Bent Fender & the Moonglows
Zoomer Roberts: guitar & vocal
Tony Custer: piano & vocal
Bill Owen: bass
recorded June 1973 at the King's X
"I Fought the Law" is deeply ingrained in El Paso's collective consciousness, and all of us have tried our hand at it at one time or another. Singing it is one thing, but the lead guitar part is another: it's all in the wrist, and I never had a light enough touch to pull it off. We got around that by having Tony do the lead work on the piano. He could, and would, play anything. The tape ran out during the second chorus, so I copied sections from earlier in the song and grafted them to the end to make a complete performance. It's not revisionist history. It's "post-production."
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El Paso artist Pat Olchefski-Winston (Buddy's wife) did this vibrant water color of Buddy and me in 2001. For more information about Pat and her work, go to: www.olchefski.com and www.artistsofthesouthwest.com
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What it is...
I've been playing music in the El Paso area for nearly fifty years, and I've accumulated hundreds of tapes along the way. Here they are. Most of these performances were captured with inexpensive portable equipment in living rooms, taverns, houses of worship, festival tents and theatres. Some were recorded off the radio, some directly from public address systems. A few were actually recorded in professional recording studios. Some of these hands are folded now, and some of these voices are stilled. This is what I've done, where I've been and who I've known. This is my scrapbook.
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- Clinch Mountain Backstep
- Beat It
- This Heart of Mine
- She
- Faithless Love
- Some of Shelley's Blues
- I Fought the Law
- Hello Mary Lou
- Crocodile Rock (upgrade)
- Heart of My Heart
- Break-Up
- It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes A Train to Cry
- Men With Broken Hearts
- Whiskey and the Wheel
- Gold Watch and Chain
- Your Sweet and Shining Eyes
- I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
- Early Morning Rain
- Titanic (Fare Thee Well)
- I Would Like To See You Again
- "Picker of the Year" Award ~ 1982
- Party Doll
- Dixie Fried
- Fool
- Dixie
- Blown Up On KLAQ Radio
- The World Is Waiting For the Sunrise
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Art by Pat Olchefski-Winston
El Paso artist Pat Olchefski-Winston (Buddy's wife) did this vibrant water color of Buddy and me in 2001. For more information about Pat and her work, go to: www.olchefski.com and www.artistsofthesouthwest.com
With Ernest Tubb ~ 1980
Back in 1983 with Mickey Cochran (guitar) and Bobby Napier (fiddle). Bobby went on to bigger things, including a stint with Tammy Wynette.
1980s Bidness Card
