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Story of Rustmouth and Silent Bird Wallace Monday, December 18, 2006 • read strip Viewing 26 comments:

I guess rice can be pretty hard to eat, sometimes.

especially if you don't have a tongue. think about it. it would get stuck in all your various mouth crevices and you would have to extract it with your fingers.

The San Francisco treat

Tragedy is excellent.

Rating: 5.

the story was good, but the bottom right corner = perfect score.

Achewood has so many side-stories and characters with minor involvement with the main characters that I hope against hope that there will be a Smuckles Family Tree comic done in the same vein as "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck"

That comic was awesome .

I love this concept, that the best blues player is logically the least lucky, regardless of anything else.

Ohhh, the blues.

here is an old recording of goodnight irene btw.

https://www-cdf.lbl.gov/~av/gI10-34_78-av31-deriv51-RIAA-mcm.wav

tom waits did a cover too. imagine him as rustmouth

Yeah, I was about to bring that up. Tom's voice really suits the song, since he sounds like (and looks like) he just walked out of the 20's or so.

That is a huge barroom favorite. I'm sort of a skinny, intellectual-looking kid, but imagine me with one arm around a biker and one arm around my rather large and luberjackish friend, swaying back and forth bellowing out IREEEENE GOODNIIIIIGHT IREEEENE!

Oh, the joys of music. And whiskey.

I got confused and tried to sing it to the tune of "Come On Eileen."

This presents an entirely different image of the aforementioned trio.

I've read through the archive a couple times and have done the same thing each time; each time getting to your comment and realizing I did it again.

Luberjackish? That sounds odd.

"I'm sort of a skinny, intellectual-looking kid..."

You mean NERD.

Silent Bird Wallace was from Circumstances.

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Nice Pete: What is plastic? No one will say.

you are so awesome.

just, so...so awesome.

5 for the Leadbelly reference

So are Ray's D&G glasses a family heirloom, or was the Dolce & Gabbana brand considered very unfortunate during the Blues Age?

The last paragraph is possibly my favourite Achewood quote thusfar.

"...suddenly Rustmouth wasn't the unluckiest man alive anymore. Just his luck."

mmm mmm mmm sweet irony

Trying to commit suicide by rolling off the bed is such a depressing mental image. Truly worthy of a blues artist.

I love the idea that the crowd at Silent Bird's show would let him suffer paying for his wooden tongue, since if they each gave a dollar and pooled the money then they'd be buying out Wallace's blues-cred.