http://houseofgerrish.com Devouring ideas Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:15:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://houseofgerrish.com/2009/11/12/charlie-winstons-american-ripoff-like-a-hobo/ http://houseofgerrish.com/2009/11/12/charlie-winstons-american-ripoff-like-a-hobo/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:26:51 +0000 greg http://houseofgerrish.com/?p=619 The first ten times I heard Charlie Winston’s Like a Hobo, it was muffled and scratchy coming from a friend’s Mac laptop speakers in another room. All I could feel was the driving beat and the soulful first-person story of a young man. I mistook it for a lighter, folksy cover of the Temptations’ Papa Was a Rolling Stone. Then I thought it might be a remake inspired by Hoochie Coochie Man, Muddy Waters’ song that starts off with a gypsy predicting to his pregnant mother that Muddy’s coming into the world as a damn baller — fine ladies, watch…

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