The Little Willies - Lou Reed

I watched a Jim Jarmusch movie today and remembered that The Little Willies mention him in this song. He says music is a big influence on his film work. Tom Waits was in the one I watched tonight called Down By Law. He was also in Coffee and Cigarettes along with Iggy Pop, Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes, RZA and GZA of Wu Tang Clan, and several big name movie stars. But I guess all this is for another blog, so Phil, you are going to have to review some Jim Jarmusch films. And the rest of you can read his reviews using the link in my Suggested Links section.

The Little Willies is a side project of Norah Jones'. That wouldn't be my first choice for a band name. I wonder how excited the guys were about it?  They released one album that contains 9 classic country cover songs and 4 original songs, and it is one that I can listen to all the way through and sometimes repeat.

Lou Reed - written by Lee Alexander, Richard Julian  and Norah Jones from the album The Little Willies (2006)

We were driving through West Texas

The land of beef and pork

Where they tan the hides of leather

We wear back in New York

In a pasture, along a roadside

Behind a brokedown shack

On the dusky side of evening

We saw a figure dressed in black

And we don't mean to sound like we're trippin'

But we swear to God

We saw Lou Reed cow tippin'

Cow tippin'

Hey Lou, "Is that you?"

She said as we pulled to the shoulder

He just said, "Go screw."

And then he turned and tipped one over

Under a spitshine Western sky

The color of boot varnish

Hey it's like Fellini

Actually I'm thinking more like Jim Jarmusch

And we can't say how much we've been sippin'

But we swear to God

We saw Lou Reed cow tippin'

Cow tippin'

I got cops on the cell

I said I got a little story to tell

Lou Reed is in the cow pen

They said, Oh no! Not again!

And we hope our perception isn't slippin'

But we swear to God

We saw Lou Reed cow tippin'

Cow tippin'

Cow tippin'

Cow tippin'

Cow tippin'

You really think that was Lou Reed?

Cow tippin'

I'm sure it was, he was wearing black Levi's

Cow tippin'

I thought he was a vegetarian

Cow tippin'

He's just tipping them over, he wasn't eating them

Cow tippin'

Oh

Cow tippin'