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red river dave - authentic hillbilly ballads & topical songs: vol 1 1954-1976 - iron mountain analogue research - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock - Folk

1. California Hippie Murders!
2. Flight Of Apollo
3. The Bay Of Pigs
4. The Ballad Of Patty Hearst
5. The Ballad Of Emmett Till
6. Searching for You, Buddy
7. Answer To The Death Of A President!
8. The Ballad Of Viet Nam (For God And Country And You, Dear)
9. The Ballad Of Marilyn Monroe
10. The Ballad Of Billy Graham
11. Moon O%u2019er The Wall (In East Berlin)
12. The Ballad Of Francis Powers
13. The Red Deck Of Cards
14. The Ballad Of The Alamo
15. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
16. (I Won't Care) A Hundred Years From Now

Notorious for his 1970 song ‘California Hippie Murders!’ - a ghoulish, harrowing, yodelling retelling of the infamous (Charles Manson masterminded) Tate-La-Bianca slayings - Red River Dave was a genuine cowboy singing star turned tabloid balladeer.

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While ‘California Hippie Murders!’ might seem chilling and bizarre, within the body of ‘Red River Dave’ McEnery epic saga songs (collected here for the very first time), it makes perfect sense.

The Moon landings, the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst, the Vietnam conflict, the assassination of JFK, the murder of young Emmett Till, Korean War ‘Manchurian Candidate’ brainwashing, patriotic tirades and Cold War dirges - all grist for the great Red River Dave Hillbilly song-mill.

Often cut within hours or days of the event and pressed as minuscule edition private 45s: the tall, flamboyant, ’Buffalo Bill’ bearded McEnery cut a dashing figure in his gold-sprayed cowboy boots and cracking lariat - as he hawked these handcrafted cuts from the boot of his steer-horned Cadillac.

Some sides presented here are so rare as to be near-mythical - you’ll hear Red River Dave wax about the death of Marilyn Monroe and the Bay of Pigs - in an eccentric and forgotten chronicle of the 20th century experience.