“"Hard Luck Boy" is a charming, picaresque little tune about being abandoned by your mother in a department store. Tom Brosseau opens with a faux-casual spoken introduction, tuning his guitar and setting the scene: "My mother took me on what she called 'a little shopping trip,' four or five states away, to a city she'd never been to before," he tells us. From this ominous little setup, he spins a p”
