"...but you seem to know more about it than I do, so I'd be interested if you have the time and inclination to elaborate."

The last person Doc Holliday talked to before before he traipsed off to the ol' 'Corral might have been Charles Colby's mother Maggie, still checking (it's a curse.)


"So, I'm skeptical…"
"...I think the song is junk inspired by cowboy movies, not history…."

Oy.

Edith Lindeman (the newspaper amusement critic-lyricist) "I was just sitting at home one night, playing with the idea of colors." The redhead she had in mind was her husband. She named the town Blue Rock, gave the hero a "raging black stallion" and introduced him to a "yellow-haired" lady riding a bay-colored horse." (1953)

You were expecting Frankie, Johnny & Django maybe?

The 1975 Nelson concept LP is part of the Austin, Texas - Cosmic Cowboy genre. Frankly, the premise of a prostitute's murder getting swept under the rug to expedite a dangerous bully on down the line in 1901, small town Texas isn't that farfetched.