Slow hand

Friend David Sessions has created a new blog featuring comments on music contemporary and old. Right now, Listening Sessions features a muse about one of Nashville's most Rhinestone of cowboys, Conway Twitty. Says Dave: "That scratchy, cigarette-coated voice, that over-the-top, staccato phrasing, that white man's afro."

Of course when I was younger and addicted to Sunny 95 FM, I loved Conway. Besides the obvious hits like "Slow Hand" and "Tight Fitting Jeans," my favorite song was "Hello Darlin'." For years I was convinced the opening lines to that song were:

Hello Darlin'
Nice to see you
It's been a long time
You're just as ugly as you used to be

Would have been better that way, I think. Just in case someone was looking for one, a Conway Twitty message board. Let me know how it is.