Song 745: Seven weeks after my previous personal friend song post, this week's roaming ballad Out of Luck comes from another one of my Fast Folk colleagues Ilene Weiss, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. In the summer of 1987 I did a trip to NYC, intending to move there the following year, and during that visit, I got to see Ilene do a set at Folk City which quickly turned me into an IW fan. Not long after I moved to Brooklyn in September of 1988, I joined the Manhattan Fast Folk circle and soon had a copy of Ms. Weiss's Nine Songs Basically cassette, which included this moving excursion, and which got a lot of spins on my player. It didn't take long to understand how it might feel if I made a crazy deal but I also figured out that after my loss of innocence, I would want to say la la la la la la la a lot!
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