It’s comical, sad; it’s documentary, unreal; it’s about a real ghost town in California; it’s Michael Murphey’s greatest achievement as a song writer; it’s never been released on compact disc; it’s one of my prize LPs; it’s Kenny Rogers and the First Edition; it’s the Ballad of Calico; and I promise you’ve never heard anything like it, period.
Presented here in all it’s double LP, four sided glory.
Side One
Sunrise Overture
Calico Silver
Write Me Down (Don’t Forget My Name)
The Way It Used to be
Madame De Lil and Diabolical Bill
Side Two
School Teacher
Road Agent
Sally Grey’s Epitaph
Dorsey, the Mail-Carrying Dog
Side Three
Harbor for My Soul
Calico Saturday Night
Trigger Happy Kid
Vachel Carling’s Rubilator
Side Four
Empty Handed Compadres
One Lonely Room
Rockin’ Chair Theme
Old Mojave Highway
Man Came up from Town
Calico Silver (reprise)
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oh my god, this is so good!!! thank you!
yeah, it’s one of those things I forget about for years at a time and then find it and fall in love all over again. there are a handful of albums prior to this one that I remember my parents listening to when I was a kid that I reallly should just steal next time I’m down Texas way.
I share your affection for this album - Thank you SO MUCH for posting it. Aside from the sentimental value it has for me it really is an amazingly well produced album and some great songwriting.
It’s great to finally find this again, only… why is it in .mov format? Am I s’pposed to rename the suffix to “.mp3″, or what??
it’s in .mov because I recorded it directly from the LP as one big .aif directly into quicktime (because that’s all I know how to record directly into) and because I don’t really know anything about sound editing software (i use an analog 2-track and equalizer) it was easiest for me to just use quicktime to cut it into pieces and when I saved them it just made .mov files. If you get info on the files you’ll see they’re just AAC audio in a .mov container. you should be able to drop them into itunes or whatever and have them play like normal audio files. or if you’re into it, you should be able to easily re-wrap the files in a .m4a container (i just did exactly that with quicktime - choose export -> movie to mpeg-4 -> in the options set the audio to pass-through -> change the filename to have .m4a instead of .mp4 -> save). either way you definitely do not want to just change the extension to .mp3.
You are friggin AWESOME! I’ve spent the last 4 hours trying to figure out a good way to transfer lps to my computer, specifically for this album. Thanks for doing the dirty work.
I have to agree with Blynch - THANK YOU very much for making this album available! I remember listening to it as a kid (my big sister had the album)and coming across your copy of this very hard to find album is a beautiful surprise. Thanks for making this album available to us! I only wish that Kenny Rogers would publish it again to CD!
Oh my God!, I’ve looked for it for years and years, and thanks to you, Cadet, at last I got.
If anyone is interest, you can convert the tracks with TVC into mp3 and then split themwith Sound Forge.
God Bless you.
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