So there we were... sitting, reading, casually listening to Pandora... when Boz Scaggs' incredibly bluesy "Loan Me a Dime" slides out of my Very Expensive Radio like the whiskey-fueled cri d' coeur it most certainly is. It's the song's subject matter (and its delivery)... Mr. Scaggs wants the loan of a dime to call his old-time-use-ta-be... that can prompt one of those ill-advised three a.m. phone calls to your "old time use-ta-be." Assuming you've had your share of strong drink, of course. Don't ask how I know, Gentle Reader, but it's prolly not what you think. We shall NOT digress further, it being sufficient to say that happened well over 30 years ago in a place far, far away.
Back to the music. Hearing the tune sent me to the Tube o' You, of course. I'd hoped to find the original 1969 version of the tune (which was the one I heard on my VER, God Bless Pandora). Alas. While there appears to be one such... flawed as it is... AND it has that cursed "embedding disabled by request" bullshit. That version of the tune is here (a live cut done in '69; it features Duane Allman who played on the studio version) if'n you're inclined to go listen to one of the BEST blues tunes ever recorded, bar none. Mr. Scaggs is in fine voice there, the audio quality is excellent, and Mr. Allman's guitar work is simply... well, it's Duane Allman. No comparisons, adjectives, or superlatives really work. Note that the frickin' tune ends abruptly at the 9:55 minute mark, and that's a terrible thing... especially since it omits the guitar interplay between Scaggs and Allman. A rather poor mix of what's omitted in the first link is here. I say "poor mix" because the essential horn riffs are much more prominent in the original album mix. Ah, well. Everyone's a critic, right?
I DO go on. In the mean time there's this reasonable facsimile:
Can ya loan me a dime?
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