Jose Feliciano through the Looking Glass
While we wait to complete the instrumental tracks on the All That Jaws album, Brian Descheneaux and I decided to form a band that would be impervious to studio delays, musicians' schedules, and mountain road closures in that it would consist of ourselves.We chose the name Fogelfoot, an abbreviation of Croce Dan and Seals Bread Fogelfoot, to pay tribute to the earnest 70's songwriting traditions of Jim Croce, Bread, Seals & Crofts, Gordon Lightfoot, Dan Fogelberg, and England Dan And John Ford Coley.
And because the name "Cormorant" was already taken, inexplicably, by a San Francisco metal band.
So each week we set ourselves a task. This week I wanted to pay homage to every 70's song that used the word "Lady" and write a story a la "Brandy" about an inaccessible love interest with a past. Because the past involved a Mexican soldier, I wanted the song to be reminiscent of Jose Feliciano's "Chico and the Man" and to incorporate as many 70's props as possible, including a creepy narrator, amulets, and cocaine. Finally, the narrator needed to solve all his love interest's problems by telling her that she was pretty.
I also borrowed a little from "Love in the Time of Cholera."
The song is called "Lady And the Man," Brian did all the music, and it is available on the Flight of the Mavervorl podcast. Subscribe now!
Lady is a ladySee also: The Flight of the Mavervorl, All That Jaws
Long-legged sultry lady
She sways her hips for the gentlemen
On the lonely side of town
When it's midnight in the city
I go to see my Lady
And I bring her gifts of sweet white wine
And spices from the East
She tells me, "I would like to make sweet love to you
By the torrid Tampiquena Sea
But you cannot catch The Cormorant, can you?
It's only when she's dancing that she's free."
There's a sadness in my Lady
So I feed her rails of cocaine
But the rain it falls like honey in the snow
OK!
'twas a horseman named Felipe
Not a word could she comprende
But she understood his urgency
'fore he marched off to the West
And I'm dancing with my Lady
And she has something to tell me
She shows to me the amulet
That dangles 'twixt her breasts
And when the letter came one chilly Friday
Saying that he'd been et by ants
She knew of nothing else to serve his mem'ry
Than to love him through her dance
So if you see my Lady
Just tell her that she's pretty
That's all a lovely lady
Needs to know
Labels: "all that jaws", fogelfoot, performance, podcast, pop
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by Marty Barrett at Thursday, April 24, 2008
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