Music
In 1990, his album Backslider's Tractor Pull won an award for Comedy Album of the Year by the National Association of Independent Record Distributors. Found on that album is perhaps his most famous parody of the all-American icon, Waffle House. In his song, "Waffle House Fire", while never outright offensive or disdainful of the enterprise, he subtly captures the mood and tenor of the 3:00 a.m. insanity that exists therein, and which would likewise attract and imprison a restless soul in what he phrases "a 24-hour breakfast hell."
On his album Unchained Maladies, he covered Tom Lehrer's I Hold Your Hand In Mine.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“So gladly, from the songs of modern speech
Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free
Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers,
And through the music of the languid hours,
They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”
—Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”
—Van Morrison (b. 1945)
“He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)