[Rhodes22-list] Pat Dailey

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Slim:  Is that the SAME Shel Silverstein that wrote "where the sidewalk 
ends"?  & a couple other 'children's books'????  Just curious.......maryAt 
04:47 AM 8/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>A couple weeks ago there was a fun thread with the subject:  How to sing the
>blues that I think Bill started.  We got on the the subject of Pat Dailey.
>Well, I just got a couple of his CD's the other day and I think it was Wally
>who said, "Can't wait for the review."
>
>The two CD's I got were "Looking Back" and "Raw Bars With Macaw."  The first
>one is sort of a greatest hits collection of mostly his "serious" or shall
>we say, "regular" songs.  I guess "Put In Bay" is his big hit and if you
>lived around there, I suppose that'd be one of your favorites, but the juicy
>stuff is on the other disc, "Raw Bars with Macaw" which comes with a label
>warning: Intended for mature adults (and boaters).  Now, this one I can
>really sink me teeth into ;-) although I'm not exactly sure just how mature
>these songs really are :-)  I was delighted to see that many of the songs
>are either written by or collaborated on with Shel Silverstein, who's always
>been a favorite of mine.  (Shel wrote the Dr. Hook hit, "On the Cover of the
>Rolling Stone" and who doesn't love that one?)
>
>Naturally, "Raw Bars..." includes a healthy four-finger-pour of crude and
>lewd drinking songs.  Since I play in a bar, I can't really have too many of
>these and I'll be covering several of them right away for sure. :-)  I like
>just about all of them but here are my favorites:  "Nymphomaniac" is a great
>song that would work well for a roast, where we get, say, a bachelorette up
>on stage and sing her a song such as this.  "Doobie and a Brew and Some Poon
>Tang Too" is going to be very hard to resist!!  "Just How Drunk Are We Gonna
>Get" will literally ring the till and so will "You Don't Have to be Drunk
>(to be an Asshole)" which would also make a good roast.  "I've Got to be
>Drunk to do That" is a song that I've actually done years ago but didn't
>know it was written by Shel Silverstein. And Finally, "Aphrodisiac
>(Oysters)" is very clever and has this cool, jazzy, Lyle Lovett sort of
>groove.  I can dig it, man.
>
>Lot's of fun and thanks for turning me on to it, dudes! :-)
>Slimmy
>S/V Fandango
>
>
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