Posted on 10/06/2017 9:48:45 AM PDT by mairdie
For the Nazguls and Fell-beasts in Lord of the Rings, "Ghost Riders" by The Outlaws.
I loved your parody, LonePalm. Brilliant. Tried to go to your midi link and it was a disaster. We don’t use Javascript, so husband sent me off to the lone computer. And that took us to a real estate site with no way out. But reading down the page I realize you didn’t sing it, so the important part was your brilliant lyrics, so it’s ok that I couldn’t hear the midi. You pulled the rhythm perfectly within the interior of each line. Your sense of internal rhythm within your body must be marvelous to be so ON! And your alterations were just enough to keep remembering the original while laughing at your changes. Wonderfully done!
Syrupy sweet with no feel of storytelling. He’s not listening to what he’s saying. And so slow. But very glad I heard it. I would have guessed this was one of those I knew in childhood, but it’s not. Thanks for the link.
I really like this one! :-0
Outlaws definitely.
Blues Brothers ... Were they a real group?
The Blues Brothers appeared at the Paramount theater in Houston Texas in 1979, while I lived there. They did tour briefly during that summer of that year while on hiatus from SNL. A Briefcase Full of Blues album was recorded that year as well.
Quite a song. A warning to cowboys about a cowboy’s hell.
I can’t think of one that even comes close to this. It’s just one of those things so special that it jumps out of the ordinary. One wonders if it ever really was sung around a campfire to cows.
I LOVE that you’re sending the links to all the covers. This is simply brilliant and it’s a ball going thru them. Infinite thanks!
BFL
Wow!! Thanks for getting the YT links!
Not exactly a lullaby to calm a herd down. Also written and recorded by Stan Smith in 1948, way after the era of cattle drives had ended.
——Green Grass and high Tides....
Greatest southern rock song ever done...
In the 90’s I would see cowboys moving cattle around small towns as the train passed thru. But that’s much different from having to spend the night with them. I have a photograph from my grandmother’s Colorado ranch that shows an old type car where the side of the car folded down into a shelf/table and the side was filled with cans and utensils, much like a chuckwagon. There’s one photograph of father’s stepfather watering his horse at the watering hole, so horses were still used there around 1910.
Henry Coe owned a HUGE ranch in the hills east of Morgan Hill, California. They conducted roundups and drove the cattle to market until the late 20s or early 30s when trucks were used to drive the cattle to the railroad loading yard. His daughter grew up on the ranch and loved those cattle drives and riding the range. It’s a magnificent public park now.
Nope, no Dead versions.
“Jam” is pretty good. Imagine it done in a studio with excellent recording equipment and a good sound engineer!
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