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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.'

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8 responses to “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Americana”

  1. Joe Odegaard Avatar
    Joe Odegaard

    OK Brother Bill, if you are going to post Ghost Riders in the Sky, you have to include the Baja Marimba Band’s version, complete with yells. Enjoy !
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUfHC30qTqI

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  2. oz Avatar
    oz

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

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  3. BV Avatar
    BV

    That’s nice, Joe. Los locos Vaqueros!
    But I prefer something a bit more edgy. Check out the Spiderbait version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AvSKuNpfr0
    This one goes out to Mike Valle.

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  4. BV Avatar
    BV

    >>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?

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  5. oz Avatar
    oz

    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

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  6. BV Avatar
    BV

    Joe,
    Word came from Jean H that Sally S died on December 1st. I was going to call her. Too late, she’s gone. In memoriam: https://youtu.be/v7om-hZgVbs
    Sally, quintessentially of the ’60s, its virtues and it excesses, would have liked this tribute.

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  7. Joe Odegaard Avatar
    Joe Odegaard

    Dear Sally knows the truth of it all now. God bless her and may she rest in peace, great peace.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-R7zYeb9w

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  8. BV Avatar
    BV

    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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