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Lee Ann Womack — “I’ll Think of a Reason Later”
(from Some Things I Know) —

Joey + Rory — “Cheater, Cheater” (from The Life of a Song) —

I was reviewing this week’s posts and most of them are downright depressing, so today we switch gears with two country ladies that can (and will) tell you how the cow ate the cabbage in two of the funniest songs that I have ever heard. The brilliant Lee Ann Womack nails to the wall that feeling of you don’t want him, but you don’t want some perky girl from Denver to have him either, while Joey + Rory take the more direct approach with an anthem for jilted women everywhere that expresses everything you wish you had the presence of mind to say to his face as you’re throwing his crap out onto the front lawn. So take her pictures, black out her teeth with a marker, and then wish her well as she rots in hell, and have a good belly laugh enjoying today’s tunes.

It’s another slow one out there, kids, as the great new release famine of August 2010 rolls on. Fear not — relief arrives next week in the estimable forms of David Gray and Ray LaMontagne, so until then, bide your time with these titles:

• The ever-ambitious Blake Shelton delivers the second leg of a planned trilogy of EPs this week with the release of All About Tonight,
  a six-track collection of tunes which includes “Draggin’ the River,”
  a bizarro duet with his beloved, that surly spitfire Miranda Lambert.

 

• Just ahead of the film’s arrival in theaters nationwide this weekend
  drops the motion picture soundtrack for Julia Roberts’ much-anticipated Eat, Pray, Love, which includes a brand new single from Pearl Jam’s frontman Eddie Vedder, as well as previously released material from Josh Rouse, Neil Young, and Marvin Gaye.

 

• This has apparently been out since freakin’ May, but I only stumbled across the original television soundtrack Friday Night Lights, Vol. 2 just last week (and quite by accident, at that). Nevertheless, this is a must-own, with tracks from Augustana, Jakob Dylan, and The Avett Brothers, as well as — at long last — W.G. Snuffy Walden’s gorgeous theme song, about which I waxed eloquent here last weekend.

 

• Finally, head on down to your local Wal-Mart store this week, where five bucks’ll get you Self Loves Lilith 2010, a miniature version of Self magazine (with Sugarland’s glorious goddess Jennifer Nettles gracing the cover!) which comes bundled with a fifteen-track CD containing music from such Lilith Fair participants as Suzanne Vega, Grace Potter, A Fine Frenzy, Lights, and (duh!) Sarah McLachlan. (Give this one spin, and then I dare you to tell me it’s not ten times more satisfying than the so-called “official” Lilith companion disc that was released last month!)