A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]
I'm a big believer in rock & roll dreams. As one can tell from the opening passage of Jittery White Guy Music:
So, naturally, I'm a sucker for singer-songwriter Amy Rigby's jaunty "I Was Dancing With Joey Ramone" (from her 2005 Little Fugitive LP). It's not the first song in which esteemed women in rock pay homage to the punk icon--that would probably be Sleater-Kinney's gob-smacking "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone." But whereas that one (recorded while Joey was still among the living) was aspirational, punk rock grrrls respectfully establishing their desire (and ability) to take up the Ramones' mantle, Rigby, as per all of her best work, is unabashedly sentimental, posthumously bringing the late singer back for one mid-dream dance party soundtracked by all his favorite 60s tunes.
It's heartwarming, though Rigby's last-second pivot into the Ramones' tell-tale 1-2-3-4 count-off shows her to be every bit the I-can-do-it-too rock-girl-with-big-dreams as the ladies of Sleater-Kinney.
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