Another tune that's been floating thru my brain for the last few weeks is "Jailhouse Tears," a duet Lucinda Williams has been performing with everyone from David Johansen of the New York Dolls to Steve Earle. It's hard-core country, not the folksy wordsmithery that Lucinda usually turns out - and it's got profanity and drug use at its core.
Funny that she gets Steve Earle to sing it. No matter how long it's been since his drug bust, the guy still seems to have an addiction to something - whether it's getting married or just work-work-working his tail off - and I can't help but wonder what goes through his head when he has to sing something like that.
The lyrics - you can see some of them here - are a little silly, but for some reason (probably Lucinda's thick-as-molasses Southern accent) I can't seem to stop humming this song. Whether or not she ever commits it to disc, given her current predilection for lustful internal monologues over character studies, is anyone's guess.
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