Back Home, for awhile.

im back home for the weekend
its a standard college ritual, going back to the parents place, for laundry and a hot meal, maybe some gas money, all of the above...

so im here, and its strange to see how little things really do change when you leave someplace and come back. its almost like i never left.
and i have to say,
living in LA has been hot
literally, hot
like even your sweat sweats.
and down here, in the san diego area, its perfect.

see, im glad its not 90 degrees every day
because that sucks.
here it's cloudy, and not really warm either. and i love it.
and im pretty sure everyone here is totally up in arms about it.

but like you might have noticed, according to the news, everyone is always displeased about the weather, because its boring to hear how good things are, apparently.

Nightly Video 9.25.08

For tonight, Tin Pan Alley, by Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Double Trouble

This song dates back to a song by the same name recorded by blues pianist Curtis Jones on Vocalion in 1941. My copy of "Couldn't Stand..." credits it to J. Reed. I went through the complete Jimmy Reed discography and it didn't turn up. "Roughest Place In Town" was recorded by another bluesman named James Reed in 1954. That's where SRV got his version from.
He heard it on a jukebox in a Lubbock, Texas barbecue joint where he was booked in his youth. The song was covered by other bluesmen such as Jimmy Wilson, Johnny Fuller, Ray Agee and Little Milton. Robert Geddings was a West Coast R&B record producer/label owner, in the 40's and 50's. He put his name on the song when Jimmy Wilson recorded his version in 1953. The James Reed version is the most direct version of the song lyrically to the SRV cover.

i hope you enjoy it as much as i do, and have a great night.
-jacob t.