Friday 10 #7

The morning after blues, from my head down to my shoes

Edit: Make sure to check out Glen’s Friday 10!

Last week’s answers are up, four folks guessed eight. Nice to break the seven streak.

I dropped out of listening to popular music for a bit, especially pop country, so imagine my surprise when I found out many years later that the guy from Hootie and the Blowfish had become a huge star thanks to a cover of an Old Crow Medicine Show song. Not only that, but OCMS’s “Wagon Wheel” had become so popular to cover it’s become a punchline.

The OCMS song in the set of ten, “James River Blues,” is a favorite of mine because it turns the railroad song on its head. In this one, trains are the new technology destroying livelihoods, not an object of nostalgia.

“Whatever It Was” by Greg Brown is also a favorite of mine. Greg Brown’s been around for ages and reminds me a bit Tom Waits, James McMurtry, and Steve Earle. I loved this song when it came out. I was in my twenties, but have since grown into the cynicism.

My generation takes what it can get. Are you surprised the kids are all upset? They’re looking at nothing, nothing turns away and yawns

Enough talk! The rules:

1. No searchin’
2. Both song and artist, please
3. Covers OK if I can find ‘em

Now here’s ten lyrics I found while searching through the fragments of my dream-shattered sleep.

This week's lyrics:

1. Key Largo — Bertie Higgins
   Here's looking and you kid, missing all the things we did
   Guessed by: Lazlo Hollyfeld

2. Run On — Bill Landford and the Landfordaires, Blind Boys of Alabama, Odetta, Moby
   You might run on for a long time, run on duckin' and dodgin'
   Guessed by: Glen

3. Smooth Operator — Sade
   Across the North and South to Key Largo, love for sale
   Guessed by: Sidney

4. Get Lucky — Daft Punk
   We've come too far to give up who we are
   Guessed by: Ovi Demetrian Jr

5. Tulsa Time — Don Williams
   You know I've been through it when I set my watch back to it
   

6. Galileo — Indigo Girls
   Now I'm serving time for mistakes made by another in another lifetime
   Guessed by: Glen

7. P's and Q's — Kano
   I ain't got punch lines, I got kick lines
   

8. Brickyard Blues — 3 Dog Night
   Just let me lay back and grin like a monkey
   Guessed by: Frodis Caper

9. Dang Me — Roger Miller
   I spent the groceries and half the rent, like fourteen dollars and twenty-seven cents
   Guessed by: Sidney

10. This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody) — Talking Heads
    The less we say about it the better, make it up as we go along
    Guessed by: Ovi Demetrian Jr