The painful, booze-sodden detour from Lovers’ Lane
It’s a simple, classic recipe:
One (1) broken heart.
One (1) bottle of booze. (Add more as needed).
The result is the drunken break-up, heartbreak song, presented here by the recently reunited Mavericks. I love their sound: Rockabilly beats, backed by a powerful blast of Latino horns, probably due to the influence of lead singer Raul Malo out of Miami. Good stuff.
– Jay Bookman
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They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
3:56 pm
Great jump up boogie woogie with a kind of swing beat.
Jay, just curious, where do you find all of the good, albeit a tad obscure, (to me anyway) stuff that you do? Friends, colleagues, just snooping around? (LOL!)
DebbieDoRight - What this country needs is more unemployed politicians
March 1st, 2013
4:03 pm
Love it!!
Rocabilly Boogie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LUGNC8miRo
The Original Rockabilly (Mr. Lewis): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9kRi_VLjbE
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
4:03 pm
Hillbilly D and i used to jam this one on FNMs of yore…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBMo8xHGNs
Matti
March 1st, 2013
4:08 pm
When Redneck Convert told me we couldn’t go parkin behind the beer store no more, I turned to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVI4dzbYXMc
stands for decibels
March 1st, 2013
4:10 pm
Aw. Good-timey music from Jay. And with the sort of impeccable musicianship and classy stagecraft I expect from him.
This sorta thing (hey, it’s related via Teh Booze) is more my style, though.
Thomas Heyward Jr
March 1st, 2013
4:11 pm
Is it safe enough out there to send the wife on a beer run?
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmcJWPYcr1I
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
4:13 pm
Hit Matti!
Sky high…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8BjiRE8iys
And Debbie, back at ya with some suggestive JLL…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfM5dAuUdt8
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq27glkY_A
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:15 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POIhrgB2Udg
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:16 pm
Another one from the great George Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QZzrVKGnOk
stands for decibels
March 1st, 2013
4:17 pm
If I could hold on to just one thought
for long enough to know
why my mind is movin’ so fast
and the conversation is slow…
barstool blues.
(and I might live a thousand years before I know what that means)
stands for decibels
March 1st, 2013
4:17 pm
anyway, don’t drink and drive. Back later, possibly…
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:19 pm
get your honky tonk on with some more George Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF-XTP6VZ9E
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cngsVlG3Z60
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:22 pm
One more from Jones……………..
What a singer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3nda4SxO0
Matti
March 1st, 2013
4:23 pm
Jam,
GOOD ONE!
indigo
March 1st, 2013
4:23 pm
I like this oldie better
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cigaretts+whisky+and+wild+wild+women+youtube&mid=6E2AB1B95A571DDD8FF16E2AB1B95A571DDD8FF1&view=detail&FORM=VIRE3
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
4:23 pm
San Francisco via Ann Arbor rockabilly…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QpDvhshOQ
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:24 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2V4UUjYBsA
Whiskey bent and hell bound………………
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVu8MkNnvZA
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:27 pm
The Man in Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqlx7ZqeerU
josef
March 1st, 2013
4:27 pm
Some things don’t translate. This one didn’t. Nice music, good lyrics. But the two don’t go together here….blleah…thumbs down…
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:29 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5fPntjfVr8
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sGH8i63gWg
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:32 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZXLQTQw3U
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:34 pm
godless: this one is for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAm0YQMEcEs
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:36 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtSAtYEad4Y
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:38 pm
DDR and Jam
great JLL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9cOJhr4cWg
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:39 pm
Jam
Back at ya with the ARS……… damn they were good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juQz_i2mxEk
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
4:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLNmvaACJno
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:42 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-isrqxNRX8
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
4:47 pm
The Deep South meets Steely Dan…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GLivgLz1Bg
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:49 pm
crank up that trusty gibson……………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEjRs4tzsE
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:52 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Sz8ZTa1UQ
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:53 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkN_LF0xcM
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
4:53 pm
Still the greatest band of it’s kind. They created a whole new genre of music! (The one that gave rise to that stunning little band from Doraville!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5XJDxe7TVY
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
4:55 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK1QncTz5Nc
TBS
March 1st, 2013
4:56 pm
Jam: you are speaking the truth for sure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdKx9O31A0
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:00 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEP_dPN3Haw
josef
March 1st, 2013
5:01 pm
still looking for mine tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjKbsHTIx8
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:01 pm
Jam
I always thought “Seven Turns” was an underrated album. Not their best, however there are some great tunes on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGrzbxRaxs
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
5:03 pm
TBS, i remember the first time I heard Whipping Post, thinking, damn! There just isn’t anybody like these guys!
And like that one you just linked it is from their 1969 eponymous debut album…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6up076lSH8
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:03 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApuEWiLfW_A
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:05 pm
what a wonderful song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwyXQn9g40I
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:06 pm
Jam
They have so many. There are some good bands out there, but not many like the All Bros………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Ro7LLEaQQ
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:08 pm
“Please call home…………..”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoBAl6S0pU
Paul
March 1st, 2013
5:08 pm
Jay, loved the instrumentals and the sound. Am still working so can’t address josef’s point on the lyrics as I didn’t concentrate on them.
But having Bosch drop by, then that sound, well, it’s a good Friday afternoon.
Thanks!
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:11 pm
Jam: turn this one UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aayzjy-hTkw
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
5:13 pm
TBS Thanks for the SC on the Skids. Back at you.
Liquored up and Lacquered Down
http://youtu.be/ev9EtZrL7xo
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:15 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdVrRJ1T-Xk
This is tight. When they put this down in the studio, I’m sure it was one hell of a rockn jam session……….. On the other hand, I’m sure they had many, many rockn jam sessions
Smoking hot
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
5:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzqQst-Sg8
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
5:19 pm
Bakersville country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4foq4HcQdpg
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:20 pm
godless
Used to go watch them in L59 in throughout the 90s….
They are kick ass live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eObj4JuzERk
Matti
March 1st, 2013
5:21 pm
josef,
Your point isn’t lost on me. I like Jay’s tune and totally dig the horn section, but it’s too upbeat to express real heartbreak. When I’m feeling that kind of pain, I wallow in this (shout out the awesomeness of this local guitar god and his Flying V…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD23G5t6NWY
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:22 pm
Kam
Great call on the G.T
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ECZMvbLxg
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
5:23 pm
“field” not “ville”
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
5:27 pm
Let’s not forget the wimmen folk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySdRUWYJhsk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BOTH
Calling for 4″ snow between now and Sunday up here in this small hamlet in the N.C. Mtns. Y’all might get some too tomorrow morning.
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h_g5Fmk-ig
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
5:29 pm
I saw the ABs once. The very first time I came to the ATL. June 1, 1974. Down at the old Stadium.
WILD times…
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnMxEuhzOlg
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:31 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiHGf8LkunM
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:33 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYpGEAwH1k0
Now Willie is probably going to smoke one before he hits the bottle
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFxQKDqqIp0
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
5:35 pm
Including the most badass slide guitar we had ever heard, TBS @5:15…
pogo
March 1st, 2013
5:36 pm
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/senator-obamas-golf-weekend-tiger-cost-much-341-federal-workers-furloughed_704915.html
Of course King Obama’s weekend (not to mention Michelle’s girl outing in Colorado) means much more than those 341 workers jobs doesn’t it? Let them eat cake.
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:36 pm
My fav country singer…….. hands down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLrdB11PZLs
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
5:37 pm
Here’s another one by The Mavericks where the tempo is upbeat compared to some sad lyrics, but it works. Featuring the incomparable Flaco Jimenez on the chest organ.
http://youtu.be/R9VhX7bFGRk
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjsaCpMbVtg
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:39 pm
“Are you sure Hank done it this way?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USK2S9RwL84
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
5:40 pm
Whoever had 65 as the number for turd in the punchbowl — you are the winner.
As an added bonus — it’s drudgey spam.
Payout is 10-1.
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:41 pm
Great tune about Waylon singing about himself and his old party buddy Willie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNfi3T3xJxw
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
5:41 pm
jonix and his Bette Midler cracks me up. (Cuz I love it too.)
I love the drinking songs and the drinking, but the honest god to truth is that I’m a puker. Oh yeah, I can hurl with the best of ‘em. And that is not some junk science theory; it has been observed and repeated many times!
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
5:42 pm
TBS: This is a great music moment. Stick it out through the story.
I drinks a bit.
http://youtu.be/5QdWpab_kFg
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
5:42 pm
BOTH
Back atcha with WJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvlE14cM-zk
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
5:44 pm
Bro Kam @5:40, huge LOL. (At poor pogo’s expense.)
josef
March 1st, 2013
5:44 pm
matti
Yeah. And whenever I get in that mood (and yes, Love, I DO get in it
) Give me a woman singer who knows just the right amount of angst and the right amount of hope…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDqHNvxz0
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FepZlKGZRw
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
5:44 pm
I drinks a bit.
Heh, heh, heh.
I’m an occasional social drinker.
The rest are occupational.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
5:44 pm
And as aside to the link at 5:42, last Saturday, the guy playing guitar on the left, Jason Isbell, married the chick playing fiddle, Amanda Shires.
josef
March 1st, 2013
5:46 pm
coming in @ 5:36, the t*rd on the FNM punchbowl…way to go pogo…
getalife
March 1st, 2013
5:48 pm
pogo is turd blossum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=059hMcNo4j8
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
5:49 pm
The rest are occupational.
kayaker 71
March 1st, 2013
5:50 pm
“Jedi mind meld”……. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
indigo
March 1st, 2013
5:52 pm
pogo – 5:36
Get a clue, toolie.
http://ezkool.com/2011/08/obama-vacations-vs-george-bush/
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
5:54 pm
Whoever had 65 as the number for turd in the punchbowl — you are the winner.
Damn. Missed it by that much.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
5:54 pm
Man; some people’s kids, huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o30APbuwNbw
getalife
March 1st, 2013
5:54 pm
It is legal for you to drink until you pass out but illegal to smoke one joint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adycQds4clw
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:55 pm
godless @ 5:42
Thanks. That was pretty cool
liberal hack
March 1st, 2013
5:57 pm
Jay, that was hot, very good selection tonight.
Now, for those who are worried how 85 billion borrowed may ruin the whole American economy, this is dedicated to you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
TBS
March 1st, 2013
5:58 pm
getalife
This one is for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUH1XmFb05Y
getalife
March 1st, 2013
6:00 pm
kay,
And you wonder why they call you the stupid party?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3Ahe8z16k
indigo
March 1st, 2013
6:00 pm
This one is good too.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=where+or+where+are+you+tonight+youtube&mid=6504F4519B7FEDAB87A76504F4519B7FEDAB87A7&view=detail&FORM=VIRE7
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
6:00 pm
This song has hemp references…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg
TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:01 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZJPffuZZVA
getalife
March 1st, 2013
6:02 pm
TBS,
Back at ya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlujizeNNQM
St Simons - he-ne-ha
March 1st, 2013
6:02 pm
that poor fella in the Mavericks, had Patricia Yearwood, and lost her.
from the low country coast -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raJWuz7qQVc
TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91XHUivFMrU
You can start this one….. take a bio break, grab a beer and answer an email……….. great jam but it is a little long
TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:08 pm
get
this one says it all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIv4PQ3XX1Y
pogo
March 1st, 2013
6:09 pm
Maxine Waters proclaims that 170 million jobs will be lost because sequestration. Trouble is, that is more jobs than this country has. She is an excellent example of todays progressives. Stupid, blinded and getting way, way more than they deserve.
TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:10 pm
get
changing gears but same sentiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3YtvuZ2-I0