{"id":2938,"date":"2025-02-22T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2025-02-22T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T15:48:07","slug":"rosie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rosie\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie (Bill Morrissey, with a story about Monte)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rosie (Bill Morrissey)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DARJohbt7l0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is another from Bill Morrissey, written after he spent a summer working on a purse seiner out of Ketchikan, Alaska. That used to be a pretty common thing; I knew a bunch of musicians who went to Alaska to work the fishing and save some money to tide them over while they tried to get their performing careers going. When I met him back in the <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5656\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2030\/06\/Bill-Morrissey-LP-e1738854369962.jpg?resize=244%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"245\" \/>early 1980s, this was one of Bill&#8217;s strongest songs, introduced with stories of freezing, scuffling, and drinking during his time ashore at a place called the Shamrock Topless Bar and Laundromat.<\/p>\n<p>I sang this a lot when I was touring &#8212; not as often as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/oil-money\/\">Oil Money<\/a>&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/my-baby-and-me\/\">My Baby and Me<\/a>,&#8221; but more often than any\u00a0 of Bill&#8217;s other songs. I even recorded a version for my LP, with Bill producing, but it seemed kind of silly for me to do it when it was also on Bill&#8217;s record, and one of his friends said I made it sound like a Leonard Cohen song, which I didn&#8217;t take that as a compliment. So it stayed in the can and I did &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/soldiers-pay-morrissey\/\">Soldier&#8217;s Pay<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; which might also have sounded like Cohen, but Bill wasn&#8217;t recording it and someone had to.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5689\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5689\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Monte-photo-by-Maryse-Zeidler.jpg?resize=292%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Monte-photo-by-Maryse-Zeidler.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Monte-photo-by-Maryse-Zeidler.jpg?resize=300%2C245&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Maryse Zeidler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This was a favorite of my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/pancho-lefty\/\">Monte<\/a>&#8216;s, and it reminds me of him because he was from northern British Columbia, which is the closest I ever got to Alaska. That&#8217;s another story: when Bill was booked to play the Vancouver Folk Festival, I gave him Monte&#8217;s number. I thought they&#8217;d get along, but Bill came home kind of disgruntled, asking, &#8220;Who is that guy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turned out that Monte had been giving him a tour of the local hang-outs and it started to rain; Monte didn&#8217;t want Bill to get wet, so insisted he wait in a bar; then Monte pulled up a few minutes later in a long black Chevrolet. He gestured for Bill to get in, but Bill knew Monte didn&#8217;t live nearby, so asked: &#8220;Where&#8217;d you get the car?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monte gestured again and said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about it. 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Monte played with Dave at the show, and he and Bill were polite to each other, but they couldn&#8217;t get over the car incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another from Bill Morrissey, written after he spent a summer working on a purse seiner out of Ketchikan, Alaska. 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