There’s nothing quite like an El Camino with an eight-track stereo
Elizabeth Cook, a woman with some rather odd ties to Georgia and Atlanta, opens tonight at the Variety for the very funny, witty Todd Snider.
Most of Snider’s material isn’t suitable for posting on this blog, but go look him up — you’ll enjoy the sense of humor.
But back to Cook. She grew up in Florida, the daughter of a moonshiner and welder who learned the latter craft serving time at the federal penitentiary here in Atlanta, just a few miles from where she’ll be playing tonight. She’s a graduate of Georgia Southern, with degrees in accounting and computer information systems. I’ve seen her refer to herself as a math geek who took calculus classes in college for fun, and because she thought they’d be an easy “A”.
Here she is, a hard-to-categorize musician performing her ode to another classic American eccentricity, the El Camino:
– Jay Bookman
Tell us what you think about the site
Customer Care »
Vacation stops, manage subscriptions and more
AJC Services
Sections
Other Editions
Visitor Agreement | Privacy Statement
© 2013 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
445 comments Add your comment
Logical Dude
January 4th, 2013
3:47 pm
Music! Yay!
Logical Dude
January 4th, 2013
3:48 pm
And I get Friday Firsties again.
It’s what I get for working all day and taking a moment to refresh and see a new blog instead of getting caught up in discussions of who will or will not be a dog in the fiscal cliff / country debt / gotta do something debates.
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
3:49 pm
Our own Godless Heathen is going to this show, apparently. Perhaps he’ll check in with a capsule review later.
Jm
January 4th, 2013
3:51 pm
In honor of Sandy Hook
Jack Johnson: cookie jar
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=AbQqkqQMWgw
josef
January 4th, 2013
3:53 pm
Okay, if you say so…but at least it’s FNM…that’s a good thing…
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
3:57 pm
An El Camino? Bill Clinton used to own one.
Speaking to a group of GM employees, Clinton joked, “It had astro-turf in the back. I don’t want to tell you what the astro-turf was for.”
josef
January 4th, 2013
4:02 pm
If it’s eight track memories…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
4:02 pm
Off topic, but not overtly political anyway–I’ve thought of Tarantino as kind of a one-joke bore, but this piece by Amanda Marcotte has me thinking I might want to see Django after all.
Quentin Tarantino has probably watched every implausible, silly Western that American audiences have eaten up for decades, and he’s now making a movie that lays down a challenge: Can you suspend your disbelief for a former slave character as well as you can for the fantastical versions of former Confederates, outlaws, and gunslingers we’ve all watched before? If you can watch a movie like “Gone With the Wind” that whitewashes history, why not watch one that does so for the good guys, for once?
(I seem to recall a few of the regulars here have seen the film already, figured they might find this take somewhat interesting, anyway.)
/drive-by
JamVet
January 4th, 2013
4:03 pm
One of the funkier cats to do a killer car song…
Hey now mama
Where’d you stay last night
Your hair’s all down,
Your clothes don’t fit you right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJJvyPXPssg
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
4:05 pm
Pretty.
Dreadful voice.
skipper
January 4th, 2013
4:05 pm
I kid you not….my ex ‘bro-in-law had one in high-school……8-track and all!!!!!!!!!!!
Georgia
January 4th, 2013
4:06 pm
By the way, I’m listening to the video with bose headphones I got at best buy for 134 bucks. makes all the difference in the world. worth every penny.
josef
January 4th, 2013
4:12 pm
more eight track memories…it was drug related…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgcYfKw0_TI
josef
January 4th, 2013
4:16 pm
K’CHAK
@ 4:05
I second that emotion…
getalife
January 4th, 2013
4:16 pm
My 72 GTO had 8 track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5kv8QeBBc
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 4th, 2013
4:18 pm
I’m headed out for this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x_wtP3j38M
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
4:21 pm
Common Sense isn’t very Common
How was your holiday visit to N.C.? (Was it you that was coming down here?)
TBS
January 4th, 2013
4:21 pm
getalife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8fZeaUHsjw
josef
January 4th, 2013
4:22 pm
and one more here….eight track playing all your favorite sounds…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSQAlfyaKyc
getalife
January 4th, 2013
4:24 pm
Both,
Wore this one out too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SlYrU9EwLE
Browncoat
January 4th, 2013
4:26 pm
Uhhh, she’s not very good.
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 4th, 2013
4:29 pm
Kam
It was great, but too short (had to get back for work).
New Years here it snowed like hell here.
But while there I was able to partake of some real NC homebrew
Kick ass and tasted of plums LOL
barking frog
January 4th, 2013
4:30 pm
getalife
I had a 67 GTO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FSicQWimU
Nunna Yobinnes
January 4th, 2013
4:31 pm
“Should you stop beating your wife?”
Should you stop wetting your bed?
josef
January 4th, 2013
4:32 pm
okay…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTheG–2NE0
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
4:33 pm
But while there I was able to partake of some real NC homebrew
Damn, lucky dog!
JamVet
January 4th, 2013
4:35 pm
Here I’m freezin’ my tookus off and jonix links that awesome War song. That’s not right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM0T9fumD5k
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 4th, 2013
4:36 pm
cruising in the 67 camaro and listening to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZGEF3SpSw
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 4th, 2013
4:38 pm
Kam
still have some left for my next visit or I can order more LOL
JamVet
January 4th, 2013
4:41 pm
My buddy in high school had a reel to reel player and had hours of Buffalo Springfield music.
Such an innocent time…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YdRP-9BOiE
td
January 4th, 2013
4:41 pm
Nothing like riding in a rag top cad with a beautiful woman and totally young and in love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV0rQnQW3sI
josef
January 4th, 2013
4:44 pm
ZamVet
Well, i WAS dredging up eight track memories…
But back atcha on the Janis, and, yeah I loved them all, but this one, somehow is my eight track memory…all of us piled into Funky Fedora on the way to NOLA…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTHRg_iSWzM
and then on a happier note… making sure we patted Fedora’s dash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORGaACYbAk0
Soothsayer
January 4th, 2013
4:45 pm
She can change the oil in my El Camino. Singing? No so much.
Them damned El Caminos didn’t have no back seat! Unless of course you count the bed of the pickup.
Now, if you’re looking for some real singing, try this.
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 4th, 2013
4:46 pm
Kam
If I wasn’t careful this coulda happened (not saying it didn’t mind you)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDIrJkNE4Jk&list=AL94UKMTqg-9AZ56u9b8waCISjmUICeSBp
TaxPayer
January 4th, 2013
4:51 pm
Here’s the complement to that ever popular song, “You can’t have a pair and be a Republican.”
josef
January 4th, 2013
4:52 pm
ZamVet
Reel to reel…story behind that Essex earlier and why I said it was drug related…had a bud back in the dayl, super-super genius, got all kinds of scholarships to Ivy League,..he went, realized, he said, that no matter what he did, he’s still be a colored boy from Mississippi in their eyes. He came home, put “Rock On” on reel-to-reel, and sat on the front porch smoking his joint and listening to it over and over and over…then one day he just got up and went…never knew where, but wherever, “rock on…”
JamVet
January 4th, 2013
4:58 pm
She just has one of those little girl voices. With a twang.
jonix, great story. Hope the cat found his way to wherever he was going…
From the 8-track era…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M
Soothsayer
January 4th, 2013
4:59 pm
Tax @ 4:51: WOW! She can sing! Please accept my apologies!
Soothsayer
January 4th, 2013
5:01 pm
How long before she’s doing the intro to Monday Night Football?
DebbieDoRight - Cons can’t win with a base that is at war with math, physics, human biology, economics and common-sense gun laws all at the same time.
January 4th, 2013
5:05 pm
I thought this was funny when I read it! Not music I know, but…….you gotta laugh sometimes to stop from crying!
Trent Arsenault of Fremont has fathered 14 children since he began donating sperm in 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday.
However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told the man to stop giving away his sperm, or face charges.
Arsenault contends he’s being targeted by the FDA because he has a Web site that promotes himself and his willingness to donate his sperm.
“What the FDA is doing infringes on reproductive rights. The government is reaching into the bedroom,” Arsenault said. “There’s no precedence for my case. Whatever happens to me kind of sets the future up for all the other people in these situations — the couples plus the donors.”
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/12/19/Sperm-donor-feeling-heat-from-feds/UPI-53151324330263/#ixzz2H2yJ8JJx
getalife
January 4th, 2013
5:10 pm
Hagel is nominated for defense.
josef
January 4th, 2013
5:12 pm
ZamVet
I heard, but don’t know, that he went to Alaska and drove a truck during the building of the pipeline…I’d like to think that’s what happened…
Jay
January 4th, 2013
5:14 pm
Sooth, ideally I would have posted that song linked by Taxpayer, but the lyrics made that impossible.
Yes, she can sing.
getalife
January 4th, 2013
5:15 pm
Oops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZru4JG_Uo
josef
January 4th, 2013
5:15 pm
DDR
Well, well, well…ain’t that a b*tch…!
Bon'Quisha
January 4th, 2013
5:21 pm
Cool lyrics, musical range not so much. Afraid I’d have a tough time sitting through an entire concert.
Brad Steel
January 4th, 2013
5:21 pm
great choice, jay. real country and so much better than the nauseating crap that passes as country. her life story is fascinating too (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126832559)
love this one, ‘heroine addict sister’. apparently true story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFArKWnFWIg
Jay
January 4th, 2013
5:24 pm
“Hagel is nominated for defense.”
I wish I’d been there when they broke the news to Bibi.
Atlanta Mom
January 4th, 2013
5:24 pm
So, can we expect to see you at the Variety tonight Jay?
Jay
January 4th, 2013
5:25 pm
ATLMom, you might. My girl has been feeling under the weather, though, so we’ll see how she’s feeling when she gets home.
josef
January 4th, 2013
5:32 pm
BIG DADDY
Bibi, hell, I wish I’d've been a fly on the wall when the Log Cabin boys got the word…them’s gonna be some po’d que*ns…Brother Barack better get some evolving ready!
josef
January 4th, 2013
5:38 pm
Not to mention, they “aggressive!”
getalife
January 4th, 2013
5:40 pm
Bibi going to win his election?
josef
January 4th, 2013
5:49 pm
getalife
Reuters seems to think so…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
5:53 pm
For Kyle, who’s leaving an open thread all weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9GBR3B0LE
josef
January 4th, 2013
5:59 pm
K’CHAK
He’s gonna regret that….
Dunwoody Granny
January 4th, 2013
6:03 pm
TD@4:41:
Back in the El Camino days, one of my friends had an MGB, British racing green, a car that made you step up to the curb when you got out. We were teenage girls, our hair came down to about 5 or 6 inches above the hem of our hotpants, and we were just too special tooling around in that cute little car with her blond hair and my dark hair streaming out behind us! Yeah, totally young.
Now my hair isn’t even dark any more. Sigh.
getalife
January 4th, 2013
6:03 pm
josef,
Good for Bibi.
I read Senator Kirk said when he died from his stroke, he saw two angels fighting for his life.
JamVet
January 4th, 2013
6:15 pm
Kam & jo,
Yep, Dave or one of the other miscreants will screw it up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvRmBUEwtZg
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
6:20 pm
Brother AmVet
The over/under for shut down has already been set for 10:00 pm tonight.
getalife
January 4th, 2013
6:27 pm
“So don’t screw it up!”
Kyle scolds them like children.
Sad.
josef
January 4th, 2013
6:28 pm
getalife
Not to go to political of a Friday, but I’m looking forward to this confirmation hearings…whee doggies, left and right both gonna be doing some fancy footwork and talking out of both sides of their mouths!
josef
January 4th, 2013
6:32 pm
DUNWOODY GRANNY
At least you’ve still got hair…
JamVet
January 4th, 2013
6:32 pm
For sister Dusty, who is crying out to be…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBElipPiMuM
Briley Parkway
January 4th, 2013
6:36 pm
Love me some Elizabeth Cook! For any of you who subscribe to Sirius XM, she hosts a show called “Apron Strings” on the Outlaw Country channel…good stuff!
Jay
January 4th, 2013
6:39 pm
And you, Senator Josef? Would you vote to confirm?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
6:40 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1UKN-SKlg
josef
January 4th, 2013
6:41 pm
BIG DADDY
Nope. I sure wouldn’t. I’m too aggressive…
Soothsayer
January 4th, 2013
6:43 pm
Loves me some Briley Pkwy and Nashville. Beautiful country!
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 4th, 2013
6:46 pm
It’s good to see that at least ONE out of TEN THOUSAND kids make something out of their lives……after the federalies kidnap(or murder) their respective Fathers ……………for victimless crimes.
(the odds are worse for brown or black chillen).
.
Anyhoo…………………glamorize it all ya want…Decent and freedom-loving people are sickened.
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
6:51 pm
About 8-tracks–I never “got” them. Oh, I happened to have a player as part of my crappy all-in-one home stereo on which I played all my vinyl, back in the day, but I figured when I got a car if it was going to have any kind of a tape player, that’d be a cassette. Never understood the appeal of the format.
That said, occasionally I’d find a marked-down album as an 8-track, and once in a while due to the formatting you’d find a surprise on it. That was the case of this one Rod Stewart solo album, which had this amazing version of “What Made Milwaukee Famous”, that you oughta hear if you haven’t.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmHTpvc691A
getalife
January 4th, 2013
6:51 pm
The Pentagon wants him.
He will be squirming but that is karma.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328WhjAXpcs
getalife
January 4th, 2013
6:53 pm
8 track to cassette to cd to mp3 to Pandora.
josef
January 4th, 2013
6:56 pm
getalife
well, we can always hope…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORGaACYbAk0
Ken
January 4th, 2013
7:01 pm
Bill Clinton had a 1970 El Camino with astro turff in hte back. Here is is quote: Speaking to a group of GM employees, Clinton joked, “It had astro-turf in the back. I don’t want to tell you what the astro-turf was for.”. LOL
Towncrier
January 4th, 2013
7:11 pm
“Here she is, a hard-to-categorize musician performing her ode to another classic American eccentricity, the El Camino”
Pretty odd, a little reminiscent of the B-52s. She’s not going to make anyone’s top 10 list, I don’t think. What is in this Georgia water, anyway?
moonbat betty
January 4th, 2013
7:21 pm
If you white boys could dance, you migthta liked the El Camino song.
moonbat betty
January 4th, 2013
7:32 pm
and if you are a real man, you put a camper top on that Camino.
Harry Reed
January 4th, 2013
7:37 pm
Obama is the worst President in American History but he may be the smartest…. but it looks like the Obama voters are the dumbest!!
josef
January 4th, 2013
7:40 pm
okay, moonbat, give us an eight track memory….
josef
January 4th, 2013
7:43 pm
And coming in at 79 tonight, Harry Reed, t*rd in the punchbowl…
liberal hack
January 4th, 2013
7:56 pm
getalife might like this one, I really do! I can’t wait for the new album from this group.
btw, this is a track from it!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tmbv9ePGQo
moonbat betty
January 4th, 2013
8:03 pm
josef, what is an 8-track?
J/k
Ive heard a few, I’ll be back later.
Duty calls.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
8:03 pm
Obama is the worst President in American History…
And Romney still couldn’t defeat him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l3_gwIOTGI
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 4th, 2013
8:07 pm
Well, back when I was alot younger, in my very early 30s, I bought my first new car, a 1973 Pontiac Grand Prix with all the doo-dads, including an 8-track player. So I next went to buy a 8-track tape, and it turned out to be The Best of Bread. Some of you may not recall Bread, but they were all over the radio in their day. One of the founders quit over a feud about royalties. Seems like everything a member named David Gates wrote turned out to be a hit and he got the writer’s royalty. Here’s one of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a_4fBH_7dk
By the way, anybody know why the more beer you drink the better it tastes? Looks like it’s going to be another night of dodging the cops on my way home from Billy Bob’s.
Mustang Sallie
January 4th, 2013
8:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9smmQOvyxM
getalife
January 4th, 2013
8:18 pm
liberal hack,
This is from their latest album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBcADQziQWY
josef
January 4th, 2013
8:35 pm
Looks like Missus Jay came home feeling better and they went out. Hope so. Big Daddy could use a little cheering up…
Tom Middleton
January 4th, 2013
8:37 pm
Well, if we’re going to be talking about back when cars were real cars, here’s Mr. Chuck Berry with his “No Money Down.” Great stuff, sir, even after all these years…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK_ZP6dN6sU
JamVet
January 4th, 2013
8:38 pm
You don’t know what I got…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXFFLuoaMzM
Jackie
January 4th, 2013
8:44 pm
The House Repubs who voted against the aid for the Sandy victims should be throughly embarrassed to EVER ask/vote for money for their district.
Jackie
January 4th, 2013
8:49 pm
Sorry, forgot to post link showing who voted against.
http://gawker.com/5973255/here-are-the-republicans-who-voted-no-on-hurricane-sandy-relief-funds
Tom Middleton
January 4th, 2013
8:50 pm
Oh and one more. Take it, Ms. Chapman…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orv_F2HV4gk
moonbat betty
January 4th, 2013
8:50 pm
ok, jo,
I think this might have been my first 8 track.
All warm and fuzzy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZDye9gVCw
Tom Middleton
January 4th, 2013
9:01 pm
Eight tracks? You mean eight – CLICK – tracks?
Recon 0311 2533
January 4th, 2013
9:06 pm
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/mother-of-two-surprises-burglar-with-five-gunshots/nTnGR/
Why onerous gun control is a bad idea.
moonbat betty
January 4th, 2013
9:12 pm
Enter your comments here
JamVet
January 4th, 2013
9:15 pm
And Turd Bowl Del leaves us a big steaming pile.
Get some diapers, old man…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZtJqDIom5Q
Jerome Horwitz
January 4th, 2013
9:15 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkArY4AcUI
A different take on EC
moonbat betty
January 4th, 2013
9:16 pm
I was lucky enough to play with real to real.
and Quadraphonic stereo, man.
I had a real to real with the Quadraphonic sound.
Dig it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVg-w7BjeCY