Dear James,
Have you seen the Showtime drama Weeds? One of the perks of working in TV is that I get to watch lots of TV programs and call it work. Weeds tells the old traditional story of a sexy widow trying to provide for her family by selling marijuana to her friends and neighbours. That old chestnut. The theme tune is an old Pete Seeger song recorded by Malvina Reynolds, who is interesting for two reasons: 1) I never knew there were people outside Argentina who called their daughters Malvina; and 2) she was quite an old lady by the time she started recording in the 1960s.
From the second season of Weeds the song was performed by a different artiste every week, presumably because people like Josephine Funseeker found Malvina's voice started to grate if you watched all ten episoded back-toback. As a result, it's probably one of the most covered songs in the world ever. Probably. Here's Elvis Costello doing his version for episode one of season two.
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