Friday Song of the Day (day late but no tomorrow)

[Davey]

Always liked the Friday Song of the Day threads, but guess it kind of faded away into the sunset. But I'm a retroman at heart, so here it comes again ...

Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3. Man, he's got a top flight rock band working with him the last few years. Aces all around. Perfect guitar foil in Jason Victor. Their teamwork this time even brings memories of Duane Allman and Dicky Betts at times. Just a beautiful and fluid intertwining of strings. But they get a little raunchy too, never keeping it too refined for long. Victor started playing with them on the Here Come the Miracles tour and now has been on the last 2 albums. Linda Pitmon has been playing with him since before Here Come the Miracles and is a very good no unnecessary frills rock drummer in the mold of the ready steady mod drummers of the 60s like Ringo and the more rambuctious Moon, or his reeled in replacement Kenny Jones, propelling the song along without getting in the way of the groove. I know she's a fan of Georgia from Yo La Tengo too. Perfect for his music.

Anyway, back to the song. I absolutely adore the whole album, but am totally loving the 8 minute closer on this new ...tick...tick...tick CD. It's called "No Tomorrow" and might be the best thing he's done since the early Dream Syndicate days. My song of the day, and week ... and maybe month and year too. It's a two-parter, a conversation between broken lovers, she in the first part, sounding a bit like Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue", disillusioned, just wanting to hole up and fade away, and he in the second part, not wanting to let her disappear, with a glimpse of what could be their redemption toward the end, and with lots of that great guitar playing throughout with the Allman Brothers feel I mentioned above, at least until they take it more into that dirtier Velvet Underground core sound. Reminds me a bit of that first Television album sometimes. And some rocking Neil Young with the Crazy guys too. Good stuff. Great band with Steve Wynn--vocals, guitar / Jason Victor--guitar, vocals / Dave DeCastro--bass, vocals / Linda Pitmon--drums, percussion, vocals.



Sample from Part 1:
She said, "When all my leaders started lying to me
I was shattered. It just didn't make sense.
I started drinking and my life got worse
And I knew it was more than coincidence."

Ain't that just like you?
Shining all the lights on yourself
Ain't that just like you
Firing all your guns at once until you fade away.

Sample from Part 2:
Oh, my sweet catastrophe
is this the way it has to be?
locked away by house arrest
exiled by your own behest
And if we lose our way
I don't know what to say
I want to love you like there's no tomorrow

And if we pay the price,
Well wouldn't that be nice?
I want to love you like there's no tomorrow

BTW, forgot to mention that you can listen to that No Tomorrow song and one of the others on the player at his site. Not sure how it sounds but ... http://stevewynn.net