Comments on: Ben’s 3rd Sorta-Annual Best Music I Heard This Year (2004)

By: ben

ben — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:53:17 +0000

Sloe gin is interesting. I can’t say that I’ve ever seem blackthorn plums (“sloe plums”) before — they apparently grow wild in Europe. I’ve only had one sloe gin myself, and I made it myself, so it probably wasn’t quite right.

I think the best thing it has going for it is the name, really :)

By: Hunter

Hunter — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:12:01 +0000

The women of country music are supposed to look plastic–have you ever taken a good look at Dolly Parton?

That one song about the sloe gin fizz implies they had an illicit love affair. My friends and I did all sorts of research about what goes into a sloe gin fizz while we were at the beach–we asked every bartender in Hilton Head. Finally we met this woman from Knoxville who had a friend named Dooner, whose mom used to own a bar, and she called Dooner and Dooner what was in one. So we came home from the beach and made them. A little sweet for my tastes, but if they’re good enough for Loretty they’re good enough for me.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:11:44 +0000

Honestly she does. She’s looking a little plastic on the cover of the album, but hoo-boy does she throw down! It’s no “Fist City” mind you, but it’s pretty close.

You know she and Jack White had an illicit love affair. He’d do it just to keep up his odd media appearance.

(At least, if I was writing the script of his life, that’d be how it would roll).

By: Hunter O.

Hunter O. — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:08:00 +0000

Thanks for the music summary–I love that Loretta Lynn album–every song on it is just great. My friends and I listened to it last summer on our beach trip, so it brings me many happy memories. I also like Loretta’s fabulous blue frilly dress on the album cover.