> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:43:45 -0600
> From: "Larry O Dean" <larryodean@poetrycenter.org>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Keene
> Message-ID: <20050928174345.52825.qmail@ns77.zabco.net>
> 
> Christopher Kouzes writes: 
> 
> > Speaking of Hey Little Child, Tommy Keene does an 
> incredible version of
> > this. Last time I saw Keene playing Chicago, he played that and Lou
> > Reed's Kill Your Sons back to back which was excellent.
> 
> Yes, it's ("Hey! Little Child") on the great Places That Are 
> Gone EP, which 
> was included on the Real Underground CD comp from 1993. 
> Essential listening, 
> if you ask me. "Kill Your Sons" cooks, too. 


I agree. And as for Tommy Keene playing "Hey! Little Child" at Schubas at the show Christopher mentioned (it's my favorite solo Chilton song, incidentally), by coincidence I was calling out for it. Not that Tommy was taking requests, of course, but sometimes that particular song is on his set list and sometimes it isn't. I got lucky, and it turned out to be on it that night. I have a bad track record at shows for calling out for songs that never get played.

I actually felt a little guilty about calling out for "Hey! Little Child", since it's a cover and there are so many cool songs Keene wrote himself that he can't cram into his set. But, hey, nobody forced him to cover it in the first place!


Gregory Sager