Robert Christgau named 'Stuff Like That' the second-best album of 2015. / * - Besides the Cure, also covers of The Lovin' Spoonful, Funkadelic and Hank Williams (now _there's_ a combination you don't see too often ... LsA).
* - Lowell George (of Little Feat) was the original producer but was replaced by John Hall (of the group Orleans, then from 2007 to 2011 the U.S. representative for New York's 19th congressional district), when Raitt became unhappy with his production. Raitt - "It's hard having a strong woman telling the man her ideas when, in fact, the man wants to take over the situation."
* On Maxanne Sartori's show - March 18th, 1973 // ** - also recorded by Roy Orbison, March 1961 - click the Link above, left to read all 191 versions of this Boudleaux Bryant classic. Parsons' cover was the seventh, OVER a year before Nazareth's hit version was released in the US (March 1975), and it took Nazareth's version another 8 months to make the Billboard Top-100 (Nov 1975).
* - Although Alexander wrote this song, and Steve Alaimo had a hit with it in 1962 _and_ many other artists {Dusty Springfield, The McCoys, The Gentrys} recorded it afterwards, VERY ODDLY Alexander did not record his own version until 1975, a decent-sized hit for him. Click on the Link above, to view all 52 versions of this song.
* - and his first release since successfully battling throat cancer / Recorded in 1929 in Memphis, Tennessee // Click the Link above, left to view the CD.
* - According to Colin Escott's 2004 book "Hank Williams: The Biography", fiddler Jerry Rivers always claimed that when Hank came up with the opening line, "Today I passed you on the street," and then asked for suggestions, steel guitarist Don Helms replied, "And I smelled your rotten feet."
