I'm almost wishing I hadn't sought out "Slow Ride Argument", because now I'm worried I'm going to play it out before the album rolls out... love it... has that feel of a Cooley classic... having said that, I haven't burned out on any of his other songs yet...

Would love to hear Whisper.

Iowan wrote:

Clams wrote:

Smitty wrote:I must be the only fan of Daylight and Easy on Yourself.

Iowan too. But it's the two of you against the rest of the world.

I thought I was the only one. Good to have you on the team, Smitty.

Nah, I'm here with you guys. Great songs.

Sorry for the duplicate thread... but looks like we were all on the same wave length. I grew up in Twin Lakes. Grandfather lives in Fox Lake. In Lake Geneva now... What's interesting is that, while this was going on, there was a separate manhunt affecting northern Lake County and Kenosha County... a...

Apologies if this is insensitive, but it's local for me and I've become a bit desensitized to it... But: I feel like we should be playing Drive by Trucker bingo with this cop out of Fox Lake, Illinois: 1. Cop/used to be a cop? check 2. Tried to hire someone to kill someone? Check 3. Betrayed the pub...

I was on a business trip in Austin... randomly looked up local shows Thursday night... HOLY SHIT, DBT in town. Finished up with client business and got to the venue 4 songs in... I'm guessing the set was a bit shorter because it was a (great) outdoor venue in a residential area. They finished right ...

With my pledge to buy numerous copies and promote tirelessly on the web: anyone got a PM?

That's good; funny, too. Hopefully I'm missing something in translation, being a Brit and all, but if the inference here is that Cooley is joking about hitting a woman why is that funny?[/quote] It is definitely a translation thing. "Hitting that" is an urban-American, hip-hop originated ...

They are not messing around...

Am I misreading this Instagram/Twitter post from last night?

http://instagram.com/p/ckeL93yqzS/

Elephant doesn't bring the water works. But I agree that, once fatherhood came, I turned into a blubbering idiot. Songs that do it: 1. Little Bonnie 2. Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife 3. Daughter by Loudon Wainwright 4. Wedding Song by Bob Dylan There are others... basically any dumb country song...

Regular lurker, coming out of the shadows for this. Man did this hit me hard today. What a supreme fucking talent.

This wasn't an official release, but for my money, this is one of the greatest marriages of song and video. Ever. A tough listen tonight.

http://youtu.be/D93xc7p_yKw

That "adorable fiddle player" Amanda Shires has two very strong solo albums of her own that people should check out: Carrying Lightning and West Cross Timbers...

Says it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D93xc7p_yKw

Fourth Night of My Drinking 18
Birthday Boy 41
The Wig He Made Her Wear 7
After The Scene Dies 36
Santa Fe 40
Girls Who Smoke 2

The strongest argument for Jason having the "best song on an album" would have to be Decoration Day - while that album is packed with classics from beginning to end, I think both Decoration Day and Outfit are the heart and soul of that album. "Where the Devil Won't Stay", "C...

"for granted"'s a mighty big word for a country girl like you...

Well my daddy didn't pull out, but he never apologized.
Rock n' Roll means well but it can't help telling young boys lies.

(With all due respect to all the wonderful members of the band - Cooley is the master wordsmith in the band)

I think lyrically it is one of his masterpieces. It's really the ultimate existentialist rock song...

As someone else said, this decade marks my time from 11 to 21, so a major formative phase... putting together a list will take some time... Having said that, I'm going to call shenanigans. I'm almost entirely ashamed of their work in the 00s, so it's hard to be too enthusiastic, but there's got to b...

LIVE - I'm embarrassed to watch the lead singer perform, but goddamn if Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper and Secret Samadhi isn't a great trio of albums from the mid 90s.

Half of The Distance to Here is decent - it all went to Adult Contemporary after that...

I would pay good money to see Cooley sing "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"

It is a testament to their talent and storytelling abilities that Chester feels a lot closer to us than he really was. Patterson paints such a compelling image of the man that you really feel like you know his character.

Surely a horrible loss - condolences to Patterson and the whole DBT family...

Keep your drawers on girl, it ain't worth the fight By the time you drop them I'll be gone and you'll be right where they fall for the rest of your life.[/i] Here is the first moment of self-awareness. He answers the question, "Why is he putting up with this shit in the first place." Well...

littlemamma wrote:you know what cooley would say right? about all this fuss? lol!!!

I don't speak spanish?

the more enigmatic line is the fact the brother "was the first born [who] got 10 fingers and 10 toes" Agreed that that's the more puzzling line. I take it to mean that the brother is "otherwise normal" (got 10 fingers and 10 toes just like the rest of us) despite being gay. I th...

What I'd like to know is, what does this guy really think he's going to do with it? It's not like he can put it up on EBAY or brag about it to friends?

Kudos to the band for not letting it demoralize them. They came out rocking on Friday night in L.A.

Looks like we were standing just about next to each other the whole night - I see the backs of some familiar heads... I must have been just a person or two over to your right.

There was a dude just to the right of me who had a camera running on a little mono-pod type deal for most of the show, so I suspect we'll get some youtube footage out of this one sooner or later. Live music and Bud Light in a can - that works for me. I was worried it was going to be an L.A. crowd wi...

Show was hot. Band was tight. Patterson seemed more animated to me than usual, which I loved... love Jay Gonzalez on keys... (not in order) 4th Night Drag the Lake Birthday Boy Tornadoes My Sweet Annette Women Without Whiskey Girls Who Smoke Three Dimes Down After the Scene Dies Ghost to Most Puttin...