Delbert McClinton- Lay Down Sally

I never listened to Don Imus.
He and Howard Stern have both just been on my avoidance list.
I've never really been a radio deejay fan.
Morning shows are the worst.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, etc.
Just play the stinking song, for crying out loud.
There is one exception...Mara Davis from Dave FM here in Atlanta.
She has the late morning/early afternoon shift at Dave.
At noon every weekday morning, she has Radio Free Lunch.
This is where she plays songs with a certain theme for an hour.
Listeners can call in, email, or Facebook their requests.
Today's theme was "Songs For Stranded Cruise Passengers" in "honor" of the Carnival cruise ship that had a fire, lost power, and was drifting out at sea.
She played songs like "Hungry Like The Wolf", "Dancing In The Dark", "Stuck In A Moment", etc. You get the picture.
So I do like one DJ.
But, I never got into the shock jocks.
Especially because of some of the negative things that I've heard that they've said.
Such as Imus calling the Rutgers women's basketball team, "nappy-headed hos".
Very classy.
But, I recently heard that Imus and his wife run a ranch for kids with cancer and also siblings of SIDS victims.
That kind of makes up for on-air stupidity, but not really.
At any rate, recently Imus hand-picked a group of artists to sing certain songs that were recorded for an album benefiting the ranch called "The Imus Ranch Record".
It has vocals from singers such as Dwight Yoakam, Little Richard, Vince Gill, and Lucinda Williams.
My favorite, I think, is this particular number by Delbert McClinton, a singer-songwriter that's been in the game since the early 60's.
We'll return to the "Our Story" posts soon. The last one was a little emotionally draining and we needed a break. Go Dawgs!