That Rock and Roll Lifestyle
Musicians have been writing about making music for a long time. There are plenty of famous songs about being a working musician on the road, like Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again," or Bob Seger's "Turn the Page," or Jackson Browne's "The Load-Out." Other songs of this nature might focus on a particular performer - real or fictional - like Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" or David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust." I am, of course, omitting dozens of songs that would fit this theme (it's a blog, we don't have time). For a while now, I've been collecting a sub-genre of the "working musician" song, a sort of satire, often self-deprecating. These songs are funny - sometimes in a dark way - but they're not full-on gag songs. We're not talking about a song like "Opening Band" by Paul & Storm (as fitting as that song is). The playlist I have assembled so far has three broad