It’s been a long time since we’ve heard a better working man’s party song that American Anodyne‘s “Call My Brother.”
“I might get drunk tonight, get in a fight, ’til I hear the cops enroute.
Get ‘em up off their lazy asses, it’ll do ‘em some good to get out.
At the end of the day, in a town this size, there ain’t too much to shout about.
I might just get drunk tonight, call my brother to bail me out.”
So sings American Anodyne’s Erick Jones with the help of Chris Thacker, Kevin Rainwater and about a hunnerd of his crazy-assed friends. It’s a rough around the edges but in the grand tradition of Robert Earl Keen‘s “The Road Goes On Forever,” it’s a hell of a party song.
We could go on forever but it’ll be better if you just download the song and play it for your brother. He’ll need to know what you’re talking about when you sing it to him over the phone this Saturday night.
