(Written and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright 1993 re-released and mastered 2012)
Reynold-lots of guitars, bass, knee slap, horse hooves, wooden “train flute,” whoops and hollers, tambourine (Spurs)
Recording engineer-Stymie Seamans (and some “whoops and hollers”)
I realize some of you have heard this one before but I recently received an email about it from a random listener who had only recently discovered it so I thought I would send it out once again. This is quite an old one that Stymie and I recorded years ago one Fall afternoon on his old analog half inch machine. It was a lot of fun which I think is evident.
This song originally came out in 1993 and which I re-released on the “Last Summer” album in 2012.
On all of the more successful “solo” recordings, my friend Stymie Seamans was the engineer and they were recorded in his quaint and somewhat rustic studio near Lake Minnetonka. Stymie and I have worked together so long that not much talk is involved. He knows what I want and exactly knows how to get it realized. I have recorded in many studios great and small (including Paisley Park) but my best records were made in Stymie’s basement.
One source of obvious influence on this song was Ennio Morricone’s music scores for the so-called “Dollars trilogy” which were, as many know, three films shot in Italy starring Clint Eastwood with a Wild West theme; ergo the term “Spaghetti Western.”
Please all stay well.