Monkey Business Top Ten: Monkey Dance (#3)

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Eight days until daylight savings time ends and I’m already sick of autumn. Aw, well, we always complain about the weather….can’t wait for the heat to go, then when it’s cold we want the hot weather back. Time to stop monkeying around with the complaints! And time to monkey around with another song with “monkey” in the title, a countdown suggested by @DocAndersen (and I’m wondering if he’s regretting it by now…). Here’s today’s tune. #3: Monkey Dance - T-Bone Burnett John Henry Burnett is best known as a record producer. His works include albums by the BoDeans, Los Lobos, Marshall Crenshaw, Elvis Costello, and Elton John. In other words, lots of my favorites. He won a Grammy for his production work on the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou. Oh, and he co-wrote a song with Warren Zevon. So, of course I’m going to include him! Burnett is such an underrated songwriter, compounded by the fact that he’s such a highly-acclaimed producer, that his own music tends to get lost in the mix. Thanks to his work with Zevon, I got to know Burnett’s music before he became THE go-to Americana producer. Here T-Bone puts the typical sex-not-love story in a fabulous way (“she knows his lies are barefaced as she descends the staircase, her clothes are falling off her, he can’t resist her offer”). I really wish his music was as well-known as his production skills. Both are exceptional. Monkey Dance Written by T-Bone Burnett Recorded by T-Bone Burnett From The Talking Animals, 1987 He reads her Keats and Byron: