Uncle Tupelo

不知道為什麼最近對鄉村音樂很有感覺。
聽廣播的時候聽到Uncle Tupelo的moonshiner，十分喜愛。
Uncle Tupelo是由伊利諾利的Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Mike Heidorn組成。活躍於八零末九零初，在1994年Farrar因為跟 Tweedy有嫌隙而分道揚鑣了。而後Farrar另組新團，正是現在的Wilco。
moonshiner歌詞淺白，卻有濃厚的蒼涼感，當你忽然感到生命之無味時，勿聽。

I've been a moonshiner
for seventeen long years
and I spent all my money
on whiskey and beer
and I go to some hollow
and set up my still
if whiskey don't kill me
Lord, I don't know what will

and I go to some barroom
to drink with my friends
where the women they can't follow
to see what I spend
God bless them pretty women
I wish they was mine
with breath as sweet as
the dew on the vine

let me eat when I'm hungry
let me drink when I'm dry
two dollars when I'm hard up
religion when I die
the whole world is a bottle
and life is but a dram
when the bottle gets empty
Lord, it sure ain't worth a damn