Well, it won’t be long now
Until that ol' sun goes down
And darkness helps me hide my shameful tears
My wife works all night long
For a man who’s halfway gone
She’s a barmaid in the Honky Tonk Downstairs
It’s a shame she wears the name
Of a man who’s locked and chained
To a bottle that’s destroyed all hopes and cares
To the men with hungry eyes
She works and hides her pride
She’s a barmaid in the Honky Tonk Downstairs
A great band that had a great following in Boston and St. Louis and not so much elsewhere. Ritchie Furay saw the success of Crosby Still Nash & Young, Loggins & Messina and even the Eagles (all made of ex-band members of groups he was in) and it sort of ate at him. Geffen held out the promise of super-stardom with Souther-Hillman-Furay band but it only had limited success and took him away from Poco. Poco was always one of my favorite groups. From the Inside - an album they didn't much like (Steve Cropper produced) is a gem.
I was crashing with a friend at an apartment near IU that belonged to a couple of girls he knew. They had just gotten this album and played it for us. I played it continuously while we visited that week. A month or two later we came back and again stayed with the ladies, only they were so tired of hearing it constantly that they had given it away. Here I am listening to it again (I'm 77 now.) and it's still as good as the first time.
Saw them live in Washington, DC, at a free open air concert at American University, in 1970. It was the original line-up except for Randy Meisner. Outstanding event as I vaguely recall.
Great cover of a George Jones classic. Jimmy Messina IMHO is one of the great, and tremendously underrated pickers of his era. I tell all of my guitar students to check him out . Never stupid fast ; Always tasteful.
