by The Duke of Ingmar Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:24 pm
Dunno if this has been posted yet. If it has - please forgive me.
A short excerpt from "The life and near death of Steve Earle":
"The celtic influence on the album continued with "Johnny come lately", a razor-sharp spin on the GI in London theme that Steve had written specifically because he wanted to work with Irish band the Pogues. He had met the band, once described as a cross between the Sex Pistols and the Chieftains, in London in 1987. The were recording "If I should fall from grace with god" at the time. A mutual fascination with Celtic and Appalachian music, serious partying, and each other meant that they soon became firm friends - hence, the reference to drinking Camden town dry.
"Johnny come lately" was recorded in mid-march at Livingstone Studios in London, with Chris Birkett engineering again and Neil MacColl on mandolin. Shane MacGowan turned up for hours late for the session.Touring with the Pogues a few months later in support of the album, Steve and the rest and the band would draw straws in the morning to see who would get the hard-living MacGowan out of his alcohol-fumed bunk. "When you pulled back the curtain, your eyebrows melted"."
Dunno if this has been posted yet. If it has - please forgive me.
A short excerpt from "The life and near death of Steve Earle":
"The celtic influence on the album continued with "Johnny come lately", a razor-sharp spin on the GI in London theme that Steve had written specifically because he wanted to work with Irish band the Pogues. He had met the band, once described as a cross between the Sex Pistols and the Chieftains, in London in 1987. The were recording "If I should fall from grace with god" at the time. A mutual fascination with Celtic and Appalachian music, serious partying, and each other meant that they soon became firm friends - hence, the reference to drinking Camden town dry.
"Johnny come lately" was recorded in mid-march at Livingstone Studios in London, with Chris Birkett engineering again and Neil MacColl on mandolin. Shane MacGowan turned up for hours late for the session.Touring with the Pogues a few months later in support of the album, Steve and the rest and the band would draw straws in the morning to see who would get the hard-living MacGowan out of his alcohol-fumed bunk. "When you pulled back the curtain, your eyebrows melted"."
