{"id":2235,"date":"2022-01-22T17:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/22\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-more-americana\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:49:30","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-more-americana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/22\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-more-americana\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: More Americana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Hardin, Lady Came from Baltimore<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Arlo Guthrie, Percy's Song<\/a>. Dylan's 1963 original<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Byrds, Pretty Boy Floyd<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Marty Robbins, El Paso<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Luman, Let's Think About Livin'<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Charley Ryan, Hot Rod Lincoln<\/a>, the original.  Before Johnny Bond, before Commander Cody. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dave Dudley, Six Days on the Road<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Red Sovine, Phantom 309<\/a>. Tom Waits' cover<\/a>. YouTuber comment:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don't know what it is about this particular Tom Waits song. Out of all the music I've heard, this is the only one that tears me up from the first chord. I'm a big boy, all grown-up. But I'm helpless to stop those tears. I've seen my fair share, and more, of pain and suffering and death, and so should be fairly immune to such sentimentality. Many songs are supposedly more tear-jerking, . . .  but NOT ONE moves me like this. Maybe because I used to hitchhike a lot? Maybe because I've seen, and been involved in, several car accidents? Maybe because a trucker friend was drowned when the ferry he was travelling on sunk? I don't know. I've always appreciated, and liked a lot, Tom Waits' compositions and performances, and yet this one song captures me completely, emotionally. Perhaps I'm turning into a softy. More likely, I'm just getting too old for this life. Answers on a postcard, please… (Tom Foyle)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, one can get too old for this life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Hardin, Lady Came from Baltimore Arlo Guthrie, Percy's Song. Dylan's 1963 original Byrds, Pretty Boy Floyd Marty Robbins, El Paso Bob Dylan, Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache Bob Luman, Let's Think About Livin' Charley Ryan, Hot Rod Lincoln, the original.  Before Johnny Bond, before Commander Cody.  Dave Dudley, Six Days on the Road … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: More Americana”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}