soapbox

This Saturday, the 8th. I know Michael and Nick are fans, so this post is in case you two haven’t heard. There’s some sort of snowboarding event associated with it, too.

“Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song, and he told me that it was the perfect country and western song. I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country and western song because he hadn’t said anything at all about Mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin drunk. Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me. After reading it, I realized that my friend had written the perfect country and western song, and I felt obliged to include it on this album. The last verse goes like this here:”

(see my iTunes for a listen)