{"id":4825,"date":"2018-01-27T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cars-trucks-and-roads-with-numbers\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T17:32:07","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cars-trucks-and-roads-with-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cars-trucks-and-roads-with-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cars, Trucks, and Roads with Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary U. S. Bonds, From a Buick 6<\/a>.  Wow! Undoubtedly the best cover of the Dylan number. And better than the original. Sorry, Bob. Bonds had a number of hits in the early '60s such as Twist, Twist, Senora<\/a>. Cute video. The girls look like they stepped out of the '40s. They remind me of my aunts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beach Boys, 409<\/a>. With a four-speed manual tranny, dual quad carburetors (before fuel injection), positraction (limited slip differential), and 409 cubic inches of engine displacement.  Gas was cheap in those days. <\/span><\/p>\n

Red Sovine, Phantom 309<\/a>. Tom Waits' version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

YouTuber Tom Foyle comments, feelingly, with remarks that apply just as well if not more to Sovine's effort:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don't know what it is about this particular Tom Waits song. Out of all the music I've heard, this is the only one that tears me up from the first chord. I'm a big boy, all grown-up. But I'm helpless to stop those tears. I've seen my fair share, and more, of pain and suffering and death, and so should be fairly immune to such sentimentality. Many songs are supposedly more tear-jerking, ("Honey" springs immediately to mind), but NOT ONE moves me like this. Maybe because I used to hitch-hike a lot? Maybe because I've seen, and been involved in, several car accidents? Maybe because a trucker friend was drowned when the ferry he was travelling on sunk? I don't know. I've always appreciated, and liked a lot, Tom Waits' compositions and performances, and yet this one song captures me completely, emotionally. Perhaps I'm turning into a softy. More likely, I'm just getting too old for this life. Answers on a postcard, please . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Asleep at the Wheel, Route 66<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Winter, Highway 61 Revisited<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, Rocket 88<\/a>. First R & R song? Featuring footage and 'leggage' of Miss Bettie Page.  What ever happened to her? She<\/a> 'got religion' in the end. <\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy Mattea, 455 Rocket<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE (1\/29). A U. K. reader\/listener recommends Junior Brown's cover<\/a> of 409 in which the aging Beach Boys sing backup. Brown wields a curious hybrid axe, half steel guitar and half 'regular' guitar. An amazing, and very satisfying shitkicker redneck version. Check it out! Amazing the stuff the Dark Ostrich digs up from the vasty deeps of the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gary U. S. Bonds, From a Buick 6.  Wow! Undoubtedly the best cover of the Dylan number. And better than the original. Sorry, Bob. Bonds had a number of hits in the early '60s such as Twist, Twist, Senora. Cute video. The girls look like they stepped out of the '40s. They remind me of … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cars, Trucks, and Roads with Numbers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}