Last night, a group of eight including Daniel and me went to Poor David’s in Dallas to see the incomparable Asylum Street Spankers, an Austin-based band that I seem to love more with every passing day. Daniel spent yesterday and a good deal of Friday building a fence with his dad, so I hadn’t necessarily expected him to feel up to going — but he did, and we all had a wonderful time. My only regret is that they never seem to play all of the songs I wish they would — Daniel still hasn’t seen them do their “Got My Mojo Workin'” routine, and I haven’t heard “The Pussycat Song” since we went last June for my birthday. 🙁
BTW, their Web site claims a CD with that song will be released on iTunes soon:
New Releases on the Way!
The DVD of the 10th Anniversary Re-Assembly is almost done! We plan to have it available at shows and online by August, in stores in September. Two new bootleg albums will be available at the same time. The first, spanning 1995-1999 will include “Coffee Grindin’ Blues,” “Robinson Crusoe” and “The Devil is My Friend.” The second, covering 2000-2004, will include “You Made the Night Too Long,” “Closer” and, YES!, “The Pussycat Song.”
The opening act for the Spankers was an outstanding vocalist and songwriter named Idgy Vaughn. She played a short set of maybe seven or eight songs, and prefaced each one — EXCEPT the first — with a short intro that led you to believe it was a song based entirely on fact. The first one was about killing her boyfriend and throwing him in the river, which seemed to her to be alright since nobody missed him and nobody dragged the river. The fact that the rest of her songs were true totally freaked one of the guys at the show with us out. “There’s a police station across the street!” he kept saying…
She was great, though, and I highly recommend buying her CD when it comes out (soon) and checking out two free MP3 downloads at her Web site.