Hi again, Val! After listening to Dave, The Cloverdale Kid, bring Cold Beer, I remembered this Michelle Shocked tune from her second album, Short Sharp Shocked, one I listened to until I couldn't anymore. I still love it, but had a really hard time finding a recording of it online. Thanks to my son Owen's excellent internet skills, I got to listen to it again on SoundCloud. If you've never had a listen to that album, do yourself a favor and try to find it. It's not on Spotify, I warn you. A little background: Texas used to have some counties that were dry counties, meaning they didn't sell alcohol. At all. (See Gillian Welch's fantastic song, Dry Town) Some places in Texas didn't used to sell alcohol on Sundays. In Oklahoma, my home state, the only beer you could buy in a grocery store was 3.2% alcohol by volume. Sheesh. Usually it's around 5 or 6%. It was the only state in the union that required that.
(Making The Run To) Gladewater
Michelle Shocked
1988
