My band Bald Cow will perform at Jimmy’s, in beautiful Hyde Park (near the University of Chicago) this Saturday, July 14, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. This is only our second show since 1990. Our 2004 show was “reviewed” here. We have practiced a few times and I think I can hit most of the notes. (Our MySpace page has some songs recorded back in 1990, and two videos from the 2004 show.) The musical style is traditional 1970s punk rock, with some pretensions to grandiosity.
Music
Bleeding Maroon
A local hit seems appropriate on Memorial Day. Sent out to those Aggies, still going to the wild & heavy places duty calls: Granger Smith’s “We Bleed Maroon.” Rough version (originally bootleged on local stations). Lyrics.
There late at night if I listen real close
The spirit still whispers through the crooked live oaks
I hear my father and his dad before
And all those brave Aggies who never came back from war
Cool from when cool was cool
A short clip of the late, great Anita O’Day.
Fred & Sawyer Brown
Some go to Montaigne for them, some to Ben Franklin. Certainly Poor Richard’s “God helps them that helps themselves” fits a philosophy that is libertarian economically but hawkish internationally. Ron Paul seems not to understand that Franklin’s observation is hardly an argument for isolationism, though it is for libertarian economics.
Of course, not all recognize the richness of the axioms of country music but Fred Thompson won my heart if not yet my vote when I read Liz Garrigan’s piece:
Shortly after I wrote in 2000 that Thompson bears a striking resemblance to the Klingon “Star Trek” character Worf — high forehead, wide nose and a hairline that exposes a bald top (Google it) — a package from the then-unmarried senator arrived in the mail. It was a picture of Worf that Thompson had signed with this message: “In the immortal words of Sawyer Brown, some girls don’t like boys like me. Ah, but some girls do.”