Trampled by Turtles and Deer Tick – “White Freightliner Blues”
Trampled by Turtles performed at Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater in Austin, Texas on Jan. 14. Opening act Deer Tick invited TBT to join in a cover of Townes Van Zandt’s “White Freightliner Blues.” The video was shot by Evan Adamson and Scott Perry, edited by Scott Perry and mixed by Adam Krinsky.
If only these guys moved me half as much as say one of Bob Seger’s mediocre tunes. I’m thinking “Like a Rock” or “Accompany Me.” Makes you wonder what happened to this idea of writing a song that contains actual human emotion. Like Zuckerberg pretending to be a real human boy.
On the subject of worshipful cults, Townes Van Zandt had exactly one good song. One and a half if you count “”Pancho and Lefty.” But even if you had no place to fall, Austin would be last on your list. A sad shell of its former self and currently owned by Jeffrey Bezos. You can hop from one rooftop to the next going sixty miles west until you finally breathe a sigh of relief you are no longer in this godforsaken hell-scape of overpriced WTF.