleteI remember interviewing him for that job (I was Area HR at the time). He was really desperate. I said, joking, "what would you do for this job, Bob?" And he said, "You can have my sister. Pimp her out when you're done." And that signed album? There was a stack of 'em behind the counter, we'd take turns signing them, gave 'em out with orders. Happy times!
DeleteMcDill? Isn't that what a Scotsman puts on his freshly caught fish?
ReplyDeleteI'm on the opening track and it sounds real good, so far.
to Sambgodot : somewhere chou take an x puisque les enfants naissent dedans.
ReplyDeleteto Farquhar : hey you give me the virus (ok, not covid) the one that let me search the point or letter links at looking back to all your post, even those i already have lp ( NYRE,ZEVON,ORPHAN) and you're right it's fun game.
#1 fan? Well, I did recognize the name from Don Williams LPs.
ReplyDeleteNo points for me - I had it on 8 track. ;-)
ReplyDeleteProfanity! Potty mouth!
ReplyDeleteI know Catfish John from several extended Jerry Garcia versions. Seems to me Jer was doing it every other night for a while in the late '70s, early 80s.
If your review holds, this oughta be a very nice listen.
Thanks Farq!
Um, I suddenly feel uneasy about freeloading on the basis
ReplyDeleteof little more than a glowing review. To make up the difference,
however, I can at least at least try to impersonate a couple
of my favorite writers on this blog:
"Let's see now. I believe I've been a fan of that songwritin'
feller's music all the way back to when I's knee-high to a
psilocybin-chompin' cicada."
"We din 'ave 8-tracks inni 'ills. Din 'ave country charts neither. Nor Edison cylinders. All we 'ad were them catalogs from Columbia 'ouse Record Club."
I give up. Franck and Anonymous?
DeleteI was being just that tiny bit sneaky. It's Anonymous
DeleteAND Anonymous!
*Punches Crab Devil playfully on upper arm* Why, you rascal!
DeleteBeen a fan since I heard Come Early Mornin' on Nicolette Larson's first album. (And yes, I had that on vinyl).
ReplyDeleteI genuflect to touch the hem of your garment.
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