What are some of your favorite (semi) contemporay re-cuts of "obscure" older classics?
As an example, I've been discovering that Bill Kirchen and Junior Brown are both huge Red Simpson fans, and have both cut a fair amount of his stuff (Highway Patrol, Nitro Express, Roll Truck Roll...) Kirchen credits an early album of Red's with getting him started in "dieselbilly". Any other examples?
Eric,
Just for the "record",(no pun intended) my good friend,Dennis Payne,wrote the majority of "Highway Patrol",& played guitar on Red's recording of it. He was,about,16 at the time.
He is,also,the nephew of the great songwriter,Leon Payne.
Well it is not a new cut but I would say Farewell Party is the ultimate example. Not a real big song for Jimmy Dickens or Johnny Bush ( all though both excellent cuts) but it became Gene Watson's signature song.
Just spoke w/ "PeeWee" Rogers,who's been playin' steel for the "Spud",goin' on 20 yrs. He said it was Ray Price's band on Jimmy's recording of it,so it could,very well,be Jimmy Day on the Dickens' version also. He,also, said that it was the original recording, preceding Bush's recording.
