The Wonder Of The Ones.

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When I'm playing with the old guys we like to cover one hit wonders.

Sometimes sans the hits, but just about always straight ahead, four-on-the-floor type stuff.

Or, when needed, punked up and, preferably, ska-ified.

All of which means it can be tough to get them to do anything even slightly folk-tinged but somehow I managed to get them to agree to do that old Violent Femmes tune 'Blister In The Sun'.

Anyway...

A couple of weeks ago after catching a fantastic live performance on the KEXP live session by a group of young kids who call themselves 'Boy Genius', I went down the rabbit hole listening to and checking out the backstory of the budding super group's various members.

And I came across the following in an LA Times profile of Phoebe Bridgers from a couple of years ago:

...In February she heads out on a headlining U.S. tour — a definite step up from the opening slots she played over the last couple of years with the likes of the War on Drugs and the Violent Femmes.

The latter trek was especially rough, she admits.

“They were so cool, but I forgot they have a radio hit,” she says, referring to the folk-punk trio’s early-’80s staple “Blister in the Sun.”

“That’s what drunk moms in Montana came to hear, and they don’t care at all about who’s on before — or about any other Violent Femmes songs, for that matter.”...


As for my own stripped-downiest version of the tune in question?

Well, I'm not sure Drunk Mom's anywhere, including those who hail from in Missoula in Big Sky country, would be clamouring for, or even requesting, it.

But what the heckfire!

Here goes....






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