Tequila Cowboy wrote:"Rock and roll means well but it can't help telling young boys lies" isn't just a line in a song, it's an axiom.
I wouldn't be surprised to find a variation of it in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Those are words of wisdom applicable to so much more than rock and roll. Or young boys, for that matter.
The sooner we put those assholes in the grave&piss on the dirt above it, the better off we'll be
LastLawson wrote:And I've never understood the big to-do about Marry Me *ducks*.
I've been witness to it lifting a Truckers show up to the next level, probably on more than one occasion. Sometimes they can be slow to kick into gear, "Marry Me" often gets them there (though I've seen other songs do the same, like "Puttin' People On the Moon").
So far this is the only album they have released after I became a fan. I like it very much. Some great songwriting as been pointed out already in this thread, but I think it's the vibe and feel that does it for me, much the same way as with BTCD (although it's a different vibe and feel).
At the time it was released I had already started to take interest in late 60's/early 70's soul and r&b since a couple of years, and I think I heard traces of that influence in some of DBTs previous releases as well, maybe as far back as SRO. Difficult to pinpoint exactly but in between Cooley's sliding double stops, EZBs back-beat and Patterson's vocal melodies there is something. On GGB this manifests itself very clearly imo, especially with Shonna's bass playing.
I don't know if I've ever been as obsessed with a song as I was with Marry Me the first time I heard it. I hit "repeat" at least 6 times. I still remember exactly what I was doing (mowing waterways and a bin site) and where I was doing it (just west of the intersection of 70th Street and Holly Ave 4 miles northwest of Saratoga, IA).
I've heard Cooley say on some live recordings that The Weakest Man is about tryin to give up drinkin, but I'll agree that it's a good song bout anything you're tryin to kick.
GGB never clicked with me, I give them credit for trying another direction, and a few tracks are great, but it always felt a little disjointed. I'd heard Cooley do Pulaski and the Weakest Man on a bootleg from 2005, so it sort of bummed me out to see him throw in some old tunes rather than write something to match the mood of the album. (http://southernshelter.com/2008/04/mike ... att-22505/ ) I guess to me the album plays like a half finished rock opera with a few recycled tunes and covers to take up space. I think that if they hadn't been touring so heavily this album could have been flushed out a little better and it could have been great. To me it suffered from a few too many theatrical elements and not enough Cooley. I'll admit that while I thoroughly enjoy scantly clad ladies on stage, I was a bit confused by the dancers when they toured behind the album...
Marry Me Three on the Tree Self Destructive Zones Panties in Your Purse Love Like This
Barely_Oakely wrote:I've heard Cooley say on some live recordings that The Weakest Man is about tryin to give up drinkin, but I'll agree that it's a good song bout anything you're tryin to kick.
GGB never clicked with me, I give them credit for trying another direction, and a few tracks are great, but it always felt a little disjointed. I'd heard Cooley do Pulaski and the Weakest Man on a bootleg from 2005, so it sort of bummed me out to see him throw in some old tunes rather than write something to match the mood of the album. (http://southernshelter.com/2008/04/mike ... att-22505/ ) I guess to me the album plays like a half finished rock opera with a few recycled tunes and covers to take up space. I think that if they hadn't been touring so heavily this album could have been flushed out a little better and it could have been great. To me it suffered from a few too many theatrical elements and not enough Cooley. I'll admit that while I thoroughly enjoy scantly clad ladies on stage, I was a bit confused by the dancers when they toured behind the album...
Marry Me Three on the Tree Self Destructive Zones
Panties in Your Purse Love Like This
I agree that the super heavy touring or specifically touring behind two records back to back with no break caused both this one and the one before it to suffer. I've always sort of found it odd that Cooley used those old songs too.
I love this album and I really, really love Brad's playing throughout. So fucking soulful and musical and empathetic and so tight in the pocket. You don't get those kind of qualities without spending years on the road. You also don't learn how to tune your drums to sound so great by accident, with help from Barbe's crew of course. Brad's style and approach always reminds me of Charlie Watts' and I could see Brad filling in for Charlie, and vice versa, with ease. In my mind, the Truckers are Patterson and Cooley and Brad. Long live EZB!!! And long live GGB!!!
Gravity's Gone Ghost to Most Space City Daddy's Cup Checkout Time in Vegas
it's real hard to look at that list and not replace one or all of them with Zip City, Marry Me, Cartoon Gold, WWW, Birthday Boy and Eyes Like Glue Dambit, picking out your favorite Cooley songs is like having to decide which one is your favorite kid or favorite guitar
psychobillycadillac wrote:in no particular order....
Gravity's Gone Ghost to Most Space City Daddy's Cup Checkout Time in Vegas
it's real hard to look at that list and not replace one or all of them with Zip City, Marry Me, Cartoon Gold, WWW, Birthday Boy and Eyes Like Glue Dambit, picking out your favorite Cooley songs is like having to decide which one is your favorite kid or favorite guitar
Yeah, I could probably throw those in a cup, shake 'em out, and get a five song list of favorites I could fight for. Picking 'em myself, I couldn't do without Zip City and A Ghost to Most. After that, I get weaselly.
But deciding which kid is my favorite is easy. I tell my only child that she's my favorite daughter in the whole world. "But daddy, I'm your only daughter." Yes, but every woman is someone's daughter, so there are more than three billion daughters in the world, and you're my very favorite. "Okay."
The sooner we put those assholes in the grave&piss on the dirt above it, the better off we'll be
psychobillycadillac wrote:in no particular order....
Gravity's Gone Ghost to Most Space City Daddy's Cup Checkout Time in Vegas
it's real hard to look at that list and not replace one or all of them with Zip City, Marry Me, Cartoon Gold, WWW, Birthday Boy and Eyes Like Glue Dambit, picking out your favorite Cooley songs is like having to decide which one is your favorite kid or favorite guitar
Yeah, I could probably throw those in a cup, shake 'em out, and get a five song list of favorites I could fight for. Picking 'em myself, I couldn't do without Zip City and A Ghost to Most. After that, I get weaselly.
But deciding which kid is my favorite is easy. I tell my only child that she's my favorite daughter in the whole world. "But daddy, I'm your only daughter." Yes, but every woman is someone's daughter, so there are more than three billion daughters in the world, and you're my very favorite. "Okay."
I may have to steal that one from you still doesn't help me w/ my favorite guitar delima
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Tequila Cowboy Wrote: Danielle from American Pickers had her burlesque dancers on stage in Chicago. I thought it was great.
Was that her? The one on the right? I was at this show, and I remember giving one of the guys I drove down with a "WTF!?!" look when the dancers came out. Then laughing our asses off when we'd catch Cooley checkin them out instead of playin guitar - haha! You could tell he was thinkin the same thing we were, "What the hell are these gals doin on stage? Well, hell, it ain't so bad, at least they're fun to look at!"
--GGB sounds much better at night time. The later, the better. --Where's Eddie is Shonna's best lead vocal - by a wide margin - over all her other songs. --Used to be a Cop isn't top-shelf Patterson, but it's pretty close. Love how the guitars are wrapped almost as tight as the cop. Same goes for Ray's Automatic Weapon - love Neff's slide on it. --Fireplace Poker has grown on me and now I like it a lot. This here is the smoker... --All those shows they did on the Go Go Boots tour in the winter-spring of 2011 were fantastic - culminating in that great Letterman appearance. --Re Cooley's songs, The Weakest Man is a much better song ever since I learned that it's about drinking in the song of the week thread. But it still sounds a little too much like Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer. Pulaski is a great song. It could be a movie. Cartoon Gold - I know it's about L.A., but still don't really get it.
Can't remember which one of the Cooley solo shows (I think night two in Birmingham) but he said the catalyst and part of the inspiration behind the second half of Cartoon Gold was hanging out in a bar in LA wearing a pair of sunglasses hanging by one of the arms from his t-shirt and the pretentious ass who was bartending said something like "oh wearing sunglasses in a bar in LA, that's real original."
Cole Younger wrote:I don't get why Dancing Ricky was included here instead of I Hear You Hummin. To me the latter is a much better song. Maybe it was Shonnas choice.
Yeah man I'm with you. I Hear You Hummin' comes off the top rope and gives Dancing Rickey a suplex.
By the time you drop them I'll be gone
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life
still doesn't help me w/ my favorite guitar delima 
