What you may have not know about Waylon Jennings (what I didn’t know until quite recently) was that Waylon Jennings should have died with Buddy Holly in 1959 on a chartered plane leaving Mason City, Iowa headed to Moorhead, Minnesota but he gave up his seat to the Big Bopper.
[The Big Bopper wrote “Chantilly Lace” the un-official theme song that was sung at the pep-rallies of my first high school. It made no sense for us to sing that song – it just so happened that I went to Chantilly High]
crazy shit. Call it destiny, fate or chaos – the man lived.
Ramblin’ Man is a good album from one of the founders of ‘outlaw country’. Here’s a few highlights:
Side A:
Midnight Rider. One of my favorite songs from the Allman Brothers* and a good cover.
Side B:
I Can’t Keep My Hands Off of You: kind of a cheesy-great break up song.
It’ll Be Her: The song I fell in love with - it’s really charming- I plan on playing this song on my wedding day**
[somewhere in here I had a rant about why I listen to classic rock.. about how modern day rock is dead. About how mainstream rock stations are barely staying alive by playing a variety of ‘alternative’ selections from their ‘vault’ that existed sometime before Limp Bizkit came along. And about how there’s not even any hope for music from within mainstream hip hop stations that prove on a daily basis that payola is alive and well. But maybe I should save that for another blog. No, wait, actually that’s all I had to say about that...no need for another blog.]
*It’s hard to pick a favorite Allman Brothers song. This is one of them because I just have a hard time picking favorites and I like imagining this as a theme song:. “I’ve got to run to keep from hidin’…no I ain’t gonna let ‘em catch a midnight rider”. When really, I’m not running from anyone but maybe the Oakland Public Library whom I owe money to and the City of Oakland whom I also owe money to.
**the funny thing about designated songs like that is that you can always say you’re going to play them at a certain event. In reality, certain songs can transverse from situation to situation and still have a unique meaning to that particular situation. There are some songs that will only have one particular situation or one particular association and some that can be recycled but not loose their meaning. Perhaps, when that fateful day arrives, I won’t feel the same. I hear this song and picture no one (just some kind of entity) but maybe when the day arrives I’ll realize that in fact it doesn’t fit. That it only fits right now, as a song to an unnamed person. What I’m trying to say is: don’t hold me to it.
No comments:
Post a Comment