{"id":5977,"date":"2025-10-11T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:26:55","slug":"wishing-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wishing-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishing For You (Joe Ely)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wishing for You (Joe Ely - Butch Hancock)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vqps_1SB3S0?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 neither the first nor the last Butch Hancock song I learned off Joe Ely&#8217;s terrific string of records in the 1970s. (Actually, I just checked, and this is off his 1981 album,\u00a0<em>Down on the Drag<\/em>, which was not quite up to that standard, but still had some killer tracks.) I&#8217;ve already posted &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/west-texas-waltz\/\">West Texas Waltz<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/row-of-dominoes\/\">Row of Dominoes<\/a>&#8221; (the latter of which I also recorded on my CD,\u00a0<em>Street Corner Cowboys<\/em>), as well as Ely&#8217;s own &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/because-of-the-wind\/\">Because of the Wind<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/me-and-billy\/\">Me and Billy the Kid<\/a>,&#8221; and there are more to come, because I immersed myself in those albums, and credit them &#8212; and later Joe&#8217;s solo live shows &#8212; with <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5978\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Joe-Ely-Ponty-Bone.jpg?resize=218%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Joe-Ely-Ponty-Bone.jpg?w=311&amp;ssl=1 311w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Joe-Ely-Ponty-Bone.jpg?resize=300%2C265&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/>transforming my ideas about what I wanted to be playing and how, and why.<\/p>\n<p>I know that sounds over the top, but somehow Joe showed up exactly when I needed him. I&#8217;d come out of my year with Dave Van Ronk playing a huge repertoire of Van Ronk songs, and a lot of old blues guitar arrangements, and some half-assed swing&#8230; and yet, I had always loved rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll, and a lot of my skills were better suited to country music, which I had never understood&#8230; and Joe showed up, rocking hard and playing a blend of all of that, plus some Latin rhythms, and making it all sound like solid bar-band music rather than an attempt at some kind of innovative fusion.<\/p>\n<p>And that band. Lloyd Maines on steel, long before he nurtured the Dixie Chicks; Jesse Taylor on lead guitar, sometimes playing too much for my taste, but often right in the pocket; Gregg Wright on bass and Steve Keeton on drums; and Ponty Bone on accordion, adding some Mexican flavor &#8212; my guitar break on this one starts out directly mimicking his accordion break, which I hadn&#8217;t heard in probably twenty years until I just went back and listened to it, but is engraved in my brain.<\/p>\n<p>And that songs. A lot of the best ones were by Butch, and prompted me to hunt up some of Butch&#8217;s albums &#8212; Van Ronk was a huge fan; he once suggested Butch was the only songwriter in the US who could have hit New York the way Dylan did &#8212; but to my tastes, Joe had picked the cream of the crop. And there were also some fine ones by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and by Joe himself.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t one of the masterpieces &#8212; I love the first verse and chorus, but the second doesn&#8217;t stand up &#8212; and I&#8217;ve never performed it onstage and don&#8217;t expect to, but it was one of my first attempts to fingerpick a Caribbean rhythm, and I&#8217;ve been playing it for my own pleasure for almost fifty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is neither the first nor the last Butch Hancock song I learned off Joe Ely&#8217;s terrific string of records in the 1970s. (Actually, I just checked, and this is off his 1981 album,\u00a0Down on the Drag, which was not quite up to that standard, but still had some killer tracks.) 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