tales from an ordinary world

2001-04-04b

Now Playing : Honky Tonkin', by The Mekons.

Maybe it's the couple of beers I had before heading home, but I threw this CD on and it just worked for me. I suppose it makes good pub sorta music - the drowning sorrows of Gram Parsons' Sleepless Nights tempered with the almost singalong nature (perhaps reinforced by the fact that there's two versions of the song on the CD) of Prince of Darkness. I remember the first time I heard someone cover Sin City - it was Evan Dando doing a solo gig at the Tote, and somewhere in between his trademark haphazard performance (including trying a few times to start one particular song, then giving up and coming back to it later, because like, he really wanted to play it for us. "I guess I'm a little flustered," he apologized), out he came with Sin City and it really did something (for me, anyway). "This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poorhouse..." It was events like this (perhaps one could even call it an epiphany ?) that helped me to start appreciating "country" music.