{"id":18154,"date":"2015-12-01T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=18154"},"modified":"2015-11-30T19:17:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T03:17:56","slug":"morning-music-psycho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/12\/01\/morning-music-psycho\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Music: Psycho"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Almost<\/a>When I was in graduate school, a fellow student loaned me a copy of Almost Blue<\/a><\/em>. I had avoided it because it was just an album of covers — and country covers at that. But I was blown away with how much I liked it. Some time later, I bought a re-issue of the album, that contained a whole bunch more songs. And there at number 18 was Costello’s version of Leon Payne’s song “Psycho.”<\/p>\n

It is a perfect song. It tells a very compelling and complete story while maintaining the emotional core that all songs should have. It also has perhaps the best payoff line of any song I can think of. It reinforces the theme of the song while re-framing the plot. The interesting thing is that I have found no one covering the tune before Costello. He seems to have been alone in realizing what a great tune it is.<\/p>\n

There is a live version<\/a> (but I can’t embed it). So here is the album cut:<\/p>\n