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| Making Singles and Drinking Doubles | |
| Released 12/10/2002 | |
| CD, Bloodshot Records | |
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Bloodshot
Records will release Making Singles and Drinking Doubles on
December 10th. The 100th release by the Chicago label will feature rare
and unreleased songs from the likes of Ryan Adams, Neko Case, Jon
Langford, the Sadies and Kelly Hogan.
Included in the disc's seventeen tracks
are a pair of songs from Adams's recording sessions for Heartbreaker
-- his 2000 release on Bloodshot --- the unreleased "Goodbye
Honey," and an acoustic reading of the album track "To Be
Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)."
A former publicist for Bloodshot -- who has since recorded two albums
for the label -- Hogan landed a pair of cuts on the compilation: A cover
of the Loretta Lynn-popularized Hanky Panky Woman and
"1,000,001" which she wrote as an answer song to the Sadies'
"One Million Songs."
"I was listening to that song one night," Hogan says.
"And I kept running it back, 'Did Dallas [singer Good] really
just thank that woman for spreading his seed?' So I called him up at 2
a.m. He answered and said, yes, he was saying that in the song. So I
asked if I could write an answer song -- which is an oddball genre of
music that I love, all the way back to [Kitty Wells'] 'It Wasn't God Who
Made Honky Tonk Angels,' -- from the seed carrier's POV. Dallas thought
that was a great idea. My song is exactly the same in chord progression
as theirs -- but it's in a higher key for me and extra fast. The
arrangement is slightly different. And the lyrics start off very
similar, and then take the dude to task for spending his money on speed
instead of Pampers."
Among the other tracks included is "The Madonna Trilogy,"
Austin-based bluegrass ensemble the Meat Purveyors' take on "Like a
Virgin," "Lucky Star" and "Burning Up." And the
Waco Brothers take a crack at Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They
Come." |
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