Another one sees the light
Posted by TFG on April 1st, 2006
Rob Booth, on H3:
If you took Hank Sr., Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, and George Jones,
And put them through a clothes wringer,
And squeezed out their music essence,
And poured it into a Mason jar,
And buried it in the Alabama mud for a hundred years,
And gave it to David Allen Coe to wash down some pills with,
And kicked him in the ass and asked him if he was someone’s girlfriend in prison,
And asked if he knew any country songs,
And to spite you and the world he started singing,
It would sound like this.
I think Mr. Booth should be writing songs.
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:56 pm
I think that would be Tennessee mud, sir…
April 3rd, 2006 at 8:05 pm
…I guess I need to listen to some Hank 3. I swear, I kinda avoided him forever because of a Rolling Stone interview with him some years ago and thought oh good gravy, what an irritating, spoiled white-trash child and I bet he has some pet name for himself like “Bocephus” that he works into a bunch of his likely inane lyrics. But I’ll have to listen now-the comparison to Joe Strummer especially is intriguing and after reading this the other day I keep having old Clash songs banging around in my head. Hick the Casbah, or something…
R
April 4th, 2006 at 6:39 am
Re: Mud
I am second to no one in my respect for Tennessee soil, my grandfather (while mostly a Virginian and New Jersean) was born on Tennessee ground.
However, when I think of good mud to bury music essence in, I first think of a mud that I have a familiarity with, and that’s the slick Alabama mud.
I should point out that Mr. Williams the elder was born on that mud, so there is a good reason to place the Mason jar there. Although, I didn’t think of it at the time.
Re: Punk and H3
If one is a punk purist, then H3 won’t mean anything. If one is both a Rancid and a Joe Ely fan, let’s say, then H3 is worth checking out. IMHO.