{"id":3170,"date":"2017-10-13T23:30:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2024-09-07T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T14:32:49","slug":"lone-star-bob-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/lone-star-bob-wills\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Beer And Bob Wills Music (Red Steagall)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7BIYpn2aYA?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>I forget who loaned me the Red Steagall album with this as its title song, but I know it was in Vancouver, BC, and I taped all the songs I liked&#8211;which was most of them&#8211;and learned this one and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/someday\/\">Someday (You&#8217;ll Want Me to Want You)<\/a>,&#8221;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3176 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Red-Steagall-LP.jpg?resize=300%2C299&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Red-Steagall-LP.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Red-Steagall-LP.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> which remains a staple of my repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>At the time I barely knew who Bob Wills was and had never tasted Lone Star, so I&#8217;m in Steagall&#8217;s debt for introducing me to Western Swing, one of the most exciting and influential byways of American music.<\/p>\n<p>That first album also spurred one of my rare and abortive ventures into songwriting. Under its influence, I composed a pseudo-western swing number called &#8220;The Beer Stain on the Counter Looks Like Texas.&#8221; I don&#8217;t remember the first and only verse, but the chorus went:<\/p>\n<p><em>That beer stain on the counter looks like Texas,<br \/>\nThe peanuts are El Paso and the ashtray&#8217;s San Antone.<br \/>\nYeah, that beer stain on the counter looks like Texas,<br \/>\nAnd I wish that I was back there now, down in my Texas home.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which may explain why I don&#8217;t do more songwriting. Around the same time I wrote half a George Jones-style weeper called, &#8220;If You Lived Here, You&#8217;d Be Home by Now.&#8221; I tried to get Bill Morrissey to collaborate on that <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3200 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/50s-bobwills.jpg?resize=219%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/50s-bobwills.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/50s-bobwills.jpg?w=280&amp;ssl=1 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/>one, but he wasn&#8217;t biting.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard another Red Steagall album, but along with Willie and Waylon &#8212; particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/honky-tonk-heroes\/\">Waylon<\/a>, who composed a parallel song, &#8220;Bob Wills Is Still the King&#8221; &#8212; he focused my attention on Texas music, and I&#8217;m duly grateful. I&#8217;ve since spent a fair amount of time in the state, hitching and driving around and across it, and I won&#8217;t claim I know it well, but I&#8217;ve certainly developed a deep respect for its musical offspring. I&#8217;ve spent many interesting hours immersed in Wills&#8217;s canon, and that took me to Spade Cooley and Milton Brown, and then the long line of honky-tonkers following Ernest Tubb, Dave Dexter, and the marvelous <span class=\"st\">Floyd Tillman<\/span>, and later-generation songwriters like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/gimme-ride-heaven-boy\/\">Terry Allen<\/a>, Jo Carol Pierce, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/because-of-the-wind\/\">Joe Ely<\/a>, and Lyle Lovett. Not to mention all the Mexican and Chicano music that&#8217;s come out of there, and all the blues, and jazz &#8212; Flaco Jimenez, Little Joe, Steve Jordan, Lemon Jefferson, Lightnin&#8217; Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Ornette Coleman&#8230; it&#8217;s a big state, but still <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lone-Star-Swing.jpg?resize=198%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"295\" \/>disproportionately rich and generous in terms of its music.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m touching on this subject, I should plug a wonderful book that never got enough attention: <em>Lone Star Swing<\/em>, by Duncan McLean, a Scottish novelist who won a literary prize that had to be spent on travel outside the UK and, having never been further than London, decided to spend it hunting up Wills&#8217;s surviving bandsmen. It&#8217;s a very funny book, with a wonderfully off-kilter view of the American southwest, and an affectionate primer on the music. McLean&#8217;s Scottish rewrite of &#8220;That&#8217;s What I Like About the South&#8221; is worth the price of admission by itself, notably overshadowing my own half-assed efforts in that direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forget who loaned me the Red Steagall album with this as its title song, but I know it was in Vancouver, BC, and I taped all the songs I liked&#8211;which was most of them&#8211;and learned this one and &#8220;Someday (You&#8217;ll Want Me to Want You),&#8221; which remains a staple of my repertoire. 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