I think the first time I heard this song, or at least the first time it made an impression on me, I was about 8 or 9 years old, in my grandfather's home listening as he played selections from 78's on his old Victrola. I still own that '78, tho it has long been unplayable, well worn and the wax suffering the ravages of time. It is on Black Cat, a long gone small label from Tennessee. Recorded in 1931, by a fellow named "Sly" Bob Muratta playing a ragtime piano, and with a slightly different intro. Attributing the gunfight to an affair with one man's wife be outed during a card game, by another man who had been caught cheating at cards, seeking to find his own way out of the beating he was about to receive. Downright devious. Over the decades I've heard 100's cover this song, some with variations of the intro, some with no intro, in many genres, blues, bluegrass, folk, jazz, rock, various pop interpretations, even a duet by Sammy Davis Jr. with Frank Sinatra, as cool crooners as they could be, and a nasty, ribald version from Big Mama Thornton that she made last more than 20 minutes shocking an audience of white college kids at Rutgers in NJ, who adored her show.
I keep coming back to this simple performance:
Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly
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"No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him..." John 6:44
"No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him..." John 6:44
"No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him..." John 6:44
I Just Want To Celebrate
"Live and Let Live"
A bit of metal, I think...
Some aren't the best sound quality, but it gets way better if you use google chrome with the equalizer app and know what you're doing with it.
Zelensky: [. . .] We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps specifically we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.
Trump: I would like you to do us a favor though [. . . ]
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