Saturday Night Music: Corb Lund

From the Archives: Taylor Swift Parody

from JAN 5, 2009

Mother-in-Law

(Parody of Taylor Swift’s “Tim McGraw”)

My wife said we’ll have a real good time

She’ll only stay a couple of nights

I said “That’s a lie”

She’ll pull up in her SUV

2 weeks of luggage behind the seat

Wearin’ an evil smile

An’ I’ll be fit to be tied before too long

Smokin’ on the back porch wishin’ that battle axe was gone

When I think mother-in-law

I don’t feel too good at all

I dread each visit, every call

Her voice like a goat caught in a gate

And I’ll know happiness

On the day she’s laid to rest

I know she’ll give the good Lord stress

She’ll raise a holy stink

Oh, when I think mother-in-law

I think I need a drink

December saw a month of tears

An’ thankin’ God for ice cold beer

To help me stay sane

That woman cut me down like weeds

Her baby deserves better than me

And I’ll never change

It was hard not to find a gun and put it to good use

But I ain’t suicidal and that bitch is bulletproof

When I think mother-in-law

I don’t feel too good at all

I dread each visit, every call

Her voice like a goat caught in a gate

And I’ll know happiness

On the day she’s laid to rest

I know she’ll give the good Lord stress

She’ll raise a holy stink

Oh, when I think mother-in-law

I think I need a drink

I’ve been sleepin’ on the couch since she left

‘Cause when she fin’ly did go

I told her when she got back home

To tell the other demons hello

When I think mother-in-law

I don’t feel too good at all

I dread each visit, every call

Her voice like a goat caught in a gate

And I’ll know happiness

On the day she’s laid to rest

I know she’ll give the good Lord stress

She’ll raise a holy stink

Oh, when I think mother-in-law

I think I need a drink

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My wife said we’ll have a real good time

She’ll only stay a couple of nights

I said “That’s a lie”

YouTube Gems: John Fullbright

From 2012's From the Ground Up (which is still new to me), here's John Fullbright with "Gawd Above."

Single Review: Kenny Chesney - Pirate Flag

(Listen to the single here)

Kenneth Chesney's latest beach-centric tune attempts to stand out from his enormous catalogue of similar work by going the full Tom Petty. "Pirate Flag" is heartland rock n' roll with a verse melody so eerily close to Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance," one has to wonder if that may come up for legal discussion at some point. The theme is typical Chesney - giving up the rat-race for the Jimmy Buffett lifestyle. While Kenny has expanded his repertoire to include some more mature singles in recent years (El Cerrito Place, You and Tequila, Somewhere With You), he reserves the right to fall back on his go-to island boy schtick whenever something more appropriate his age-group fails to chart in the top 10 (El Cerrito Place). Does it sound like a beach song? Hell no. The darker musical approach doesn't line up with the imagery at all... except for the pirate flag, I suppose, but Chesney's no gun-toting boat raider, so nothing lines up. It's not a terrible song. I'm just of the opinion that if you're not going to do something that at least attempts to break new ground, either vocally (this is Kenny Chesney we're talking about), lyrically (um no) or musically (paging Tom Petty), what's the point? Treading blue Caribbean water, I suppose.

C-

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