Left work today feeling drained. Too many early, early mornings, too many long, hot days, too little appreciation. Whatever.
Decided I didn't want to listen to Sibelius' 5th, or whatever it was (KING-FM is the only radio station I listen to routinely in the car, almost all music, no mindless chatter) so I fumbled through my short in-car CD collection, and selected the "Country and Cowboys" mix CD I put together.
Within three or four songs I felt better. I mean, who can listen to Marty Robbins singing "Kawliga" without singing along, not mention singing along without feeling better, well, they need to head to the range with a few boxes of therapy...
Here's Hank (senior) singing his song:
(The video has nothing to do with the song, but what the heck?)
Then there's Hoyt Axton's Bony Fingers. (Link is to audio track on Rhapsody.) My father says this is/was the unofficial song of the police department before he retired. I've suggested it ought to be where I work, too, but few seem to have heard of it. Darn kids...
(This blog was almost called Flash of Fire after another Hoyt Axton piece, but Mrs. Drang pointed out that the refrain, including the lyrics "I'm goin' to Heaven in a Flash of Fire with or without you" sounded like a threat of self-immolation.)
It started out as a disk of random, favorite C&W songs, but after it was burned there was a long section, bracketed by Toby Kieth's "Should Been A Cowboy" and Waylon Jenning's "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys", and including several Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads, so now I call it "Country and Cowboys."
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