Show #171 – Wurn Snell of Colitas

Do you ever listen to a song and imagine the lyrics to be one thing as you hear it only to find out the actual lyrics are something totally different?  Yeah, we don’t either.  However, it happens.  Jimi Hendrix and “scuse me while I kiss this guy” instead of “scuse me while I kiss the sky.”  “The girl with colitis goes by” instead of “the girl with kaleidoscope yes” on The Beatles Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.  You get the idea.  The Eagles “Hotel California’s” line “the warm smell of colitas in the air” could be misinterpreted as “Wurn Snell of Colitas…” as reinterpreted at this link where someone asks what the Eagles mean by “colitas.”

What we were trying to do was pay homage to Glen Frey of the Eagles who passed away recently at the age of 69.  We like the Eagles.  And apparently, so did Buck Owens because he recorded some Eagles songs that are out on the Omnivore Recordings label – Buck Sings Eagles.

Artist	Cut	Album	Label
Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bushpilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
Raul Malo	Superstar	Sinners & Saints	Fantasy
Whitey Morgan	I Ain’t Drunk	Whitey Morgan & The 78s	Yep Roc
John Doe & The Sadies	The Night Life	Country Club	Yep Roc Records
Red Meat	Pretty Little Lights of Town	We Never Close	Ranchero Records
Buck Owens	Sam’s Place	21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection	Rhino
Johnny Paycheck	Heaven’s Almost As Big As Texas	Johnny Paycheck	Golden Lane
Merle Haggard and George Jones	Yesterday’s Wine	Living Legends	Sony Music Entertainment
77 El Deora	I Just Dodged a Bullet	The Crown and Crow’s Confession	Western Independent Recording
Derailers	Can’t Stop a Train	Reverb Deluxe	Watermelon
Dave Gleason	Some New Someone	Dave Gleason’s Wasted Days	Well Worn Records
Tim Hus	Cattlerack Cadillac	Bush Pilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
Dave Alvin	Here In California	West of The West	Yep Roc Records
Eleven Hundred Springs	Every Time I Get Close to You	Country Jam	Palo Duro
John Stewart	Wheatfield Lady	The Complete Phoenix Concerts	Bear Family Records
Meat Puppets	What To Do	II	MRI
The Eagles	Sad Cafe	Greatest Hits 2	Elektra Records
Eagles	Try and Love Again	Hotel California	Elektra Records
Poco	You Better Think Twice	Country & West Coast The Birth of Country Rock	Big Beat
Gene Clark	Tried So Hard	Country & West Coast The Birth of Country Rock	Big Beat
Linda Ronstadt	Desperado	Linda Ronstadt’s Greatest Hits	Elektra
Eagles	Take It Easy	Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975	Rhino/Elektra
Buck Owens	Peaceful Easy Feeling	Buck Sings The Eagles	Omnivore Records
Eagles	Hotel California	Hotel California	Elektra Records
Merle Haggard	Skid Row	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 – 1950S & 60S Boppers and Rockers from ‘Nashville West’	Bear Family Records GmbH
Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers	Make it Last	North of Bakersfield	Dionysus

Show #170 – Red Simpson

Red Simpson, March 6, 1934 – January 8, 2016.  Thanks for the music, Red.  Like many of the other Bakersfield Sound progenitors, Joseph “Red” Simpson came to Bakersfield from the east.  Well, Arizona, but it’s still east of Bakersfield.  While he became known for his truck songs, he wrote many more songs about the usual finding love, losing love, keeping love…  We found a lot of artists we weren’t familiar with, including Jimmy Howard from Australia, who recorded an album titled “My Favorite Red Simpson Songs,” and Ben Steneker, known as “The Godfather of Dutch Country Music.”  There were also two songs we can’t quite verify as being Red Simpson songs, but the songs share the title of a song Red wrote (noted with an *), but they were good, so I threw them in the mix.  Thanks, Red.

 

 

 

Artist	Cut	Album	Label
Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bushpilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
Red Simpson	Hello I’m a Truck	Hello I’m a Truck	Gusto Records
Merle Haggard	You Don’t Have Very Far to Go	The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles	Omnivore
Buck Owens	Sam’s Place	21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection	Rhino
Jimmy Howard	I’m a Pretty Good Man	My Favorite Red Simpson Songs	Jimmy Howard
Buck Owens	Gonna Have Love	Buck ‘Em! The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)	Omnivore
The Flying Burrito Brothers	Close Up The Honky Tonks	Sleepless Nights	Warner Brothers
The Cornell Hurd Band	Black Smoke a Blowin’ Over 18 Wheels	Texas By Night	Behemoth
Red Simpson	Roll Truck Roll	Swing West Vol. 1 Bakersfield	Razor & Tie
The Wayfarers	Bullshippers	Interstate Truckin’	K-Tel
Buck Owens	We Split the Blanket	Buck ‘Em! The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)	Omnivore
Gene Thome’ and the Bakersfield Sound	You Don’t Have Very Far to Go	It’s A Bakersfield Thing	Gene Thome’ and the Bakersfield Sound
American Sixgun	The Devil In You*	The Devil in Your Bones	Eulogy Recordings
Jimmy Howard	Motivatin’ Man	My Favorite Red Simpson Songs	Jimmy Howard
Bill Kirchen	Nitro Express	Have Love, Will Travel	Black Top
Merle Haggard & The Strangers	Bill Woods From Bakersfield	Let Me Tell You About a Song	Nashville Catalog
Glen Ayers	Sweet Love (With Red Simpson)	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 – 1950S & 60S Boppers and Rockers from ‘Nashville West’	Bear Family Records GmbH
Buck Owens	The Band Keeps Playin’ On	Buck ‘Em! The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)	Omnivore Recordings
Ben Steneker & Ine Dijkstra	A Devil Like Me (Needs An Angel Like You)	Country Stones	Sam Sam Music
Red Simpson	Truck Drivin’ Man	Best of Truck Driving Favorites	Omnivore
Lyle Lovett	Don’t Touch My Hat*	The Road To Ensenada	MCA Records
Del & Sue Smart	I’m Mad At Me	Original Country and Western Music, Vol. 2	Elite Special
Gene Thome’ and the Bakersfield Sound	Gonna Have Love (feat. Johnny Owens)	It’s A Bakersfield Thing	Gene Thome’ and the Bakersfield Sound
Lucinda Williams	You Don’t Have Very Far to Go	Tulare Dust, a songwriters tribute to merle haggard	Hightone Records
Merle Haggard & The Strangers	Somewhere on Skidrow	Pride In What I Am	Columbia
Junior Brown	Semi-Crazy	Junior Brown: Greatest Hits	Curb
Dick Curless	I Went Bad for a Pretty Girl	The Travelling Man, Vol. 5	Country Music Group
Landon Dodd	I Bought the Shoes (That Just Walked Out On Me)	Call of The Wine	Heart of Texas Records
Jimmy C. Newman	The Night Time Is Cry Time	Greatest Hits Volume 1	Plantation Records
Jimmy Howard	Truck Daddy	My Favorite Red Simpson Songs	Jimmy Howard
Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers	Make it Last	North of Bakersfield	Dionysus