2017 - July 30 - Jockey Full Of Bourbon

Some days I feel like picking a song just because... This is one of those days. I have played some Tom Waits before, and today I am revisiting Rain Dogs from 1985. The song is following a mambo rhythm, played in 4/4, but counted 1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2 for the 8th notes, giving a really cool syncopated rhythm that always has appealed to me. Marc Ribot's guitar is all over the song - his tone is as good as any signature - and Tom Waits sings about what I always have interpreted as a drunken night on the town. Please enjoy Jockey Full Of Bourbon!