The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11164 Message #82699
Posted By: bseed(charleskratz)
29-May-99 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hard Times (Come Again No More)
Subject: RE: hard times
Suzanne Thomas does a wonderful version of it on Dry Branch Fire Squad's "Live at Last" cd (and can that woman ever play clawhammer banjo! Unfortunately she wasn't with the band when they played in Berkeley Wednesday night--but the band is really a showpiece for the wonderful talent of Ron Thomason, as singer, songwriter, instrumentalist [mandoline and guitar{his banjo frailing doesn't quite suck}], and--of course--comedian (a friend of mine came to the show to see the opening act of Carol Elizabeth Jones and James Leva; he complained about Ron's long comic interruptions of the musical flow--I didn't tell him about Mudcat because he'd just add to the anti-BS population). How many layers of parenthetical remarks did I manage to stuff into that sentence? --seed