"Martha Bridegam" <mabjo.RemoveThis@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> ROBBIE wrote:
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> > ...betcha didn't know he came from Bakersfield. Giving ol' Johnny Cash a
> > run...
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> No, I'd say you were giving Phil Ochs a run for something or other.
I used to love that one of his where he's going 'I ain't fighting anymore'.
YES I still like it- just lost the recording. Thanks anyway (we'll take this
as a xmas 1914 football match I guess because there are other things coming
up that will make a modern san franogasgue go barmy with rage.
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> Why Bakersfield? Bakersfield is hot and flat. That's a song for rainy
> country.
Ain't never been there! Cos I read somewhere that there is two types of
country music: Nashville and Bakersfield. And I just picked the one that
seemed groovier. You understand that it is English boys misunderstanding of
America that has given us so much good music; I shall not be a bore and
illustrate this statement. You know what I mean.
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> But, cripe, it does convey a mood all right.
I spoze I could have called it 'A Country Hamlet' now I come to think about
it but that woulda been pretentious.
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> Hang on tight, Robbie.
I've always got a couple of white knuckles...
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> /M
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