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Cotton's electric influences have far from absorbed the band's other styles. Poco has long included an acoustic segment in their shows, pickin' their way through "You Are the One," "Honky-Tonk Downstairs," and their medley of "Hard Luck," "Child's Claim to Fame," and "Pickin' up the Pieces." The acoustic songs, particularly "Honky-Tonk Downstairs," retain much more country feeling than the electric music. These songs are Rusty Young's, and he acknowledges his pedal steel predecessors with some of the purest country steel guitar outside Nashville on "Honky-Tonk," and his own instrumental "Grand Junction," with...
...Harp Boy." similar to but better than Spoonful and with Beefheart's excellent blues harp. From the third album, Trout Mask Replica (with a catfish on the cover), produced by Zappa (after Bob Krasnow and Blue Thumb records overproduced and cheated Beefheart) famous for Doug Moon's delta blues pickin' and Beefheart's singin' on "China Pig," they played "Big Joan Sets Up," a new version, "My Human Get's Me Blues" ("I saw you baby dancing in yer x-ray gingham dress. I knew you were under duress. I knew you under your dress. Keep on comin Jesus...
...record was produced by the great Huey P. Meaux, who is responsible for the Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson hits, "Lover's Holiday," "Soulshake," and "Pickin Wild Mountain Berries." Meaux kept almost all the cuts simple, melodic, and less than three minutes long. The best of them are the amazingly pompous and melodramatic "I Can't Take Another Heartache" and "Put It On Me." Talbert pulls off singing such ludicrous songs only on the strength of his fantastic voice, which falls just a little short of Screaming Jay Hawkins...
...also salute North Carolina's great gubernatorial power, who, despite his veto handicap (North Carolina Governors do not have the power of veto), proclaims such earthshaking events as "North Carolina Possum Pickin' Day," "National Hollerin' Day" and "Frog Jumping...
...reaching me because he's too small to reach me. He's reachin' and strainin' with those hooks, and they're getting longer and longer. And now he's lunging and jumping, and that's when I started popping and smoking. I'm looking for the opening, lookin' and pickin' and then I see it. Now I'm sprinting, but I'm sprinting in the ring. Now I got him in trouble and I'm chopping him with the right hand, and he don't know how to run, where to go. Then...