September 21, 2025
No matter how I try I keep coming back to the same ol' tunes. Just got word out of Texas that we have lost one of our best song writers, Sonny Curtis. He was 88. His friend and neighbor, Coy Prather, emailed me yesterday morning. According to Coy, Sonny told him that he wrote "I Fought The Law" while home at Meadow, Texas "watching a dust storm out a window." Coy adds that Sonny said, "The words just came to me like magic."
Bobby Fuller Four, "I Fought The Law"
"It is a stone-cold stab by youth at the establishment."
—Coy Prather, describing Sonny's take on his classic song, "I Fought The Law" (1966)
Also, those pistol-packin' Go Go Girls in the video are absolutely fabulous and the routine is so over-the-top ridiculous. So much so, I had to watch it twice! Yes, on cue, they fall dead at the end.
And, speaking of classic tunes done right, check this one out:
Billy Gibbons Nails "Route 66"
The right groove, the right speed with those clever little accents on the second verse. The only fly in the ointment is I think Billy chokes on the Kingman lyric? (Just like Mick Jagger does in the Stones version: "Bixlow, Barstow, San Bernadino. . ."). Oh, the Kingman humanity!
But, I digress. Let's get back to the dust.
Daily Whip Out: "Dust to Dust"I'm reading an incredible book, "The Searchers: The Making of an American Classic" by Glenn Frankel on how John Ford made his classic Western and I was tickled by this little tidbit which happened when Ford and his crew were at Monument Valley in the summer of 1955: John Ford almost fired a crew member who "innocently sprayed water on the ground one day. He was only trying to tamp down the dust, the man explained." To which Ford barked, "Hell, that's why I came out here. I want the dust." Adding, "Two things make Western pictures—horse manure and dust."
"A film about racism made by racists."
—Paul Andrew Hutton
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