Cowboy Junkies & Robert Cray

I'm not personally acquainted with any junkies, but I've seen them on TV, and they don't seem to take their duties toward cats very seriously. Can you imagine how hard it would be to get your strung-out person to fill the kibble bowl or scoop the poops out of the litter box?

I do live across the way from a cowboy who has five cats that he takes good care of, although his attempts to herd them are always futile. Quelle suprise!
The Cowboy Junkies are neither cowboys nor junkies, but Canadians, and their music does have a country flavor.
Wikipedia confirms this: "Although it didn't originally have anything to do with their sound, the Cowboy Junkies' name wound up seeming pretty accurate: their music was grounded in traditional country, blues, and folk, yet drifted along in a sleepy, narcotic haze that clearly bore the stamp of the Velvet Underground. The vast majority of their songs were spare and quiet, taken at lethargic tempos and filled with languid guitars and detached, ethereal vocals."
I was lulled into my own cat-nip-enhanced haze by the band's best-known song, "Sweet Jane." Unfortunately, I was immediately jarred out of my slumber by my person, who insisted on singing along with "Blue Moon Revisited (A Song for Elvis)" not once, but three times in a row! Hear "Blue Moon Revisited" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ6EGsZdxpE
When you're ready for your own cat nap, try this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XVJj4jER4

Before I could doze off again, my person put on Robert Cray and commenced an embarrassing air-guitar routine. I just shut my eyes and concentrated on the music.
Cray's Strong Persuader is aptly named, but then, I don't really need much persuading when it comes to blues guitar. I'd heard Bettye Lavette's version of David Walker's "Right Next Door"--which is where this album's title comes from--but it's sung from the cheatin' woman's perspective. (By the way, I'll be reviewing Lavette, if we ever get to the L section in our music collection.) Cray plays and sings the song as the seducer, which seems to be the better approach, but then, I'm a cat, and our whole gig is about persuading our people to give us what we want.
Every cut on Strong Persuader is executed well, but my favorite is "New Blood." When Cray sang, "I hear that night wind howling: time to find new blood," I decided to go outside and do a little mouse hunting. But first, I hunted up a little Robert Cray for you to check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra2Qndv_xeE 
Peace out!