Thursday, March 3, 2011

Homework - Philosophy and Country Music with Rosalie Sorrels

It's not every night we drink from drains and play Sublime Frequencies LPs, so...     tonight is not going to be another night like that.  Some nights we stick to traditional potable liquids and study. This brings me to philosophy and country music, they go well together.
Philosophy demands a bit more attention than some other subjects, with frequent rereads and head scratches you might be reaching for a cupjar of toilet water - but so does a lot of country music lyrics: "Hold on to your lampshade darlin' 'cause I'm lookin' for a hat", "I'm gonna' make her love me till a rock ain't stone", "I drink therefore I am" - yes, that's some real good cowboy philosophy!
This isn't just your 50's -70's country writing, it's going on today: "Home was anywhere there was diesel gas, love was a truckers hand", "I can't love you when there isn't enough love to be had again" - what does that even mean?  I don't know.

This is all too deep for me at the moment, but here here are a few tracks from a great but hard to find 6th LP by Rosalie Sorrels. For all you country music lovers, I'd put this in your non-pathetic outlaw country section because Sorrels is occasionally lonesome but always a strong woman on this album, never once crying to mama or in her beer, nor counting the days till she dies - because she's a Travelin Lady. 

Rosalie Sorrels / Travelin' Lady / Sire Records / SI 5902   / 1972 

Lovin' of the Game

He Doesn't see Me

All I Ever Do is Say Goodbye






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