Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Song Of The Day...

Just been bidding on e-bay for a record that ended at 4:30am!!! But it was worth it cos I got this little beauty from Beaverton, Oregon.

And so, this is The Bonanza & Son ’Song Of The Day’…

Willis Alan Ramsey’s haunting and plaintive ‘Ballad Of Spider John’…
Taken from his 1972, self-titled gem of an album originally released on the Shelter label in Tulsa. Every track is a winner including 'Muskrat Candlelight' which would be renamed ‘Muskrat Love' and made successful for the likes of the band America in 1973 and an even bigger hit for Captain & Tennille reaching No.4 in 1976…

Ramsey’s LP contained an incredible line-up of musicians including Orville Red Rhodes, Jim Keltner and Leon Russell…

He is also somewhat of a musicians' songwriter having had his songs covered by such luminaries as Waylon Jennings ('Satin Sheets’), Jerry Jeff Walker ('Northeast Texas Women’) and Jimmy Buffett (' The Ballad Of Spider John').

...Right, time for bed! BOING!


0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home