It wasn’t country music that did it to me...
It was this staple of “underground” rock radio from 1969.
Someday Soon turned me on to pedal steel around the time I got my driver’s license. I had no idea what the instrument was when I first heard the song on WBCN, the Rock of Boston, and the country connotation wouldn’t have chased me off anyway. I just loved the sound. Also, Jerry Garcia playing the instrument on Graham Nash’s Teach Your Children, the second version of which appeared on Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. And steel maestro Buddy Emmons playing jazz with Joe Venuti or Lenny Breau on Minors Allowed. Here, Judy Collins sings the Ian & Sylvia song from her 1969 Elektra album Who Knows Where the Time Goes. The lyrics are in the video with notes about the song.
Speaking of Ian & Sylvia, here’s the more successful (and better) rockin’ version of their song You Were on my Mind by We Five from 1965. Other songs of that ilk from that era, on every AM station, include Walk Away Renee by The Left Banke and Temptation Eyes by The Grass Roots. I remember all these groovy hits, note for note…
Best performance by an actor playing a country singer.
See what I mean? But he does it so well!
Not Dwight
Even sexier, and with some tasty steel to boot. Best lyric: “Tell me a secret before you meant to.”
You're not my boyfriend, I don't want a boyfriend.
Just make a little trouble over me.
In your kitchen, on the way to your window, walking down your hallway,
Make some trouble over me.
I'll play hard to get but if I mean it,
Just make a little trouble over me.
Leave me a lone. Do what you want to.
See, I got some things on my mind.
[Chorus]
Don't treat me bad, that's not what I'm asking.
Look out your window, everyone's in line.
Paper truth in strings, hearts and broken things,
Love goes for quite a price.
I don't want you for mine. Oh, but don't we get along fine.
Tell me a secret before you meant to.
Worry what I'll do. Trouble over me.
If you touch me, it's only by accident.
Oh, wrists and fingertips, trouble over me.
[Chorus]
In your kitchen, on the way to your window.
Walking down your hallway, make some trouble over me.
Button my coat up, stumble with your words some.
Let me think that you might go to a little
Trouble over me.
Just a little,
Just a little trouble,
Just a little trouble over me.