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    It's not the easiest-accessible song on this album (yes, I know, unless you hit 8 on your remote control LOL), but I also think it fits very well after "I Should Have Known It". It starts off a two-song trip into the deepest south, a very rural, swampy, humid, gator-infested, tobacco-spitting, sweaty America. You can almost feel the vibration of the truck running down the state route and hear cicada chirping.

    What I like most about this song is the reference to Pulpwood Petty. I like it a lot when Tom puts his family into the song - that's what I liked most about "Dreamville", too, when his Mom drove him down to Glen Springs pool...

    A nice nod to his granddad there.

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    A great rock track, very much Zep in there. Again, Mike and his guitar are the protagonists on this one. Tom's vocals are just perfect. The breaks and the change in tempo near the end are making this a very entertaining piece of music.

    If I remember correctly, this one and "Good Enough" were recorded very late in the process of making Mojo. Maybe the record company demanded a real rocker to have a radio single?

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    Pretty groovy and a time machine really. This song takes me to a late 1950s rural America when Cadillac Eldorados were on the street, "Coke" was still "Coca Cola" and you didn't drink your beverage from fancy glassware or a plastic cup but a mere fruit jar, while sitting on your front porch looking out on the dusty road...

    I feel comfortable in this song!

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    And like any road trip, what really happened is just a little unclear, a little uncomfortable in retrospect, and a bit disjointed. It's a great song.

    ^Absolutely and very well put.

    I always stumble across the drug reference in this song (suits the Doors-y style, too):

    - We were flying close to heaven, Everything was starting to glow

    - Rollin’ cause we had to roll

    - I got a friend in Mendocino and it’s gettin’ close to harvest time

    That probably explains why this road trip is unclear, uncomfortable and dis"joint"ed... ;)

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    This was the only tour I was able to catch - and their last European tour, too. I was mildly irritated when the psychedelic dragon came around in Frankfurt, but it was one great moment when Tom opened the treasure chest, the gleaming light came out and he put on the top hat for "Don't Come Around Here No More". The irritation came back around the end of the song, though, when the rubber-masked nerds in suits were all over the stage...wonder who these people were - probably the road crew?

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    This one took me some time to really get into it. When I first heard it on the Buried Treasure show, I wasn't too euphoric, but it has grown on me. I like the groove, the lyrics are perfect and the sound of the lead vocal (was it taped with a different mic or did it go through a voice processor?) fits perfectly - clean and dry.

    Favorite line:

    And I see with the eyes of somethin’ wounded

    Somethin’ still standing after the storm

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    I agree, in the stereo mix, the harmonica tends to be annoying...but when you listen to the 5.1 Mix, the harmonica isn't that loud anymore. I also think it's a really good opener.

    The lyrics are intriguing indeed. Maybe the relationship between black and white Tom sings about is just a metaphor for what's going on this album - a well-to-do white man playing the poor man's music.

    On the other hand...maybe it's just a song about TJ and his love life... ;)

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