29 June 2013

"Methamphetamine" - Old Crow Medicine Show (redux; studio version)




Since Ronnie Van Zandt of Lynyrd Skynyrd died, I have been waiting for someone to pick up this fallen torch and run with it. Neil Young has kept the flame alive -- take the acoustic version of "Keep On Rockin' in the Free World" from his album Freedom, for example -- but now Ronnie's heirs are on the job.

Old Crow Medicine Show
will. "... [r]ock You Like A Hurricane, Meth-am-pheta-meeeen" -- and this story is set in the poorest part of Appalachia, with roots down to northern Florida. You can beat the South at Appomattox, but stubborn hillbillies, crackers and rednecks (me included) just won't sign up for most of the Yankee agenda.

It's only too late if you think it is -- give a spin to "Mother's Little Helper" (Stones), "That Smell" (Lynyrd Skynyrd), "Keep on Rockin'" by Neil, and "Meth" by our young Medicine Show friends. And "Don't Forget this fact, we can't get [David Ruffin] back, Cocaine." (-- J.J. Cale classic song broken by me to honor the late Temps lead singer.

In this drug war, just who is the enemy? Eh?

2 comments:

whiteray said...

Thanks for pointing me this direction. We cannot forget, however, the great exhortation first from Brother Ray, later from Joe Cocker and the MD&E, and in the middle-time from Big Mama Thornton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spkcAjt-TKU

Paco Malo said...

I wanna party with Big Mama Thornton. That's one soulful track.