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Some things never change. The alarm clock rings each morning, and it’s time to get ready to go punch in again. For a lot of Michigan folks, this means working on the automotive assembly line. Detroit isn’t called the Motor City for nothing. But now that the rest of the world has caught up, we’re losing jobs left and right. Ford just announced they were putting 8,000 more people out of work. It should only add to Michigan’s unemployment rate, the highest in the country. The times are a changin’. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing. According to the Detroit band Stix and Stoned, and Plymouth, Michigan’s David Walz, working on the line gives them a bad case of the blues.
The band Stix and Stoned was formed by a group of buddies who worked together at the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. They had those rou-ou-ouge plant blues, and they had ‘em bad.
listen to Rouge Plant Blues:
I recently discovered this record by Plymouth’s David Walz, called Country Old Country New.
And to my delight, the lead off track on the B side was Assembly Line Blues. Stix and Stoned were not alone as a local bar band who was factory rat by day, rock and roll dreamer by night. I’m sure that playing music was much, much better, and this only contributed to the blues they all felt while bolting in those door panels or assembling those steering wheels.
David Walz doesn’t look like he has the blues, but that’s because he was posing for the cover of his new album instead of sweatin’ on that line. Give his take a listen and see who makes the most convincing argument.
listen to Assembly Line Blues:
Who needs the blues? As many of the immortals have said, They ain’t nothin’ but a low down achin’ chill, and if you ain’t never had ‘em, I hope you never will. And if you listen to Stix and Stoned or David Walz, that’s all those auto jobs are good for anyway.
