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Loafing With Archers of Loaf

February 19, 2008

Today is "Archers of Loaf Day" on the DDC Factory Floor.It all started with a delivery from the mailman of VeeVee on vinyl. Heck yes. Now, when I got going on this vinyl quest a couple months back, well, my plan was to just get my "Top 25" favorite albums. Then that jumped to my "Top 50." Then it got real fucked up and got into the hundreds. Well, who knows where this madness will end. I'd like to thank Mark Phillips for opening this can of worms for me. Dammit.Here's what the opening track of "Step Into The Light" off VeeVee means to me: I was on my way back out west, and spent the night in a parking lot in Deadwood, South Dakota. I remember getting up pretty early, digging through my pile of discs in between the captain chairs of Big Al the mini-van and putting in VeeVee. That opening track, with that slow crawl drumbeat and the cold morning air, cruising the downtown gut of Deadwood, slow enough to pass up the little placard pointing into a casino where Wild Bill took a bullet in the back from Jack McCall and called it a day. That's what this album means to me: Driving through Western South Dakota. That would've been 1995 or something.And for the record, "Fabricoh" is my favorite cut off VeeVee.- - - -Something Leigh and I are going to see tonight: Off The Grid: Life On The MesaDesert rats taking the so-called laws into their own hands. Scary stuff.- - - -One of my all-time favorites: Uncle Tupelo's Chickamauga

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