Saturday Night at the Oldies: Americana

Buffy Sainte-Marie, I'm Gonna be a Country Girl Again

Buffy seems to have got herself into a heap o' trouble making like Elizabeth 'Fauxcahontas' Warren. No time to weigh in on this tonight, but the combox is open. She had me fooled, high cheek bones and all, but I've loved her music since the far-off and fabulous '60s, and always will.

Hoyt Axton, Greenback Dollar

Nanci Griffith, Boots of Spanish Leather

16 Horsepower, Wayfaring Stranger

Stanley Bros., Rank Strangers

Bob Dylan, I am a Lonesome Hobo. Have you heard this version?

Bob Dylan, As I Went Out One Morning

Highwaymen, The City of New Orleans

Kenny Rogers, The Gambler

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cod'ine

Bob Dylan, Only a Hobo, 1963

Highwaymen, Ghost Riders in the Sky

As the riders loped on by him
He heard one call his name
'If you wanna save your soul
From hell a-riding on our range
Then, cowboy change your ways today
Or with us you will ride
Trying to catch the devil's herd
Across these endless skies.'

8 thoughts on “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Americana”

  1. I look forward to hearing more about the Pretendian. Was your remark here in any way related to a recent email of mine?

  2. >>Was your remark here in any way related to a recent email of mine?<< It was indeed, Oz, and I thank you for that e-mail. I was hoping you would jump in here and tell the story with links, etc. I mentioned your man Ockham a little below in the post pile; comments?

  3. Thanks Bill. I am a bit under the weather with a really bad cold. Perhaps early next week.
    Happy advent! Here is the Bach-Busoni arrangement of “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659”. The German translates the Latin “Veni redemptor gentium” (Come, Redeemer of the nations), a Latin Advent hymn by Ambrose of Milan.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0O3XVtfEMI

  4. Thanks, Oz, for the Bach. “Without music, life would be a mistake.” (Nietzsche)
    That is our hope, Joe, that at death the curtain does not fall, but rises.

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