What Album Have You Just Bought?

**Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:30 pm**

DBT are always compared to Skynryd, I think that's because their album "Southern Rock Opera" is about being fans when they were kids. They have the Southern accent, but I think I hear more Stones in the music and more mentioning of Southern Rock bands than anything else. But, then again, I am no kind of critic anyone should listen to! At any rate, I cannot get enough of them right now.

But, then you mentioned Camper Van Beethoven....yes. Next week on this thread I'll probably put them down, now that you've got me listening to them. I keep playing "Good Guys & Bad Guys". In the late 80's I was almost alone among my peers listening to CVB, so as Philip kind of said, that did work out for me and my self styled "cool-quotient"!

**Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:26 pm**

Quincy Dan wrote:DBT are always compared to Skynryd, I think that's because their album "Southern Rock Opera" is about being fans when they were kids. They have the Southern accent, but I think I hear more Stones in the music and more mentioning of Southern Rock bands than anything else. But, then again, I am no kind of critic anyone should listen to! At any rate, I cannot get enough of them right now.

But, then you mentioned Camper Van Beethoven....yes. Next week on this thread I'll probably put them down, now that you've got me listening to them. I keep playing "Good Guys & Bad Guys". In the late 80's I was almost alone among my peers listening to CVB, so as Philip kind of said, that did work out for me and my self styled "cool-quotient"!

Yes, all of my friends who recommend them are Stones fans. I'm a Stones FANATIC so I just need to listen to a different song.

Besides "Joe Stalin's Cadillac", there was also Michael Murphy's "Geronimo's Cadillac", and doggone it, I just think there are enough Cadillac songs. Although I do like the line about them being made out of fiberglass now.

CVB always cracked me up, as do their heirs, Cracker. (Hence the name???) "You are so beautiful - you should be guarded by monkeys."

As for what "album" I just bought - hee hee, it's funny that for most folks the term "album" is archaic, but in my case the "album" I just bought is almost always a 78. And the 78 I just bought was one of my favorite Hank Williams' songs - "Settin' The Woods On Fire":

Comb your hair and paint and powder
You act proud and I'll act prouder
You sing loud and I'll sing louder
Tonight we're setting the woods on fire

You're my gal and I'm your feller
Dress up in your frock of yeller
I'll look swell but you'll look sweller
Setting the woods on fire

We'll take in all the honkey tonks
Tonihgt we're having fun
Well show the folks a brand new dance
That never has been done

I don't care who thinks we're silly
You be daffy and I'll be dilly
We'll order up to bowls of chili
Setting the woods on fire

I'll gas up my hot rod stocker
We'll get hotter than a poker
You'll be broke but I'll be broker
Tonight we're setting the woods on fire

We'll sit close to one another
Up the one street and down the other
We'll have a time o brother
Setting the woods on fire

We'll put aside a little time
To fix a flat or two
My tires and tubes are doing fine
But the air is showing through

You clap hands and I'll start bowing
We'll do all the laws allowin
Tomorrow I'll be right back plowing
Setting the woods on fire

My other favorite is "Never Get Out Of This World Alive", which was on the charts the day Hank died. I need to get that one next. The only other Hank Sr 78 I have is "Ramblin' Man", which is amazing and creepy. Tom Waits covered that on the last date of his recent tour - I'd sure love to hear a bootleg of THAT!

**Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:39 pm**

Do not forget "Brand New Cadillac" by the Clash. I believe Dave Alvin did "Long White Cadillac" , covered also by Dwight Yoakam. Springsteen did a Cadillac song or two, and oh, yes, do not forget Johnny Cash getting his Caddy "One Piece at a Time." But why I am yapping about Caddy's when I own a Saturn is anyone's guess.

Oh, and "the Cadillac stood by the house, and the Yanks they were within" by some band I heard of.

I suppose there are thousands.

"We're just peeing on the side of the road in LBJ's Cadillac"

**Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:49 pm**

As for Tom Waits bootlegs, I found this link. Apparently he's all right with trading , but selling and buying is, as it should be, a no-no.

http://www.keeslau.com/TomWaitsSuppleme ... 20bootlegs?

Now, that's a long link.

**Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:59 pm**

Nobody knows the Straycats? They wrote "Look at that Cadillac"..

**Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:18 pm**

Actually....

http://www.caddydaddy.com/songs.htm

...there are a couple other songs about Cadillacs.

I was initially thinking about songs named "(Fill in Name)'s Cadillac" and thought there were enough of THOSE. I stand corrected - there are way too many songs about Cadillacs PERIOD.

Did you know Johnny Cash did a song called "Psychobilly Cadillac"?

**Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:54 pm**

I had the Stray cats song in my head, but couldn't place the band. That happens often enough in this head.

As for too many songs about cadillacs, too right. I think we have hi-jacked the thread for as long as is necessary, if not longer.

Now let's see about Thunderbirds...

**Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:00 pm**

"28 feet from bumper to bumper
The last of the sweet old time gas guzzlers
Hard to drive, harder to park
But when you do, somebody remarks

That's a mighty big car
That's a mighty big car
That's a mighty big car"

-Fred Eaglesmith - Mighty Big Car

one of the best Canadian singer/songwriters you've never heard of...

-although the fine, educated, music aficionados on THIS site are probably well acquainted with Fred.

**Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:57 am**

Inside In/Inside Out - The Kooks

**Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:12 pm**

Clash Jukebox - Various.

Put together by Paul Simenon, the originals of songs The Clash covered or played in soundchecks, Stagger Lee, Police & Thieves, Revolution Rock, etc - good stuff!

**Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:18 am**

MJ wrote:Clash Jukebox - Various.

Put together by Paul Simenon, the originals of songs The Clash covered or played in soundchecks, Stagger Lee, Police & Thieves, Revolution Rock, etc - good stuff!

I saw the track listing for that, looks like a quality listen.

Beastie Boys - The In Sound from Way out . Quality stuff.

**Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:24 am**

My Sweetheart and I are celebrating our 3rd anniversary this week.

I got her an Austrian import LP of Lucille Bogan stuff from 1923-1935 (including the unexpurgated "Shave 'Em Dry") and she got me the new Dolls disk w/the DVD.

One great thing about having a true soul mate - when I buy her something I know she'll love, I always love it too, and vice versa.

**Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:40 am**

i bought sams town-the killers

**Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:29 am**

O'Blivion wrote:...there are a couple other songs about Cadillacs...I stand corrected - there are way too many songs about Cadillacs PERIOD.

O'Blivion, if you have not ever listened to American Routes, you oughta: http://www.americanroutes.org/ . They play a variety of music, including some of that old timey stuff you like.

Some Cadillac tunes this evening:

Black Cadillac - Lightnin Hopkins
Cadillac Baby - Roy Brown
Lavender Cadillac - Maurice King & His Wolverines w/Bea Baker
Swing Low Sweet Cadillac - Dizzy Gillespie

**Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:31 pm**

O'Blivion wrote:My Sweetheart and I are celebrating our 3rd anniversary this week.

By the way, many happy wishes to you and your sweetheart on the occasion of your 3rd anniversary!

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