3:01 Pick Me Up: Stringbean

Unless you have the good fortune to be unemployed or working as a ditch-digger, 3 p.m. is the cruelest time of the workday. The morning latte has worn off, and the post-lunch crash has you desperately reaching for the J. Peterman Urban Sombrero. To get you through the rest of the afternoon, you have a choice. You can raid the vending machine for an old-fashioned (not to mention life-shortening) white-sugar injection. Or you can kick-start your heart by cueing up one of the over-adrenalized videos we carefully hand-select each weekday at 3:01 p.m. If the following clip doesn’t bring you temporarily back to life, chances are you’re dead inside. Now plug in those earphones and fucking crank it.

Today's offering: The biggest complaint we get about the 3:01 Pick Me Up is the utter lack of bluegrass. Okay, so no one has actually made that complaint yet, but in case any of you were planning to, allow us to nip that in the bud.

Here's the late, great David "Stringbean" Akeman, accompanied by Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt, with "Run Little Rabbit Run". We don't endorse the hunting of innocent bunny rabbits, by the way, nor do we endorse Stringbean's fashion choices.