Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
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Into the Purple Valley or up the Purple Aki?
Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
It's a gentle yet damning satire on religious denominationalism is this.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
This was written in 1927.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
On a Monday.
One of my favourites.
One of my favourites.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
Groovy slide guitar solo.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
I think this about an emancipated black man returning to the South after years of 'exile' in the North.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
Oh, it was written by Johnny Cash.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
Nightjar wrote:Oh, it was written by Johnny Cash.
Apparently it was one of the first two tracks he ever recorded.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
Nightjar wrote:Nightjar wrote:Oh, it was written by Johnny Cash.
Apparently it was one of the first two tracks he ever recorded.
It would seem that it's about a G.I. returning home to the South after WWII.
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Re: Ry Cooder - Into the Purple valley (1972)
Track 10 - Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All.
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This is another rousing dustbowl anthem.
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