Can't work out if Conrad's a Jimmy Buffett fan or not, but Christopher Caldwell's not, and neither am I. Buffett's no better than Michael Murphey, Mac Davis, John Denver, Stevie Forbitt or any of the other light-weight, light-beer pop folkies. It's appalling stuff, really irritating. As someone once said to me: "The Greatful Dead for drunken lawyers".
Anyway, enough of that fraud.
If you want to listen to an album of REAL, proper, honest to goodness, glass and a half full cream country/rocky/folky/drinky/funny songs look no further....
Have Moicy by Michael Hurley, Jeffery Fredericks and the Clamtones and The Unholy Modal Rounders. Have Moicy is a pizza with the lot. Along with the ham, pineapple and double anchovies it comes complete with bank robbing, talking insects, fatty hamburgers, heart attacks, jail, beer, wine, eating, smoking, shitting, crying, fighting, bar stools, beer goggles and the Klan.
Get it!
Going "Have Moicy" one further, Jeffrey Fredericks tweaked and twisted that pizza into some kind of musical moibus strip (complete with several extra pounds of laughter). Alas, he was too busy living and making music to record much (except the soon-to-be-reissued "Spiders in the Moonlight"). Lucky for everyone, his widow, Kathryn, has been rounding up his best recorded performances and releasing them on her Frederick Productions label. Last Fall's "Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones B.C." is a brilliant, hilarious, poignant, rollicking, two-CD set from a Vancouver, B.C. radio broadcast in 1976 that includes his versions of many songs from "Have Moicy" and a lot more. Earlier this year, the rest of that concert was released, "Steve Weber & The Holy Modal Rounders, B.C." Check em out.
By the way, Jeff was the grand-nephew of the legendary American bank robber, Willie Sutton -- the one who allegedly answered the question, "Why do you rob banks?" with "Because that's where the money is."
Posted by: DeHypnotist | 12 April 2006 at 04:11