McGrath, Howdy,

PANCHO & LEFTY is a story song--an old type ballad of tough people in dire straits. We like to vicariously identify with these people and think they might've been like what the actual pioneers were like in the USA (and in Australia too). They copped attitudes (and used guns)to make it work one way or another. THE SONG: words, chord structure, tempos -- no world influence except maybe Brit. or Irish. It transports me to other times, other places, away from McDonalds and Burger King. I JUST LIKE IT -- I guess for all the reasons I love actual folk songs. For a select few songs, I can stretch the envelope of definition.

ALL THIS SAID, I'm sorry I got so strident in the earlier post. I'm on steroids for the next couple o' weeks to limit pain etc. The things have got me bouncing off the walls. And I really like it. (That's the sad part.) Yeah, I'm truly ticked off about the stealing of the American election. Am angrier ass the days pass--and more frustrated. Never thought I'd see it here. What a thorough eye-opening and me pusing 60. I guess it IS better later than not at all.

Anyhow, didn't mean to come on as a bad guy.

Art Thieme
******(And I think I now know why I sometimes log on as myself and sometimes as a GUEST. It seems that when I go to START to find my favorite sites and then come in to Mudcat, I'm just myself. If I go to the top o' the page to access Mudcat, I'll be here as a GUEST.)