{"id":3498,"date":"2018-03-24T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2018-03-24T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T20:53:12","slug":"hell-have-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/hell-have-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;ll Have to Go (Ry Cooder\/Jim Reeves)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"He&#039;ll Have to Go\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJJTIrCx3Pc?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 spent a month or so hitchhiking around Scotland in the summer of 1989, partly because I was headed to Africa and wanted to familiarize myself with the work of Jim Reeves. I&#8217;d heard that Reeves was hugely popular in both places, but all I knew of his music was this song, which I&#8217;d learned off a Ry Cooder album. So I figured I should know more, and Scotland was the place to go.<\/p>\n<p>That proved to be theoretically but not practically right: Reeves was indeed popular in Scottish country-western bars, but I got distracted and ended up visiting castles, hitchhiking north to Orkney, and sleeping in stone circles rather than learning his music. I also spent a pleasant few days visiting Belle and Sheila Stewart, the great Scots traditional singers, but their tastes in country ran more to Hank Williams.<\/p>\n<p>So I fell back on the Cooder version, which fitted well with my plans to study African guitar, because he played it in a sort of Caribbean rumba rhythm.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3499 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ry-Cooder-LP.jpg?resize=237%2C237\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ry-Cooder-LP.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ry-Cooder-LP.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/>That was probably the high point of my interest in Cooder, and I have to say it was always more interest than love. I loved the idea of his albums, especially in the <em>Chicken Skin Music<\/em> period when he was mixing odd assemblages of musicians from disparate traditions and choosing unlikely material to do with them. That was my first taste of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/manu-kai\/\">Hawaiian slack-key guitar<\/a>, and also my reintroduction to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/gritenme-piedras\/\">Flaco Jimenez<\/a>, whom I&#8217;d first heard on my treasured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/anybody-going-san-antone\/\">Doug Sahm and Band<\/a> album. Flaco played on this song, and Bobby King was singing gospel back-up, and it was a really nice arrangement&#8230; but there was something kind of emotionally flat about it. I listened to those albums a bunch of times and recall them with appreciation, but my heart is with other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>As for Jim Reeves, I clearly listened to his version of this, since I just checked and find I sing his lyrics rather than Cooder&#8217;s variant, as well as that great low note (which he sings gorgeously and I attempt with infinite pleasure). But I don&#8217;t recall any of his other <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jim-Reeves-LP.jpg?resize=281%2C281\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jim-Reeves-LP.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jim-Reeves-LP.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/>songs, which just proves how out of step I am with a lot of parts of the world, because for a lot of people Reeves was the greatest singer the US ever produced, and they live in some surprising places. For instance Norway, Kenya, South Africa, and India&#8230; and I&#8217;ve got a story about that:<\/p>\n<p>In 1981 I was hitchhiking from Bombay (now Mumbai) to Madras (now Chennai), and somewhere out in the middle of nowhere I got stranded and was walking along a hot, dusty road beginning to wonder where I&#8217;d get some water. Eventually I saw a little village, but it was just a cluster of houses and a bit off the road, so I was debating whether to go over, and then a little boy came running out to me. I had my guitar slung over my shoulder, and he&#8217;d spotted it and said I had to come meet his father. So I went along with him, and his father invited me into their house and gave me a cup of tea. Then he proudly showed me his record collection: it consisted of pretty much every record Jim Reeves had made, and nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s that. Wherever I went in Africa, I played this song, and people always recognized and enjoyed it, though by the late 1980s the fave was Don Williams. They like pretty singers over there.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one more thing&#8230; I went to Africa in a large part to learn how to fingerpick these kinds of rhythms, and I&#8217;m very happy with how that worked out, and how nicely that style fits songs like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a month or so hitchhiking around Scotland in the summer of 1989, partly because I was headed to Africa and wanted to familiarize myself with the work of Jim Reeves. 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