"Yeah, those angels of mercy used to sing and beg down in Pershing Square L.A. Voices that haunted me and still do. Lost nightmare Jesus sounds coming out of the coins rattling in a cup from two blind ladies. I was born in the 'city of angels' in the late 1940s. Down on Hope Street near Pershing Square and Clifton’s Cafeteria and the Pantry. And all them old strip joints on Fifth and Main. You know, tonight, White Fury and Her Twin 44s. Charles Bukowski territory. Beat outsider American and the sound that’s been lost from that time. Taken off the radios. You had to have been there. The backdrop is McArthur Park and Hollywood court apartments and racetracks. The old America where music still resonated through night clubs. People gambled and drank and screwed and smoked. People went down to the border and sipped highballs and cocktails and went to the bullfights. The old America where the big guilt and political correctness and the chain stores hadn’t sunk in so deep." —Tom Russell, "Old America," Hotwalker, 2005
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