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The “Okie From Muskogee’s Coming Home,” was something of a throwaway, but its “self referential” nature seems to be in a tradition of country greats revisiting old wells. Two more memorable ones, to my mind:
The great Hank Snow in the late 1970s came out with “I’m STILL Moving On,” which reworked his classic “I’m Moving On” hit from almost three decades earlier. The later version was an autobiographical survey of his career, from his inspiration Jimmie Rodgers, through his friendship with Hank Williams, all the way to his struggle to stay relevant in the “Outlaw” era.
“When it’s all disappeared, you’re gonna find me right here still movin’ on!,” Hank boasts.
Around the same time, the always fascinating Marty Robbins came out with a tribute to his own smash western song “El Paso” from 1960, called “El Paso City.” In the later version, Marty’s a present day traveler jetting into El Paso, who recalls and becomes consumed by the original song while (modestly/disingenuously?”) claiming not to know who sang it! As he delves deeper into the story, present-day Marty decides that he must be the reincarnation of the tragic cowboy who met his violent end in the epic original song. “Could it be that I could be the cowboy in this mystery that died there in that desert sand so long ago?” wonders Marty.
Really nice post luckyoldsun. Thanks for finding these .
Actually “El Paso City” was the second follow-up to El Paso that Marty recorded. I don’t think it was issued as a single but “Feleena” was part of the storyline.
I really loved Hank Snow’s “I’m Still Movin’ On”, which barely dented the charts in 1977. Unfortunately radio had completely tuned out on the 63 year old snow by then , in fact Hank had only one top twenty song after 1968, the 1974 chart topper “Hello Love” “I’m Still Movin’ On” was co-written with Shel Silverstein and comes off one of my favorite Snow albums titled HANK SNOW #104. Chuck Glaser produced the album and Dolly Parton wrote the liner notes – apparently Hank was her Daddy’s favorite singer. Doesn’t surprise me at all since Hank was my Dad’s favorite, too.
Not one of my favorite Merle Haggard albums, but it is still good – I would give it a solid B. I do like jazz and big band swing (and western swing) so hearing the brass and reeds on an album never bothers me I really liked “This Cold War With You” but I am really a big Floyd Tillman fan and can never get enough of his songs