Last night, I hugged my dogs tight, attempting to shake myself out of a treacherous rut of low energy. We needed to play. So I cranked Ted Leo + Pharmacists and let the moshing begin! In one magical moment, I observed Gordon and Maddy’s intricate, um, furry tango twist and pause right in time with the opening of “Little Dawn”– just at that sweet spot after the bass joins in and TL’s guitar dives down to meet his rhythm boys. Shiver!
Here you’ll find a video of Ted Leo + Pharmacists performing “Little Dawn” live in a Unitarian church. I highly recommend going to the trouble of downloading it.
Eventually I decided to stop dancing with the dogs and sit down to the soup. I was skimming the table of contents of America: the Book, my new kitchen table read (several months coming from the public library), searching for an appropriate point of entry (”Hmm, I already checked out the nude Supreme Court at the airport bookstore…”) when “Shake the Sheets” led me straight to Chapter 6.
The TL+Rx site doesn’t offer audio of that one, but the others I find just as fabulous and inspiring (and maybe a little easier to access technically than the Unitarian gig).
Once you’ve converted, be sure to thank Caption Jockey. The motherscratcher is a music guru.
