Posted on 12/04/2023 3:25:28 PM PST by Squawk 8888
Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian) Paul Revere & The Raiders
Speaking of anti-drug, Stairway to Heaven could’ve been life-altering for all of my “Stoner” classmates in high school if they only paid attention to the lyrics to which they always sang along.
I gave this song an honest listen but I didn’t like it.
Some of this bands other songs are good though like kicks
I was impressed that even the drummer could “fake it real” as a convincing musician even though the session was probably lip-synched.
I happen to like both. As always, your mileage my vary.
Cheers FRiend,
Squawk
just my opinion...
Both the Canadian charts (especially the CHUM 30, the most influential of the era) and the label on my Canadian-made 7” single concur with you IIRC.
Song written by John Loudermilk.He also wrote “tobacco road” (Nashville teens), “Ebony eyes”( Everly Brothers, “then you can tell me goodbye”(Casinos). Probably living large off the residuals.
First released in 1959 by Marvin Rainwater, first hit version by Don Fardon, an English Rocker, then the Raiders. Has been done by others since. Another good and touching Cherokee song is “Cherokee Bend” written and recorded by the late Gordon Lightfoot.
Damn, I never even HEARD Cherokee Bend and my own uncle DISCOVERED Gord when he was playing a bar on Spadina Avenue here. Thanks to Uncle Al, Gord got his first record deal!
Hot bod. Nice looks. Lip synch vocal. Almost Dylan Mulvaney face.
Fitting tribute by a deees-co band. IMHO.
My only excuse is the fact that Gord was such a prolific songwriter that even HE didn’t have a clue how many he wrote; during the 1970s he’d be high on meth, isolated in his cabin on Indian land, and binge-writing until he crashed. After recovering he’d picked out the dozen or so that met his own standards then burn the other hundred or so. The ones he kept were then his next album. He made a comeback tour after a health scare; his last show was less than a year before he died IIRC.
Al Grossman? He also managed Peter,Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, The Band, Odetta, Ian and Sylvia.
He got around fer sure.
Agreed!
Nope. His public name is Alexander Mair; he’s my late mom’s kid half-brother. Only within the family is he known differently but he’s still Al in any context. Any further disclosures and I risk 14 years in jail for violating the Official Secrets Act ;-)
Are you referring to Al of Grossman’s Tavern on Spadina Avenue at the north end of our first Chinatown? As of the last time I checked (about five years ago) they were still THE go-to for new Blues!
Spadina Ave...Toronto, eh!
Ya’kinda wonder how long Lightfoot woulda’ lasted without the alcoholism, drugs, cigarettes....he did say he would use alcohol to help him write. I think he stopped drinking after about 1985 or so. I believe he is at least co-equal with Bob Dylan as a writer. His voice was more “mellifluous” than Dylan in his heydey. Hear him do “Softly” on Johnny Cash show. Some of his less popular songs highlighting his ability to view different topics using different musical genres include ,Don Quixote, The Soul is the Rock, Redwood Hill, Ballad of Yarmouth Castle, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Crossroads, Sit down, young Stranger, Face of a Thousand people...too many to list.
Freegards.
I have never been to Toronto...I was just guessing, and typed in Spadina Ave on my browser. Nice to know how history works out....
That’s a real live performance and not lip-synched. I always interpreted “Kicks” to be a song about a playful cat.
I believe The Raiders played Vox Super Beatle amps, as did Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers early on. Petty still had some of the amps onstage for much of his career, although the band actually played through other amps. Amp expert Richie Fliegler said the Super Beatles sounded like a blizzard of nails. The amps looked cool and The Raiders were featured in some print ads for the amps.
Don Quixote when it was released c. 1973(?) sealed the deal for me, and it was more than the opening title track that kept my attention. My teenage sister brought home a copy and I was the one who wore it out by the time she finished high school.
This was a couple of years after Summer Side of Life was released; that was the first of Gord’s albums that I sat down and listened to with the sole interruption of flipping the vinyl LP over halfway through. It was also the first of my Big Sister’s LPs that I wore out.
Good times that I remember vividly while I still have every excuse to fixate on aspects my childhood that were objectively horrific and traumatizing. Go figure.
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