Friday, August 22, 2008

Song of the Day: Cocaine Blues

No Red Sox last night. And the Olympics featured a good deal of platform diving by very young, boyish Chinese women and being color commentated by a woman with a southern/Texan accent that was grating on me.

Luckily, I found documentary on PBS about Johnny Cash's legendary concert at Folsom Prison. Interesting--as noted by the producer during the fundraising break--that they'd be able to do a documentary about a concert when there is no video of the conert.

Anyway, this has always been my favorite track on the record. It's got a very straight forward rythm that just keeps on chugging. Not very complex, musically, but strong. And it supports the lyrics of the song very well. Here's a guy that knew how to sing his songs. (and knew the audience to sing them to)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This house is more of a "Boy Named Sue" kind of family. It gets played frequently!