Thursday, April 3, 2008

Dixie

The Lariat Cowboys
recorded May 2, 1981
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & guitar
Jimmy Smith: fiddle
Tony Quero: bass
Mark Kays: drums

Southern Rock was loud and exciting, and fired-up patrons often shouted requests for "Dixie" after being sonically sandblasted by the latest Charlie Daniels opus, so we worked it up. I only used the first verse of the song -- subsequent verses deal with such antebellum esoterica as "buckwheat cakes and injun batter," and are best left to students of minstrelsy.