The Hold Steady

Lately I have been listening to far too much of "The Hold Steady". This isn't just because I haven't synced my iPod in a while, it was prep to see them live. Last Thursday I went to see them with Joe at the State Theater. The show was very high energy and the crowd was really in the groove, except for one sort of slow song no one recognized.

It was really hard to pick a favorite tune that they sang, but their rendition of "Cattle and the Creeping Things" was awesome. Here is sample from a verse, just to give you some flavor of their lyrics.

"he's got the pages in his pockets that he ripped out of the bible from his bedstand in the motel. he likes the part where the traders get chased out from the temple. i guess i heard about original sin. i heard the dude blamed the chick. i heard the chick blamed the snake. i heard they were naked when they got busted. i heard things ain't been the same since ..." -- Cattle and the Creeping Things