Artist: Dwight Yoakam [w/Flaco Jimenez]

The Pitfalls of the City are Extremely Real

Feb 20, 2011, 12:03am The Adios Lounge

photo by tapsjg Like California, Los Angeles has been rebuked and scorned in book, film, song, musical, vaudeville, pretty much every medium dating back to protozoan wall art. It's easy to hate LA. I don't have much of a problem with the city, beyond traffic, but the entertainment-industrial complex is a whoremaker chewing up everything in its path like a tornado made of assholes. I get the hate. So, let's channel that hate into song. Bicycle Thief - L.A. Country Hometown [...]

• Backsliders - Lexington Avenue
• Bicycle Thief - L.A. Country Hometown Blues
• Dwight Yoakam [w/Flaco Jimenez] - Carmelita
• Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - Sin City
• Iris DeMent - Big City
• Willie Nelson - Bloody Mary Morning

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Artist:	Backsliders
Title:	Lexington Avenue
Link Text:	Backsliders - Lexington Avenue
File Name:	k8tjuek2tz.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps
Genre:	12
Year:	1996

Artist:	Bicycle Thief
Title:	L.A. Country Hometown Blues
Link Text:	Bicycle Thief - L.A. Country Hometown Blues
File Name:	dhuomo0uej.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps
Genre:	80
Year:	1999

Artist:	Dwight Yoakam [w/Flaco Jimenez]
Title:	Carmelita
Link Text:	Dwight Yoakam (w/Flaco Jiménez) - Carmelita
File Name:	moyk56it06.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps
Genre:	2
Year:	1992

Artist:	Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
Title:	Sin City
Link Text:	Gram Parsons (w/Emmylou Harris) - Sin City
File Name:	95225pk45k.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps
Genre:	12
Year:	1973

Artist:	Iris DeMent
Title:	Big City
Link Text:	Iris DeMent - Big City
File Name:	447e9jt2td.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps
Genre:	2
Year:	1994

Artist:	Willie Nelson
Title:	Bloody Mary Morning
Link Text:	Willie Nelson - Bloody Mary Morning
File Name:	mv9502viy5.mp3
Bitrate:	139 kbps
Genre:	12
Year:	1978