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For more discussion of that song, read my old post called "The Anxiety Clown."
July 19, 2018
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For more discussion of that song, read my old post called "The Anxiety Clown."
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This isn't absurd enough. They should lean into these annotations even harder. There should be annotations nested within the annotations too. And within those annotations? You guessed it, more annotations.
First time I heard it, I thought it was a reference to Fort Knox. (Yes I know it's in Kentucky).
Why couldn't her womb wander?
The song is a favorite. The annotation is as stupid as I would expect,.
Considering how much time he must have taken in his roaming, she's awfully patient. She should have dumped him after the second verse and moved on.
I thought it was a reference to Jack Daniels. You could probably buy JD in Boston in 1974, but Boston and MA had some seriously restrictive liquor laws (even complete dry areas) back then. Colorado had and has even stupider liquor laws - good luck buying any JD at Safeway! If you like Jack Daniels, do not move to MA or CO.
I always thought Tennessee Ernie Ford was the man from Tennessee.
If you ask Larry Gatlin, it's in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills.
Do some states allow hard liquor sales in supermarkets?
Everywhere I know, it's either in separate or state-run stores. Come to think of it, they should be encouraging eating with drinking.
I was about to say he might be autistic, but the annotator didn't explain the double negative.
Do some states allow hard liquor sales in supermarkets?
Nevada does, although you get a better deal at liquor stores. There's an effort in Minnesota to allow wine sales in supermarkets, but it's being resisted.
Do some states allow hard liquor sales in supermarkets?
California
Florida just allowed it, but largest food chain, Publix, said they will keep the separate but equal and proximate storefronts. Bet that will change when leases run out.
Tennessee Williams was The Poof from Tennessee.
He was probably a jerk, yet some woman's GBF.
Illinois and Louisiana allow liquor sales in grocery stores. A lot of states that prohibit it, it is more due to the efforts of independent liquor stores lobby than any moral concern. That is certainly the case in New York.
“The song is a favorite. “
All time Tearjerker Country classic.
I purchase most of my liquor at the Kroger store (Michigan).
Tearjerker Country is almost redundant.
All time has to be "Lucille."
A road trip from Wisconsin to Louisiana buying liquor in small town groceries all along highway 61. Can you my darling can you picture this?
Literalists, forever attempting to ruin art and music.
-sw
In AZ you can buy pretty much any liquor (including Tennessee Gold) you want in big grocery stores (Safeway) and in Costco. Not sure if still the case, but some grocery stores in Sun City Arizona (the retirement community) used to have liquor departments larger than the produce section.
My Harris-Teeter has wood paneling and fancy lighting in the extra-wide beer and wine aisle.
On the afternoon of my grandmother's funeral, the Step-Monster sent my dad to the ABC store for the ingredients for a Sloe Comfortable Screw. She rarely drank otherwise, so it was just a show of power. Wish I'd killed the bitch that day, sure wanted to.
Also, "number one fan of the man from Tennessee" seems (pretty obviously) to be a reference to
the great Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel.
That's where you two should retire. Tennessee!
When I moved to NC from MA 11 years ago, the first thing I noticed was that they sell beer EVERYWHERE, wine, too. Gas stations, convenience stores, grocery stores, bait shops (seriously). But liquor is severely restricted. All state-run stores, all with limited selection, limited hours, very few "Sales" or Specials.
Pretty sure "ain't no gold" is - while, sure, still a metaphor for A Better Life - a reference not to the impossibility of purchasing gold, but rather to "gold" in the sense of the Gold Rush.
"No easily acquired bounty".
The first two sentences of this annotation are entirely superfluous. Also I'm not clear on the utility of annotating the lyrics of an eminently forgettable song from nearly 50 years ago, but I suppose that's the Internet for you.
The Internet is full of retards. Most things are, but who knew they had so much free time?
In the 50s when I was a kid nobody was singing or talking about songs from 50 year previous (i.e. c. 1905) and radio stations weren't playing songs from 50 years previous. Weird.
Also weird: B-52s are STILL in active service.
Fun fact: Dave Loggins is related to Kenny Loggins (second cousin, I think)
Here is another song that was popular then:
They put Geronimo in jail down south
Where he couldn't look a gift horse in the mouth
Sergeant, Sergeant, don't you feel
There's something wrong with your automobile?
Governor, Governor, now aint it strange
They didn't have no cars on the Indian range?
Warden, Warden, listen to me
Be brave and set Geronimo free
Whoa, boys, take me back
I wanna ride in Geronimo's Cadillac
Warden, Warden, don't you know
That prisoners have no place to go?
Took Old Geronimo by storm
Ripped off the feathers from his uniform
Jesus tells me, I believe it's true
The red man is in the sunset too
Took all their land and they wont give it back
Sent Geronimo a Cadillac
-sw
LincolnTf, restaurants couldn't serve alcohol in NC until the 80's, and that was each county's choice. There may still be some totally dry counties, but I doubt it.
"In the 50s when I was a kid nobody was singing or talking about songs from 50 year previous (i.e. c. 1905) and radio stations weren't playing songs from 50 years previous. Weird."
Or evidence that current songs and song writers aren't very good.
-sw
when I was a kid nobody was singing or talking about songs from 50 year previous
Hmmmmmyn... Not sure about that.
I liked the Jackopierce version of "Please Come to Boston" a lot. But I liked everything Jackopierce did, and I don't generally care for folky accustic music much.
Martin Luther Baseball orders Brewers' Josh Hader into 'sensitivity training'
Lynchburg, TN where they make Jack Daniels is in a dry county. At least it was dry 25 years ago. So, they could sell it wholesale (as I understand it) but not retail.
And in South Carolina all liquor is sold at red dot stores, they are not (to my knowledge) state owned, as I understand it each person (or corporate entity) is allowed to own no more than one liquor store. So Costco (presumably) has it's one liquor store in the Upstate. The Costco in Columbia has a liquor store with a separate entrance with a different name owned by a different party. Also the red dot stores have to close at some ealry hour like 7pm.
This suggests that "the man from Tennessee" is the composer of the song.
I lost a man to southern California, and his thoughts were captured perfectly by the song: Please come to LA, and live forever....
Always thought it was Acapulco Gold.
We may never know.
And I said:
Hey unwoke girl, take some CBD to settle down
Goddamn that Anxiety Clown
And his uncaring wife in her treason gown
You got to get out of Tennessee
So please come to Boston
And be treasonous with me.
Now I've got the words "Anxiety Clown" stuck in my brain to the tune of Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy.
There is indeed gold in Boston, American champagne is actually sparkling white wine, and the thing many people call a vagina is technically a vulva.
I thought it was a David Allen Coe original.
Fooled again.
"... an eminently forgettable song from nearly 50 years ago, but I suppose that's the Internet for you."
No no, that's you for the internet I suppose (forgotten unlike the song in 50 years that is).
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