Dave Alvin - From A Kitchen Table

This is the kind of song that perfectly explains why I love country music. Dave Alvin's 1998 composition "From A Kitchen Table" is like a short story set to song, an incredibly moving tale where the protagonist is a sorry and pathetic man who writes an imaginary letter to his one-time sweetheart from the kitchen table in his mom's old house where he still lives. This is classic, sad and very good country music, in every way an absolutely brilliant song, lifted from the album Blackjack David.

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