9.11.2025

My answer to the campfire question What's The Greatest Show You've Seen Live is always Slim Cessna's Auto Club. I don't know how many times I've seen them, at least five, and every show was the best one. Slim is a tall handsome front man in a workshirt that makes him look like the lead in a musical about auto mechanics. Or a background dancer in Grease I guess. His partner is Jay Munly, a guy with black teeth who in every way resembles a singing corpse. They perform brazen duets and execute jazz squares during solos. The two of them usually end up in the middle of the crowd on the floor in a cross formation. Everyone in the band plays furiously and if you told me they found their instruments at a flea market on their way to the gig I would ask no questions. Every song has a dynamic arc that makes you want to break things and start fires with your friends. Gospel country for atheists who live in cities.

So happy 9/11. Can't get this song out of my head now you can't either: