Dear Radio Dodo Listener,
Ooooh! Today's song is so good! If you have been tuning in for a while, you will see that Tom Petty is often played here; because I love his descriptions of how we feel. And that is that. But there is also, the fact that my favorite Petty songs are sung by women. "Don't Come Around Here No More," is made more, made larger by Rhiannon Giddens. You'll hear it. It isn't an opinion, it is a fact. There is also, as further evidence, Lucinda Williams singing "Changed the Locks." These versions are peerless.
* I wonder, too, as I imagine you do, what would it be like if we put our feet in those boots? How would we walk and where to? I think about this with the artifacts of other people too; Judy Garland's ruby slippers, Johnny Cash's big black Manuel Cueva's suits, Linda Ronstadt's cub scout uniform, the fantasy of inhabiting those people and places. I know I'd want to wear these things into the Seven 11, and I would want to smoke heroin, and I wouldn't take any guff wearing these duds, not even from my relatives.
