20
Aug
and i can hear the devil whisper
(or: august 20’s honey from the hive)
posted at 5:02 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
Alan Jackson (with Patty Loveless) — “Monday Morning Church”
(from What I Do
The chorus is rather awkwardly phrased and clumsily articulated, but it doesn’t much matter: the imagery here is indelibly shattering, and Jackson manages — with able assistance, of course, from the, uh, peerless Loveless, who turns in a haunting harmony vocal that can only qualify as angelic — to create a compelling, richly terrific tableau of a man swallowed whole by untenable grief.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Meant to comment a few days ago, but: Patty Loveless! (Agree with the awkward hook, though. The verses are so much better than the chorus.)