Starting time: early afternoon <br />On sunday. no sleep for chuck who <br />Played til five a.m. in some <br />Lawton, oklahoma after- <br /> <br />Hours dive. still drunk when recording <br />Began...continued to drink <br />All thru our date. condition of <br /> <br />Course would deteriorate more <br />As the session progressed so <br />By late afternoon: on the ad- <br /> <br />Lib blues i will call 'all nite gig' <br />Chuck concludes his ride with this loud <br />Violent sound-blast, offensive <br />As a brawler's punch, swinging hard! <br /> <br />'I saw him strike the instrument <br />With tremendous force', a right hand <br />Assault with his straight pick raked <br /> <br />Across all ten open strings to <br />Belch this ugly summation of <br />The boozy blues licks heard slurred. <br /> <br />Of course it's full of distortion <br />And you'll never suffer a kick- <br />Ass steel chord rude as this one, see. <br /> <br />The last song, 'i love you because' <br />Spreads the sound of whiskey-saturated <br />Love. my hope long grown tired <br /> <br />On this sad and difficult day. <br />I thought my purpose defeated when <br />Just then, from his tortured steel... <br /> <br />At once i heard beyond the merely meant. <br /> <br />Only thru he i'd placed before me <br />Could so indiscreet a weeping note, <br />Broken as he (or a heart betrayed) , <br /> <br />Grant all my misgivings their erasure.<br /><br />johnny case<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/something-happened-near-the-end-of-a-long-painful-recording-session/
