Just realized "Benjamin" from Medicine Suite was Benjamin Smoke a.k.a Robert Dickerson a.k.a Opal Foxx of the Opal Foxx Quartet whose debut album "The Love That Won't Shut Up" is in my top ten...of album titles. He had a voice like Tom Waits hitting people up for meth money in the parking lot of a gas station long after Tom Waits had gone to bed, a Tom Waits you couldn't listen to for more than five minutes, a Tom Waits who wasn't kidding.
If anyone wants to irritate Steve Albini, point him to this so he can see how he’s referred to as a “producer.”
I like this album a lot, but I never enjoyed the Dylan cover. I always thought the humor was pretty central to the original version, and PJ’s version sounds so serious and even melodramatic to me.
Just realized "Benjamin" from Medicine Suite was Benjamin Smoke a.k.a Robert Dickerson a.k.a Opal Foxx of the Opal Foxx Quartet whose debut album "The Love That Won't Shut Up" is in my top ten...of album titles. He had a voice like Tom Waits hitting people up for meth money in the parking lot of a gas station long after Tom Waits had gone to bed, a Tom Waits you couldn't listen to for more than five minutes, a Tom Waits who wasn't kidding.
Yeovil is southern in the sense that California is. In England it's regarded as the West Country and accordingly rural.
If anyone wants to irritate Steve Albini, point him to this so he can see how he’s referred to as a “producer.”
I like this album a lot, but I never enjoyed the Dylan cover. I always thought the humor was pretty central to the original version, and PJ’s version sounds so serious and even melodramatic to me.