Today's Happy Hour Soundtrack

Waylon... doin' one of my all-time favorite tunes:

I'm gonna find me
a hole in the wall
I'm gonna crawl inside and die
Come a later now
a mean ol' woman, Lord
never told me goodbye

Heh.  Those lyrics cut waaay too damned close to the bone.  It's a funny thang (funny strange, not funny ha-ha), but I was kinda sorta goin' through those ol' "she done me wrong" blues when the Marshall Tucker Band released this song back in the mid-70s.  Little did I know what was to come down the tracks those many years later...

So there's that.  The song has remained a favorite in the intervening years, mainly coz I think it's the finest country blues tune that's EVAH been committed to tape or any other medium.  I've posted the Marshall Tucker Band version of this tune before, which remains the original and best version of the song.  I think Waylon's version is every bit as good as Toy Caldwell's and in some respects exceeds the original... like in the guitar parts.  What's missing, though is that plaintive flute that weaves its way in and out of the MTB's version... which STILL gives me chills.  May it ever be so.