Roxy Gordon Crazy Horse Never Died VINYL LP
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| Artist: | Roxy Gordon |
| Title: | Roxy Gordon Crazy Horse Never Died VINYL LP |
| Released: | 12/05/2023 |
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| Format: | VINYL LP |
| Country | EU/US |
| Barcode: | 843563149034 |
| Catalogue number: | POB068LP |
| Store location: | pre-order |
| SKU: | WLF08329 |
| Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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RIYL: Terry Allen, Leonard Cohen, Willie Dunn, John Trudell, Buffy St. Marie & Townes Van Zandt. The first-ever reissue, a decade in the making and the first in an archival series, of Roxy Gordon’s scarce and long out-of-print 1988 album, his first widely distributed set of recordings. Deluxe LP features 140g virgin vinyl; a gatefold jacket with restored, new, and alternate art and photos; and a 48pp. chapbook with lyrics, essays, photographs, and First Coyote Boy’s extraordinary drawings for each song. (LP only). Deluxe CD gatefold jacket with restored, new, and alternate art and photos, and insert. “Roxy Gordon is a brother of mine. I don’t like the word ‘poet’; it is usually used too lightly. Roxy, however, is a real one. God bless him and the buffalo he rode in on.” Townes Van Zandt // “His work is strong. The word goes out. Can a change come on dove’s feet?” Leonard Cohen // “Roxy Gordon is one of the great outlaw artist American misfits. He writes like an angel and sings like livin’ hell. His voice is as stone, true as the history of blood and dirt.” Terry Allen // The Choctaw, Assiniboine, and Texan poet, journalist, visual artist, American Indian Movement activist, and musician Roxy Gordon (First Coyote Boy) (1945–2000) was above all a storyteller, known primarily as a writer of inimitable style and unvarnished candor, whose wide-ranging work encompassed poetry, short fiction, essays, memoirs, journalism, and criticism. Over the course of his career he recorded six albums, wrote six books, and published hundreds of shorter texts in outlets ranging from Rolling Stone and The Village Voice to the Coleman Chronicle and Democrat-Voice, in addition to founding and operating, with his wife Judy Gordon, Wowapi Press and the underground country music journal Picking Up the Tempo. Along the way he cultivated close friendships with fellow Texan songwriters such as Lubbockites Terry Allen, Butch Hancock, and Tommy X. Hancock, as well as Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billy Joe Shaver, and, most famously, Townes Van Zandt, whom he called his brother. Although his work covered a vast array of topics exploring strata personal, local, global, and cosmic alike, Gordon’s primary subject as a writer, musician, and visual artist was always American Indian culture, specifically the ways it collided and coexisted with European American culture in the South and West and within the context of his own life and braided identity. The ten songs on Crazy Horse Never Died, his first officially released and distributed album, were recorded in Dallas in 1988. “Songs” is perhaps an imprecise taxonomy for what Roxy captured on this and his other albums, all of which remain out of print or were released in instantly obscure limited editions of homebrew cassettes and CD-R’s. (Paradise of Bachelors plans to reissue remastered, expanded editions of his catalog; Crazy Horse is the first.) He only occasionally attempted to sing, and his musical recordings are primarily corollaries of, and vehicles for, his poems. His sharp West Texan drawl, tinged by formative years of reservation living in Montana and unmistakable once you hear it high, lonesome, flat, and cold-blooded as a bare rusty blade instead patiently unfurls in skewed sheets of anecdotal verse and discursive narrative rants. His songs are essentially recitations over backing tracks of fingerpicked guitars, rubbery washtub bass, and buzzing, oscillating keyboards. On the stark yellow and red jacket of Crazy Horse, which he designed himself, Gordon describes these recordings as innately ambivalent in terms of form, content, and identity: These are poems and/or songs about the American West, white and Indian.
| 1 | Crazy Horse Is Alive |
| 2 | Junked Cars |
| 3 | Living Life As a Living Target |
| 4 | Flying Into Ann Arbor (Holding) |
| 5 | I Used to Know an Assiniboine Girl |
| 6 | The Hanging of Black Jack Ketchum |
| 7 | The Western Edge |
| 8 | An Open Letter to Illegal Aliens |
| 9 | The Texas Indian |
| 10 | Why Do I Miss Someone? |
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