Change It
Is this the dad or the son? Pretty weird that it's hard to tell. Some old black dude dancing. Black and white footage outside Antone's. Must be the older Doyle. Black and white is another arty standard for videos. It makes everything classier. That and chicks in tight dresses. Doyle is in an alley. I think he's wondering when his son will return with the drug score. Lots of raindrops hitting water. Bluesy.
Pantera
Planet Caravan
Like, wow, stars, dude. Pass the bong. Do not take the brown acid! I repeat, do not take the brown acid! A nut exploded on the moon and trees sprout. Bad trip. The trees look like deer antlers. This is computer animation crap. Here comes a snake (welcome, Mr. Freud. Take a seat and relax). I'm getting woozy. Hello, Mr. Bee. Have you met Mr. Freud? Freud, Bee. Bee, Freud. The flowers are having orgasms.
Ingrid Karklins
Race The Sky
Latvian new age music here we come. Ingrid sways to the beat. Check out her web site. Wow. Some dude painted white is stretching by the water. Ingrid takes a dip. She's naked now with her knees to her chest. Very unique sound. I think I saw the white guy in an old Madonna video.
Junior Brown
Sugarfoot Rag
Junior has a cool car. This is probably my favorite Junior instrumental. Play that guit-steel, pardner. Vacation footage from France. France is big in videos. There's the Eiffel Tower. He's on a carrousel now. Wait, there's Big Ben. We're in London now. Junior drives a golf cart around the castle grounds. Lots of sunflowers. Junior puts on a knight's helmet and a cowboy hat. Guit with it.
Cotton Mather
April's Fool
Another chick doing her laundry, only her breasts are larger. These guys sound like Nick Lowe. Stonehenge laundry. April is ironing while a Boy Scout watches. He takes pictures as the clothes burn. No blonde wigs, though.
Michelle Solberg
Thinking Of You
Very arty. People are painting weird designs in an art class as Michelle dances. I saw her once at the Cactus Cafe and couldn't understand a word she sang. Always figured she was destined for MTV. Shows what I know. Now the artists are painting women's faces.
The Reverend Horton Heat
One Time For Me
Knee high boots in the bathroom. The Reverend rocks! Kinky chicks dance for the camera. More fake home movie shit. More dancing. Great song, great band, so-so video. Lots of flames in the background score big for me.
Tripping Daisy
Blown Away
Claymation and psychodelica. Groovy. We're in the claymation factory now. A head is going up. Now it attaches to a body. Trippy song. They melt down guns. WARNING--political statement. Claymation rock stars don't look that much different than regular rock stars.
MC 900 FT Jesus
If I Only Had A Brain
Dufus sees newspaper ad for company in Dallas that buys brains (like they'd find any there). Now he's in a box on the front porch. The mailman picks him up. The box arrives at the factory. Gets thrown out the window. He does a disco dance in his box. Now the box is sent by boat to another country. It's kicked by hippies. A kid steals it. He knits in his box. Box falls down a hill on kid's wagon. Bye bye, box.
81/2 Souvenirs
Happy Feet
Shoe shine guy sets people's feet on fire. Concert footage from the Continental Club where these guys rule almost as much as Junior Brown. This is a peppy, jazzy thing. A tattooed guy wandered onto the screen. I'm happy and peppy and bursting with love.
James McMurtry
Levelland
We're in the sticks now. A car goes down a lonely country road. This is Larry's son. You know, the guy who wrote Lonesome Dove. James is depressed. A semi-rocking folky. One nasty looking bed. Somebody needs to clean this house. I love those rolling sprinklers they use on the farm. It's dusty in West Texas. They don't understand James there.
Dale Watson
South of Round Rock Texas
A band playing outside the Continental Club. Very cool rockabilly. Dale jams from the top of the Broken Spoke, with the state Capitol in the background, on the golf course with Ray Bensen, on the shore of Town Lake. There's the Geezinslaws joining in. A very local video.
Starfish
Runaround
A chick dives into the water. The current is strong. She's swimming with it. She dives in off the cliffs at Campbell's Hole on Barton Creek. A shot of Cinema West, the porno theater they shut down on South Congress. A band plays in somebody's bedroom. Lots of bedrooms and driving around in videos.