17
Jul
i’ll surrender even though i should run
(or: july 17’s honey from the hive)
posted at 10:51 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
Janie Fricke — “It Ain’t Easy Bein’ Easy” (from Greatest Hits
It may or may not surprise you to learn that there exists a corner in the deep, dark interior of my soul — a corner of sleepy yearning, a corner of desperation and perspiration — which gets in a weird mood sometimes, a mood that only exposure to the furiously magnificent Fricke, a long-forgotten and criminally underappreciated two-time winner of the Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year prize in the early ’80s (and one of the great heroines of my childhood), can quench and quell. (Suffice to say that I’m struck by one of those moods today.)
