After hearing NRBQ perform this song for ages, I can’t imagine any female doing this song justice…. agreed? (Would their rocket be literal or figurative?)
One of my favorite bands, one that many have never heard.
Let’s remedy that right now. Here’s NRBQ on TV performing their version of the Rockabilly song "I’ve Got A Rocket In My Pocket), recorded by Jimmy Lloyd Logsdon (think he’s from the South?
) in 1958:
https://youtu.be/-d5Hdqyjj5o?si=3iELCJIsqyBfdAJc
By the way, bassist/singer/songwriter Joey Spampinato is Keith Richards’ favorite bassist. He offered him the job of replacing Bill Wyman when Bill quit The Stones, and Joey turned him down! He DID accept the job of playing in the band Keith assembled to back Chuck Berry in the live performance seen in the movie he made about him.
Pianist/singer/songwriter Terry Adams is obviously no "normal" keyboard player. Along with all the Rock ’n’ Roll guys, his influences also include the likes of Sun Ra and Thelonious Monk. A great live peformer!
And here’s the studio recording of the song by one of my favorite singers, Lou Ann Barton:
https://youtu.be/6r0cXbFGi_U?si=AGnz4fVf03y0oRex
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When Lou Ann performs the song live, a "knowing" smile will occasionally cross her face. I wanted to post one of her live performances of the song (especially one with The Fabulous Thunderbirds), but none had the "Share" option underneath the video screen on YouTube. A search for one of those videos is suggested!
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I can see how your liking for Garth Hudson dovetails with NRBQ.
For the uninitiated, Lou Ann live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBo0z7mFEgE&list=PLAI-4-sucob_Mm5e9yXXaiLWGRfHKl_3e&index=5
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Man @stuartk, that’s Lou Ann when she was much younger! By the way, Lou Ann was the singer in an Austin band named Triple Threat, which featured a young guitar player named Stevie Ray Vaughan. Lou Ann tours regularly with Stevie’s older brother Jimmie. She strikes me as being "one of the boys", in both drinking and, ahem, carousing. Her debut album on Asylum Records (entitled Old Enough) was produced by Jerry Wexler, and features the fantastic Muscle Shoals studio band known as The Swampers. A musically great album, and it sounds better than do many of Wexler’s other productions (Aretha Franklin for one), perhaps because it was co-produced by Glenn Frey.
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