Halloween Hits to R.I.P. By - The Cowboy's Lament

By Bennett Owen

A poem long before it was a ballad, The Streets of Laredo is more sad than frightful, but the image of a cowboy wrapped in white linen... 'cold as the clay' yet walking the streets of a hot, dusty border town...goose bumps and sleepless nights guaranteed.  Don Edwards does the best version I've heard in years, along with some turn of the century postcard imagery of 'The Gateway to Old Mexico'...fascinating and evocative accompaniment: