Review: 'Pancho and Lefty' and more...

Subject: Review: 'Pancho and Lefty' and more...
From: GUEST,Pat Blackman
Date: 05 Apr 12 - 11:00 PM

Check out Murder Ballad Monday's series this week on Townes van Zandt's "Pancho and Lefty" (Check out our Facebook Page! )

Pancho and Lefty - This week Ken guides us carefully through that wide canyon between storyteller and listener as he explores the classic "Pancho and Lefty". We journey on the backs of strong recordings from Townes Van Zandt and Emmylou Harris, and the walls show colors and shadows that trick the mind as we ride. Even murder, it would seem, is in the eye of the beholder. "No one heard his dying words. That's the way it goes…"

Outlaws, Bandits, and Troubadours - Ken keeps us moving through a land of outlaws, bandits, and troubadours in pursuit of the elusive "Pancho and Lefty." Wait, someone's plastering posters on the barroom wall. Wanted! Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Steve Earle, Hammerlock, The Poozies, Dick Gaughan, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings.

I'm Looking for my Fortune and it ain't in Illinois - Ken ties up noose, er, *loose* ends in his final post this week, but still manages to leave us hanging. We see another performance of "Pancho and Lefty" by its composer, and then meet Pancho's stepchildren as we take in excellent performances of related songs from Michael Smith and Blue Highway. "They say that farther west it's open wide..."

Subject: RE: Review: 'Pancho and Lefty' and more...
From: Beer
Date: 05 Apr 12 - 11:17 PM

Love what you did Pat.
Thanks.
Adrien

Subject: RE: Review: 'Pancho and Lefty' and more...
From: Amos
Date: 06 Apr 12 - 12:07 AM

ME too--but you really oughta hear and read the internal Mudcat post-deconstructionaist literary critique on the subject. ALso, for those who enjoy musical endeabvours there is a summary ballad encapsulating the fundamental memes evoked by the antiquarian overttones of the original cultural matrix.

Subject: RE: Review: 'Pancho and Lefty' and more...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Apr 12 - 08:24 AM

Nice to have this song rise to the top again. We certainly had some great fun reworking it years ago, if you follow the links Amos posted above.

That's the way it goes...

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Review: 'Pancho and Lefty' and more...
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 12 - 10:00 PM

Thanks all... The thread and particularly the ballad are most, um, enlightening... and certainly entertaining!

Subject: RE: Review: 'Pancho and Lefty' and more...
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 01:38 AM

Glad you read the thread Pat.......I''m Pat too but also Spaw so........just forget it....

If you read...the thread
Hope you got...some laughs
Hope you're still
Okay
With your balls
Intact.

Come back anytime
We'll fuck with...your mind
Drink a nice...Merlot
And we'll blow...ow...a joint.


Sorry......I'm still channeling Townes but have moved to "If I needed You."...................


Spaw