Comments on: Mose Allison / Patricia Barber http://birdhouse.org/blog/2005/10/28/mose-allison-patricia-barber/ Like a chicken with a jewel in its beak. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mal http://birdhouse.org/blog/2005/10/28/mose-allison-patricia-barber/comment-page-1/#comment-5696 mal Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:43:25 +0000 http://www.birdhouse.org/wordpress/?p=1752#comment-5696 I saw Mose once maybe 10 years ago and really enjoyed it. His wit and humor really made for a great show, as did a full array of some of his best songs.

My favorite Mose Allison memory though is driving through empty streets of industrial Oakland about 15 years ago on a Sunday and seeing some old white guy crossing the street wearing a Mose Allison T-Shirt. I think it said MOSE ALLISON FOR PRESIDENT – in plain white letters that looked like the style of iron on tshirt messages from the 70s. Always wondered if it could have been Mose himself, and even if it wasn’t the memory of the doubletake I did when I saw that shirt, in that context, lingers on with me as much as Mose’s songs do…

how’s it go – “Your Molecular Structure is really something fine, a first rate example of Intelligent Design”? ;^0

No, wait, it’s more like:

“Your molecular structure is really something swell / a high frequency modulated jezebel / Thermodynamically, you’re getting to me,�

says Mal, whose mind is on vacation but his mouth is workin’ overtime.

]]> By: Sean Graham http://birdhouse.org/blog/2005/10/28/mose-allison-patricia-barber/comment-page-1/#comment-5695 Sean Graham Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:22:09 +0000 http://www.birdhouse.org/wordpress/?p=1752#comment-5695 I saw Mose about two years ago at a high school (i believe it was in ipswitch). It was such a fantastic show... The whole experience was hypnotic, I could have sat there for days listening to him play.. I saw Mose about two years ago at a high school (i believe it was in ipswitch). It was such a fantastic show… The whole experience was hypnotic, I could have sat there for days listening to him play..

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