Posted on 10/26/2020 12:55:08 PM PDT by pluvmantelo
London Homesick Blues was Gary P Nunn but it was on a JJW album.
There used to be a “border bar” called The Texas Embassy in the White Star building (where the titanic tickets were sold) on embassy row near Trafalgar Square in London.
My wife and I were there enjoying some pretty good Tex-Mex washed down with Lone Star long necks when LHSB began to play over the sound system.
I’m pretty sure an alternate universe formed at that moment.
Oddly enough, I learned of JJW’s passing from a tweet by Mr. Hubbard that I stumbled upon while looking for the lyrics to Outlaw Blood (which I heard today for the first time). Good song.
The first time I ever heard LHSB was in some pub in London while I was studying there in college in 1979. A guy on guitar performed there every Friday night—I also remember him regularly doing Wish You Were Here and Fog on the Tyne. Hearing LHSB sure made me homesick for Texas, even though I had never been there!
Yes and he references Gary P Nun when he starts the song. I always liked it because of this:
I want to go home with the Armadillo
Great country music from Amarillo and Abilene
The friendliest people and the purtiest women you’ve ever seen.
I am from Amarillo and a woman too.
One of my favorites: “I like my women just a little on the trashy side”
I think “Night riders lament” was pretty influential in my life. I live in Alaska after many years all over in the USAF. Favorite line is “boy you must be all crazy out there”. Fits me just fine.
During the time that I lived in that awful place called Minnesota, I made two visits per year to my parents in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive back north, I would play the Viva Terlingua CD when approaching the IA-MN border. London Homesick Blues when I crossed the state line ( Yeah, I know, Gary P Nunn).
Really. I wish we’d have visited it when we were there.
It was way up in Rangely Lakes and it was like 1981
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