Album: The Fine Print: A Collection of Oddities and Rarities
Year: 2004
Recorded in 2004 for a tribute album that never got released, Drive-by Truckers cover of Tom T. Hall’s “Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)” is one of those rare times a band takes a 40-year-old song and makes it feel like it was written yesterday.
Which, given the subject matter — a paralyzed vet coming home for the first time — kinda sucks. Tom T. Hall wrote it about a Vietnam vet, but of course it still has resonance now for our vets coming home from Iraq or Afghanistan. And will sadly have resonance for whichever of the endless series of wars we find ourselves in next.
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