"that's how i got to memphis" is about as good as anything else ever

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srsly. KILLS ME. especially when he gets to that "I know if you’d seen her you’d tell me ’cause you are my friend" part.

never heard the bobby bare version. is it good? i'd imagine it probably is.

― i (teenagequiet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah. but Roz Cash pwns it for me. Tom T Hall is sooo god.

"if you love somebody enough/you'll follow wherever they go"

― m coleman (lovebug ), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, have we had a Tom T. Hall thread? I need a place to rep for "Homecoming."

― A Radio Picture (Factory Sample Not For Sale), Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

yes it's as good as anything ever. so is homecoming -- so much buried inside that song. i need to get some more tom t. i've got just one collection, plus that tribute album to him, which is completely great. kelly willis' version of "memphis" on there kills.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Monday, 1 January 2007 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That really is a great tribute album. "Coffee Coffee Coffee" is really good as well as Calexico doing "Tulsa Telephone Book".

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 1 January 2007 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link

that is a fantatic album, johnny cash starts it off, and it goes up hill from that---tulsa telephone book, though is my favourite, because it is perhaps the saddest and msot quixotic thing,

that and margies at the lincoln park in, with all of the pleasure of sex, and domestic comfort, and how he holds both of those in his hand at the same time,

― FUCKTHISSHIT (JACKLOVE), Monday, 1 January 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Solomon Burke's version on his new record is rivetting.
Mothra: get The Rhymer and Other Five and Dimers and In Search of a Song. Songwriting doesn't get any better and Jerry Kennedy's sound isn't too shabby either.

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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