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The Only Person Who Can Do a Good Bobby Patterson is Jeff Tweedy

Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:20:38 PM
Peter Calvin
Did you ever hear about the night Bobby Patterson played with Golden Smog at South by Southwest? Goes a little like this.

Ladies and gents, Mr. Bobby Patterson as performed by Golden Smog on April 18, 1996, at a place called Cat's Cradle in Idunnowhere, Someplace. It's courtesy Captain's Dead, which, far as I'm concerned for the next four minutes and 34 seconds, is the greatest MP3 blog in the history of compressed music. And the rest of the show, with its Neil Young and David Bowie and Charlie Rich and Blondie and Rolling Stone and Nick Lowe covers mixed amongst essential originals, ain't bad neither. --Robert Wilonsky

Category: Local Music

4 Comments:

Cat's Cradle is in Carrboro, NC -- Basically Chapel Hill.

Preciate that, Dr. Pegasus. Coulda looked it up myself, I guess, but I was too drunk off the downloading by 1:48 a.m. to bother, frankly.

dave says:

Nick Lowe = Jesus of Cool

The only other album title I can think of that rings that true is Creed's 1997 release, "Hot, Steamin' Pile of Crap."

Craig says:

Golden Smog and, in particular, Gary Louris, get nowhere near the press their excellent music would suggest they should. Great post, thanks for the link to these incredible downloads, Wilonsky.

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