October 26, 20187 yr Fuck me, I was just listening to "Elements and Things" Guy looked so fucking cool on that album cover. RIP TJW Edited October 26, 20187 yr by Lobo
October 26, 20187 yr This is probably my favorite song that references another song . . . give it time:
October 27, 20187 yr This is probably my favorite song that references another song . . . give it time: I’m proud to say that when I underage I got into Mother Blues
October 30, 20187 yr Damn.My one and only time to see him came at Ray Benson’s birthday bash at SXSW this year.Glad I had the opportunity
October 30, 20187 yr He didn't make it famous, but he wrote it. Laid the groundwork.. Brook Benton just enhanced it. Interesting, his 2 biggest songs both influenced by "Ode to Billie Joe": Quote When I got out of high school I went to Marietta, Georgia, I had a sister living there. I went down there to get a job and I was playing guitar too at the house and stuff. I drove a dump truck for the highway department and when it would rain you didn't have to go to work. You could stay home and play your guitar and hangout all night. So those thoughts came back to me when I moved on to Texas about three months later. I heard "Ode to Billie Joe" on the radio and I thought, man, how real, because I am Billie Joe, I know that life. I've been in the cotton fields. So I thought if I ever tried to write, I'm going to write about something I know about. At that time I was doing a lot of Elvis and John Lee Hooker onstage with my drummer. No original songs and I hadn't really thought about it. But after I heard Bobbie Gentry I sat down and thought … well I know about Polk because I had ate a bunch of it and I knew about rainy nights because I spent a lot of rainy nights in Marietta, Georgia. So I was real lucky with my first tries to write something that was not only real and hit pretty close to the bone, but lasted that long. So it was kind of a guide for me then on through life to always try to write what I know about. Edited October 30, 20187 yr by UTCzech III knowledge and shit
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