{"id":3915,"date":"2018-08-04T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2022-08-13T15:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:23:55","slug":"row-of-dominoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/row-of-dominoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Row of Dominoes (Butch Hancock)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Row of Dominoes (Joe Ely\/Butch Hancock)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V-03UQEBtCk?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>Yet another I learned from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/because-of-the-wind\/\">Joe Ely<\/a>. Among the many debts I owe to Joe is that he introduced me to Butch Hancock&#8217;s songwriting. Joe and Butch had teamed up way before I heard of either of them, in a band called the Flatlanders, which also included Jimmie Dale Gilmore &#8212; another songwriter I first learned about through Joe&#8217;s records.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3916\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/butch-hancock2.jpg?resize=250%2C258&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"258\" \/> They were and are a terrific trio, but Joe was the first one to hit nationally and internationally, so most of us learned about the others from him.<\/p>\n<p>If it hadn&#8217;t been for Joe, I would probably still have learned about Butch, because Dave Van Ronk heard him someplace in Texas &#8212; maybe the Kerrville festival &#8212; and was blown away. I recall Dave telling me he had tried to persuade Butch to come to New York and insisted he&#8217;d be the biggest thing to hit the local folk scene since Dylan&#8230; which is the kind of advice Butch probably was wise to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>As best I can tell, Butch never cared to tour much anyway. The only times I&#8217;ve seen him are once with the Flatlanders at Newport and once when Dick Pleasants, a wonderful Boston folk radio programmer, got the chance to program a city-sponsored Fourth of July concert at the Hatch Shell on the Charles River. Dick brought in Odetta, Rosalie Sorrels, Riders in the Sky, and several other people &#8212; and brought Butch&#8217;s entire band up from Texas. As I recall, it was a ten-piece group, with back-up singers, a horn section, and a musical saw.<\/p>\n<p>All of which said, I got this, along with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/me-and-billy\/\">Me and Billy the Kid<\/a>,&#8221; from Joe&#8217;s <em>Live at Liberty Lunch<\/em> album and recorded it on my cassette, <em>Street Corner Cowboy <\/em>in the early 1990s, and again almost ten years later on my CD, <em>Street Corner Cowboys.<\/em> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3904 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ew-cassette-cover.jpg?resize=210%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/>(Note the subtly different titles.) The first version had Mark Earley playing lonesome prairie harmonica, and the second had Matt Leavenworth playing lonesome prairie fiddle, and I miss both of them&#8230; but I kept playing it on my own, because it&#8217;s such a great lyric.<\/p>\n<p>To my way of thinking, Butch&#8217;s one major handicap was that he often overwrote &#8212; he&#8217;d come up with a great chorus and some great verses, but then he&#8217;d write more verses and pretty soon he&#8217;d have a six minute song that would have been a lot stronger if it were shorter. That&#8217;s not a rare disease for writers &#8212; I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve succumbed to it myself on occasion &#8212; but anyway, Joe seemed to act as a kind of brake: the songs of Butch&#8217;s he did were mostly shorter and a few of them were damn near perfect. This one, for example, is just four short verses and two choruses (actually, I just went back and listened, and Joe and Butch sing a different line on the first chorus &#8212; so apparently I did a bit more editing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this grabbed me from line one, and just kept getting better: &#8220;They say a fool never knows what he misses\/ And a wise man never misses what he knows.&#8221; That&#8217;s damn good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another I learned from Joe Ely. Among the many debts I owe to Joe is that he introduced me to Butch Hancock&#8217;s songwriting. 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