Neko Case - Buckets of Rain
I was pointed over to Conan’s guest DJ spot on KCRW and his musings on Bob Dylan’s Buckets of Rain:
And there have been many times where I’ve been at a loss for words and people are saying ‘come on Conan, this is important! The show starts in an hour, what should we do?’ And I’ll say “little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like” and I’ll walk out of the room and they’ll say ‘Wow, he’s a genius. No one’s as deep as Conan…’
I always liked that song and was extremely happy with the version I heard Neko Case do at Club Congress in 2005. It was Neko Case’s first show of the tour after having spent time recording in Tucson. The song was played toward the end of the set when it was getting a little stuffy thanks to a toasty May night in the desert so they opened the side door to the right of the stage. The trains and buses that could be heard from the station next to the club added something to the performance and I remember the song being a little slower than this version, from her Live from Austin release recorded on Austin City Limits in 2003.
