eugene chadbourne, “honey don’t”
from: there’ll be no tears tonight, 1980
Eugene Chadbourne
Avant-garde improvisation and country and western music may not be obvious candidates for genre blending but Eugene Chadbourne’s love of both made him the perfect person to undertake this 1980 project. With a young John Zorn and a few other like-minded downtown NYC players they reshape this Carl Perkins tune in an affectionately bent direction. Chadbourne went on to a career of countless collaborations with jazz, rock, and country players.
-Maury Martin-
“Well, how can you say you will, when you won’t
You tell me you do, baby, when you don’t?
Let me know, honey, how you feel
Tell the truth now is love real
Ah-hah, oh honey don’t, well honey don’t
Honey don’t, no honey don’t, hey honey don’t
Say you will when you won’t, ah-hah honey don’t
Well, I love you, baby, and you ought to know
I like the way that you wear your clothes
Everything about you is so doggone sweet
You got that sand all over your feet
So ah-hah, hey honey don’t, honey don’t
Well honey don’t, ah-hah honey don’t, honey don’t
Say you will when you won’t, ah-hah honey don’t
Well, sometimes I love you on a Saturday night
Sunday morning you don’t look right
You’ve been out painting the town
Uh huh baby, been stepping around
So ah-hah, hey honey don’t, well honey don’t
Honey don’t, honey don’t, well honey don’t
Say you will when you won’t, ah-hah honey don’t
Well well, honey don’t, oh honey don’t
Yeah honey don’t, honey don’t
Say you will when you won’t, ah-hah honey don’t”
Mr. Perkins
40 plus lps from Mr. Chadbourne and counting, the above from 1989