{"id":3793,"date":"2019-05-11T17:33:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-sounds-of-the-southwest\/"},"modified":"2019-05-11T17:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T17:33:43","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-sounds-of-the-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-sounds-of-the-southwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Sounds of the Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0338\"<\/a>Calexico, Alone Again Or<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A great cover of Love's version<\/a> <\/a>from '67.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ry Cooder, Paris, Texas<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ry Cooder, He'll Have to Go<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A curiously satisfying Tex-Mex re-do of the old Jim Reeves crossover hit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ry Cooder, Yellow Roses<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Spade Cooley, Detour<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

'Spade Cooley' has got to be one of the most politically incorrect names of all time.  I remember seeing his Western swing show on KTLA, Channel 5, in the late '50s, early '60s' at my Uncle Ray's place.  Cooley<\/a> was a real piece of work.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Above, a view of the Arizona open road from the cockpit of my 2013 Jeep Wrangler. <\/span><\/p>\n

Old Crow Medicine Show, Sweet Amarillo<\/a>.  Dylan wrote it<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marty Robbins messes with the wicked Felina in El Paso<\/a> and comes to an untimely end.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dean Martin is down and out in Houston<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

A lonely soldier cleans his gun and dreams of Galveston<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

A slacker standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona<\/a> spies a girl in a flatbed Ford.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Rivers heads East via Phoenix<\/a> and Albuquerque.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0336\"<\/a>From Tucson to Tucumcari<\/a>, Tehachapi to Tonopah, this sojourner of the American night has driven every kind of rig that's ever been made.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed Farrell writes, "The Little Feat version of I'm Willin is a good one.  But my favorite version will probably remain the one done by Seatrain<\/a> circa<\/em> 1970–which was the standard road song for Sierra climbing trips in late high school\/college.  Seatrain<\/a> never really took off as a band but their musicianship was quite good though their style was difficult to pigeonhole."<\/span><\/p>\n

That is a good version, indeed better than Little Feat's.  There were a lot of great bands back in the day that never really made it.  Another is Fever Tree<\/a>.  I remember hearing them circa<\/em> '68 live at a club called The Kaleidoscope  in Hollywood or West L. A.  Give a careful listen to The Sun Also Rises<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed also recommends Seatrain's version of the Carole King composition, Creepin' Midnight<\/a>.  Produced by George Martin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, please take a look at Ed's spectacular photography<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calexico, Alone Again Or A great cover of Love's version from '67. Ry Cooder, Paris, Texas Ry Cooder, He'll Have to Go A curiously satisfying Tex-Mex re-do of the old Jim Reeves crossover hit Ry Cooder, Yellow Roses Spade Cooley, Detour 'Spade Cooley' has got to be one of the most politically incorrect names of all time.  I remember seeing his … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Sounds of the Southwest”<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","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=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}