Saturday, August 8, 2009

A Cautionary Tale

Rose

Rose Maddox - Philadelphia Lawyer (alt. take 5) (buy)

This song written by Woody Guthrie, as sung by the always-engaging Rose Maddox, is one of the great country murder songs. Of course, in this Reno murder the victim really had it coming to him (unlike that poor sap in Cash's song).

Doug Sahm did a great version with the Sir Douglas Quintet.
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