What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Randy's fourth album and the one that brought him commercial success, Intended to be a concept album about a redneck in the deep south. The deep south theme is maintained. The succes probably came from the controversy surrounding the leadoff track of Rednecks. Randy was good at satire. Some just don't get it. Actual events with real life characters scattered throughout this album. Ry Cooder plays on most of these with the Eagles, Frey, Henley, and Leadon showing up for background vocals on Everyman A King (a Huey Long composition), which happens to be at the bottom of my list . My favorite is a track called A Wedding In Cherokee County. Other great tracks are Rednecks, Birmingham, and Louisiana 1927. All classics, but for some reason that Wedding thing stood out for me this listen. Just misses the love mark and a close call. The album made it to #36 on the Billboard charts with no charting singles. Felt like I was watching Monk.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Everyman A King

Best Track - A Wedding In Cherokee County

There she is sitting there
Out behind the smoke-house in her rocking chair
She don't do nothin'
She don't say nothin'
She don't feel nothin'
She don't know nothin'
Maybe she's crazy, I don't know
But maybe that's why I love her so

Her papa was a midget
Her mama was a whore
Her grandad was a newsboy 'til he was eighty-four
Man don't you think I know she hates me
Man don't you think I know that she's no good
If she knew how she'd be unfaithful to me
I think she'd kill me if she could
Maybe she's crazy I don't know
But maybe that's why I love her so

I'm not afraid of the greywolf
Who stalks through our forest at dawn
As long as I have her beside me
I have the strength to carry on

Today we will be married
And all the freaks that she knows will be there
And all the people from the village will be there
To congratulate us
I will carry her across the threshold
I will make dim the light
I will attempt to spend my love within her
But though I try with all my might
She will laugh at my mighty sword
She will laugh at my mighty sword
Why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword?
Lord, hep me if you will
Maybe we're both crazy, I don't know
Maybe that's why I love her so

1) Rednecks ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGw_vAnqPI
2) Birmingham ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syB4n6vYBc4
3) Marie **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtVZjVj2Dc
4) Mr. President (Have Pity On The Workingman) **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOyoF9NXvqY
5) Guilty **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxYTILdWRaU
6) Louisiana 1927 ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED8AxNXwY_U
7) Every Man A King **
8) Kingfish **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmFQu_8u1TU
9) Naked Man **
10) A Wedding In Cherokee County ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2iEGlOxTUM
11) Back On My Feet Again **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDMxgpfot9A
12) Rollin' **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOa4pGPmDzM

3's - 4
2's - 8
1's - 0

Grade - 2.3