Last Train to Clarksville Clarkdale. We were throwing out names, and when we got to Clarkdale, we thought Clarksville sounded even better. We didn't know it at the time, [but] there is an Army base near the town of Clarksville, Tennessee — which would have fit the bill fine for the storyline. We couldn't be too direct with The Monkees. We couldn't really make a protest song out of it — we kind of snuck it in". Although "Clarksville", a common U.S. place name, is in the song title, the video accompanying the song on the Monkees' TV show showed a sign pointing to
Single Mothers (band) Single Mothers (band) Single Mothers is a Canadian punk rock band based in London, Ontario that formed in 2008. The band released its debut studio album "Negative Qualities" in 2014. Canadian Andrew Thomson formed Single Mothers in 2008 after a break up. The band released two EPs in its early years, "Wild Party" in 2010 and "Single Mothers" in 2011, the latter of which was released though Secret Voice — an imprint of Jacob Bannon's Deathwish Inc. founded by Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré. Its self-titled EP was promoted with music videos for "Christian Girls" and "Baby". Single Mothers headlined