The Clockwork Dolls - "The Ballad of Black Jack Jezebel"

This is easily and by far my favorite Clockwork Dolls song. It works its way under your skin with the power of understatement and I think it gives us a glimpse into the future of Allison Curval as a composer. Yes, it takes its primary cue from the theme to Joss Whedon's FIREFLY, but as an insidiously listenable and subtle composition, it gives us the greatest glimpse of A. Curval's instincts as a musician.

The video is hampered by a number of factors, the first of which is my mistake in assuming that The Lee Harvey Oswald vantage point was (as with "No Guns Allowed") my assumption that the Lee Harvey Oswald vantage point was the way to shoot a live show at The Ottobar in Baltimore. The second (and primary) issue was the fact that I scuttled upstairs like one of Baltimore's uniquely huge cockroaches and wrested the camera away from my girlfriend midsong. This is why it occasionally looks like a twenty-first century, shakey cam action scene. Don't blame The Clockwork Dolls. They were merely playing their hearts out. I was the one who had no idea how to properly shoot this thing.

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