"Ingrid Bergman" (Wilco & Billy Bragg cover) - The Laptop Sessions

[Scrotemeister]

More practice needed.....

[everywordmeans]

there was a sudden transfiguration in our being states. We felt rapturous unto levitation and enlightenment and had out-of-body experiences whilst listening to you play and studying (perhaps study is too harsh a word, let us say we glanced with appreciation upon) your moustache. I conjectured to her that she was Ingrid Bergman reincarnated. Whereupon (and I tell you no lie here!) she began reciting the script from Casablana verbatim. it was and is PROOF that you were Sam in the movie, and...

[everywordmeans]

Me and my girlfriend are drinking Mezcal tonight, and we, or should I say more importantly I myself was interested in hearing this old saw from Woody Guthrie via Billy Bragg and Wilco, so that I could turn her on to the magic thereof. We perused the Billy Bragg versions of the song, but were disenchanted by his overly loquacious drivel on his acoustic didactic video milieu/ In other words, his talked too goddamn much. When we chanced upon your winsome and beatific rendition of the masterpiece...