Song: Amanda
By Don Williams um. byebyemissAmericanpie? --no that's don mclean.
Music and lyrics by Bob McDill
Cover hierarchy
Amanda by Don Williams (1973) On audio album Volume One (1973)
Amanda by Dan Lund (1994)
Amanda by Roland (1998)
--waylon jennings? now I'm over 30, still wearing jeans.
track 13 of 22 on get Ultimate Waylon Jennings [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] -- Waylon Jennings huh: List Price: $18.98 Price: $9.97 -March 2004 -Amid his flurry of reissues, Ultimate Waylon Jennings presents 22 top-10 country hits including 14 number ones. - a maxim now that this is the best single disc overview of Waylon's career.

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and: get End Time by Freakwater (5th album)
- Freakwater's fifth record is an outright masterpiece. Yet another antidote to Nashville commercialism, End Time brings us an entire suite of provocative originals from the indie band, who twang their unmistakable, plaintive harmonies against a motley assortment of Dobro, mandolin, fiddle, keyboards, drums, and strings. The pinpoint imagism of their brooding lyrics is razor sharp and full of startling, Dylanesque turns of phrase, giving depth to Freakwater's ragged and haunted beauty -AZ best of 1999
for:
Dog Gone Wrong Give her an inch, she's looking for a mile Give her a cake and she's looking for a file Give her a kiss, she's gonna suck the gold right out of your mou-outh Give her a car and she'll be headed Sou-outh

in fact, totally become a Freakwater fan.

Springtime ~ Freakwater
Thinking of You ~ Freakwater
Feels Like the Third Time ~ Freakwater hee.
Dancing Under Water ~ Freakwater 1st. which I have.
Old Paint ~ Freakwater
Cut Yourself a Switch ~ Catherine Ann Irwin

-this is how modern country should sound.
-may just be the most compelling country band of the '90s, and there's no need to qualify that with an alt either
-enthralled by country's dark, dismal, and austere acoustic tradition, forging own dirt road (have I already copied exactly this? here. from review of debut)
- Bean & Irwin are two of the sharpest writers going. On a zany cut like Queen Bee, it's funny rhymes & wordplay: '... way up in a hollow tree, perfect idolatry: little bees on their knees.'