Slow Night, So Long

"Slow Night, So Long"
Song by Kings of Leon from the album 'Aha Shake Heartbreak'
Released	December 1, 2005 (UK) April 17, 2006 (U.S.)
Recorded	2004
Genre	Garage rock, Southern rock
Length	3:54 (with the feature at the end) 2:40 (without it)
Label	Columbia Records
Writer	Kings of Leon
Producer	Ethan Johns, Angelo Petraglia
'Aha Shake Heartbreak' track listing
"Slow Night, So Long" (1) "King of the Rodeo" (2)

"Slow Night, So Long" is a song by American rock band Kings of Leon. It's the opening track on their 2005 album Aha Shake Heartbreak. Lyrically, the song can be loosely interpreted as the story of a boy at a party who has his eye on a girl ("so far so good, she's absolutely wasted"), and the events that take place as the night unfolds. The studio version of the song itself ends at approximately 2:40 and is followed by a piano driven, Latin/calypso-infused coda, which features Caleb Followill crooning:

"Rise and shine, all you gold-digger mothers / are you too good to tango with the poor, poor boys?".

The [above] lines are performed during the intro of the music video to "King of the Rodeo". In the video, however, it's performed by a group in a country-western style rather than the band's original Latin/calypso-infused coda style, possibly to reflect the band's southern roots. The Kings of Leon have rarely performed this final part of the song live. (live video from houston in 2006 of the end of Slow Night, So Long. LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAsA1fXYoBY)

In recent concerts, the band has used the song to close their sets. When the band toured with Pearl Jam, as well as during Lollapalooza 2007, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder would come out playing tambourines and sing the song alongside Caleb Followill, trading lines with the Kings of Leon lead singer.