Samuel L. Jackson - Alice Mae
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Just last night I saw the box-office failure that was The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Wikipedia says it made a piss-poor $6 million due to our countrymen having shit taste in film). Just an incredible flick. It happened to include the best musician-turned-actor of all time, Tom Waits.
Where creative endeavors constantly spin against the twisting tide of the toilet bowl is in the actor-turned-musician category. The classic example being Eddie Murphy, who should have gotten a record contract just after the 1985 Bears. But we all know Sam Jackson is a bad motherfucker. The fact that he made this song is completely unnecessary to liking it. It's such classic beer-house, call-and-response blues rock that it would be impressive from an actual musician. What truly shocked me was the complex flare of the off-lyric guitar line - it's got a seasoned fluidity no one can expect coming from an outsider. And lyrically, it's just spot on. Of course, he did steal the song from R.L. Burnside.It's that he managed to do it a bit of justice puts him way out ahead in the cross-discipline race.