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Musical interlude.

Thursday, March 31st, 2022

I feel like it is time for one of those.

I have been resisting reading The Cartel (affiliate link) for reasons. I actually started to type those out here, but then reconsidered.

Anyway, I have been sort of flipping through it before I go to bed, and Winslow used a line from this song as an epigraph for one of the chapters. I had not heard of it, or Tom Russell, before, so I looked it up on Apple Music and liked it.

Tom Russell also did a cover of this song with Joe Ely, but I thought I’d throw up a version with just Ely. As Lawrence once put it, this is the greatest song ever written about a rooster.

I feel sure I have mentioned this song before, which I picked up from another blogger (I don’t remember who) but a search does not turn it up under the title or singer. In any case, I feel like it is worth mentioning here, because it seems to have recently become available digitally on Apple Music and Amazon (affiliate link) in “The Legacy Collection Volume 3: Damron Sings Henderson”. Previously, I could only find it on YouTube, and the CDs were unavailable.

“Pull your sights up to 800 and hold a yard left for the wind” makes me smile every time. It also reminds me of Lindy Cooper Wisdom’s poem, “Grandpa’s Lesson“.

…But ain’t many troubles that a man cain’t fix
With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

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Brief note on film.

Thursday, March 31st, 2022

I don’t usually make note of individual podcast episodes here. There has to be some compelling reason for me to do so.

In this case: “The comedies of Preston Sturges“, from “Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast”.

I actually have several reasons for this one:

  • I’m very interested in Preston Sturges. I have not seen “Sullivan’s Travels” or “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek”, but I very much want to see both. “Miracle” got a really good write-up in Joe Bob Briggs’s Profoundly Erotic, but there doesn’t seem to be a blu-ray, and the DVDs are expensive. Criterion needs to do an edition of that, since they’ve already done “Sullivan’s Travels” (affiliate link). (At some point, Lawrence and I plan a Saturday night double bill of “The Freshman” and “The Sin of Harold Diddlebock”.)
  • Joel McCrea, who we have seen recently elsewhere, and who I would like to see more of. He seems like a truly interesting gentleman.
  • Veronica Lake is always in order.
  • As I’ve said before, Anthony Esolen is a writer I greatly admire. (I found this while searching for an essay he wrote on the films of John Ford. Edited to add: finally found that essay, and added a link.)

Anyway, I commend this to the attention of the movie buffs in my audience.

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