ALBUM: The Lost Weekend (1985)
MVC Rating: 4.0/$$$
I’m in the D’s. Time to get down and dirty.
So apopros that my alphabetical system provokes me to take a look at Danny and Dusty.
This all-star band, well, maybe minor league all- star, has some gut-barrel, singalong barroom music on it. ‘D’ for drunk, maybe?
This is a buddy group with Dan Stuart from the band Green On Red and Steve (Dusty) from Dream Syndicate. Members of those bands and the Long Ryders were the backing band.
I have some Green on Red somewhere, maybe disc, and this is reminding me of some great songs they did in the 1980s ‘post-psychedelic movement’ in the SF Bay Area. (To be honest, Green on Red sounded more country punk to me.) One song, I can’t recall it’s name, had a line it about ‘working at the Piggly Wiggly’ — it always made me laugh. I’ll try to find the song and post.
Now I live a block away from a Piggly Wiggly. But I also lived in the Bay Area for a decade and don’t remember ever seeing a Pig there?
Anyway, D&D is a fun listen, probably recorded most songs in 1 or 2 takes. The Dylan cover of ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’ is a different take, and not bad. (Still my favorite cover of that song is probably Guns N’ Roses version, though I never was huge GNR fan—I felt like I was too old to enjoy them. Odd, b/c I like some Chili Peppers).
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease.