Wow, what a week, as we are finally thawing out here in Texas. It is not normal to have 70 hours in a row below freezing in this state, with snow, ice, and what have you. As the world has been trying to get to Dallas for the Super Bowl®, the cancelled flights and hazardous roads have certainly not helped. But here is it Super Bowl Sunday; I love it, well in a bittersweet way, as it heralds the end of the football season. Sniff.

But let's celebrate the day, the food, the fun, the football (and the commercials!). And here's hoping it's a competitive game. These are two legacy teams named for their respective towns' industries, two cities that have built a shrine to their football teams. I lived in Pittsburgh during the Terry Bradshaw and Steel Curtain days of Super Bowl supremacy. Not that I am taking sides. (Well maybe just a little!)

I have been looking for a suitable cutesy tie-in for a video, I was thinking Dallas by Jimmie Dale Gilmore or the Flatlanders or Joe Ely, and then I went looking for the original version of The Gambler by Don Schlitz who penned it. After hours spent surfing and listening, I gave up. Well, actually, what really happened is I got a press release about Rockpile, referencing both Labour of Lust by Nick Lowe, and Dave Edmunds Repeat When Necessary. And if you have a bit of time, there is a very cool 12 part 'telling of the tale' for you to explore called Born Fighters 1979. Down the rabbit hole you go.

On March 15, Labour of Lust will be reissued on vinyl, CD and digitally. Hard to believe that the album has been out of print for over 20 years!

So today's video is a classic, and it has nothing to do with Super Bowl Sunday. And it's not from the Labour of Lust album, either. That said, it WOULD be fun to have this tune added to the in-stadium playlists around the country, if for no other reason than that everyone could stand up in unison and boogie (a sure photo op!). "I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock & Roll," which you can find on Quiet Please: The New Best of Nick Lowe, that came out about two years ago.

- Jessie Scott