Tuesday, July 12, 2011

While the band is playing “Dixie” I’ll be hummin’ “Home, Sweet Home”...

Hold your horses, it’s déjà vu all over again.

How to get in the mood for a trip to Alabama (3:28).

Any similarity between this and music is purely coincidental (2:36).

Not a banjo in the bunch (2:11).

But the main thing is, they all look so happy, don’t they?

[Sarcasm off]

6 comments:

  1. Mama Carter and the girls are really staying on the sunny side. One seldom sees such happy faces. Dear oh dear.
    I prefer Seasick Steve ;-)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC3rzgprN4w&feature=related

    Seriously. I'm guessing you might even like that song too.

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  2. Carolina, seriously, I do not care for either Seasick Steve or that song. But it's the thought that counts.

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  3. Seriously? I really thought... Ah well, there's no accounting for taste in music. Your taste in blogs is much better ;-)

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  4. Might I infer that you are Alabama bound? (I've never before heard that particular version; I'm familiar with "don't want no heebeejeebees hangin' round." I enjoyed listening to Mother Maybelle and various others. One YouTube video leads to another.

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  6. Pat, sorry for the delay in responding to your comment. Not only are we Alabama bound, we've been here since Tuesday. We'll be returning home this afternoon.

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