ASK iAN * RT N’ THE 44s
While in Los Angeles last week...i found myself at some strange soiree...David Lynch red rich ghost warm lights...soft slow dancing shadows...and i heard music coming from inside the house...i followed the tiny sound...like i was again walking through the hall of my Great Grandma Henning's House towards the record playing room...a crackling Sears and Roebuck AM/FM radio...on a grey tornado warning Saturday...dog asleep on it's blanket...Grandpa Henning long gone and dead...his black leather lazy boy recliner...cracked, worn and sorrowful...the shades in the window dusty, with a dead little fly in the corner of the window sill...the smell of glass green coca cola bottles...and motor oil...old photographs from the Korean war...black slush ice...an accident...a car gone off the bridge after a terrible collision...a stranger...a young man dead...another scarred for life...and the sad bars sweeping up at closing time far away down the street...walking me now through the ghost hall...towards the door...Johnny Cash...Elvis Presley...Dick Curless at the truck driving gear jammer's wheeling jamboree...Porter Wagoner...Patsy Cline...The Carter Family...some strange hurt scarecrow calling my name...Jesus bleeding in the guest bedroom..this strange earthly alcohol driven sad soul swollen music with a hair raising madness...like snakes drinking from your parlor...i give you RT n' the 44s*
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Location El Sereno, CA Gender Plural (mixed) Personal information Michael "Swimmy" Webb- Washboard/Vocals RT Valine- Wood n' Wire/Vocals Brendan Willard- BanjoBass/Vocals
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