tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1147106559302053262..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: El PasoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-74195609438691186852012-04-29T09:54:11.376-07:002012-04-29T09:54:11.376-07:00Sí, Terry, me gusta, Rosa's!Sí, Terry, me gusta, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvy2oXs5k1s&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Rosa's</a>!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38007561754090170332012-04-29T09:38:20.380-07:002012-04-29T09:38:20.380-07:00Tom: I guess we could verify all this by checking ...Tom: I guess we could verify all this by checking with Rosa herself. According to Wikipedia, there is an actual neighborhood bar called<br /><br /> Rosa's Cantina<br /> 3454 Doniphan Drive<br /> El Paso TX 79922-1644<br /> (915) 833-0402tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42267724615666709552012-04-29T06:28:48.103-07:002012-04-29T06:28:48.103-07:00Couldn't agree more sinfully with your take on...Couldn't agree more sinfully with your take on Marty's terrifically cynical rendition of his classic ballad, Terry.<br /><br />A terrible fallen world this we're in, is it not?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8492696455374534152012-04-29T06:17:35.864-07:002012-04-29T06:17:35.864-07:00Tom: That's a very funny & campy version o...Tom: That's a very funny & campy version of the song, obviously colored by his having performed it so often for so many years. There seemed to be some conspicuous winking and nodding over "Rose's back door" and being "back in the saddle," etc. But maybe that's just my sinful perspective.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18138675219485570322012-04-29T03:19:13.691-07:002012-04-29T03:19:13.691-07:00Susan,
Well, down by the borderline probably ever...Susan,<br /><br />Well, down by the borderline probably everybody always misses somebody.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhW4WY9s_ws&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Corinna Corinna</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42489268695713184332012-04-29T00:52:08.350-07:002012-04-29T00:52:08.350-07:00My sister Corine was so in love with Marty Robbins...My sister Corine was so in love with Marty Robbins. It just didn't seem right when she got married.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39567850993562016802012-04-28T20:08:45.059-07:002012-04-28T20:08:45.059-07:00Many thanks, sweet friends.
Let us gather in that...Many thanks, sweet friends.<br /><br />Let us gather in that cantina by the border, some fair day... for a soul-restoring cup of herbal tea, perhaps?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90010710445232144132012-04-28T13:27:57.326-07:002012-04-28T13:27:57.326-07:00First the other day - Russell Lee and his wonderfu...First the other day - Russell Lee and his wonderful photos of San Augustine, TX, and your poem and the photos posted with "Best Intentions," and now -- El Paso and Marty Robbins! Great reading, viewing and listening.Marciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150292834089323928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51220648447465244182012-04-27T19:16:08.474-07:002012-04-27T19:16:08.474-07:00I love the line --dawn bringing the usual feeling ...I love the line --dawn bringing the usual feeling of not being in this world anymore.<br />I am feeling like that now, and dawn is a ways off . . . <br /><br />I don't know Marty Robbins though. Must check this out.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31503022320776770922012-04-27T10:43:37.188-07:002012-04-27T10:43:37.188-07:00August, 1993, the month there were two full moons—...August, 1993, the month there were two full moons— 8/01 and 8/31—the latter one seen from Ken Osborne’s flat overlooking El Paso. He had driven my wife and I all the way from John Levy’s house in Tucson to spend a week with him on the US-Mexican border—thanks for the poem and video which sends us back to good times with cherished, old friends.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1994271741729452192012-04-27T07:56:15.495-07:002012-04-27T07:56:15.495-07:00Hazen,
Marty's song, with its remarkable unfo...Hazen,<br /><br />Marty's song, with its remarkable unfolding linear narrative, is quite a piece of work really -- a throwback to the traditions of the Border Ballads, in both (or perhaps more) senses of that term.<br /><br />I recall a visit to El Paso in February, once long ago. Dry heat, temps in the 90s, quite a shock coming from the Pacific Coast.<br /><br />About those long-ago south of the border expeditions, your account reminded me of this sobering little sequence by Arthur Rothstein:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/arthur-rothstein-death-in-matamoros.html" rel="nofollow">Sojourn in Matamoros</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60638617200216977562012-04-27T07:39:35.063-07:002012-04-27T07:39:35.063-07:00El Paso was a long haul from Austin, where I was a...El Paso was a long haul from Austin, where I was at UT, when this was a hit for Robbins. I remember many a day hearing this and feeling that it went with the heat and the glarey sky. Sometimes it came on the car radio when we’d be driving across South Texas scrub, where tarantulas as big as your hand might amble across the two-lane blacktop. We were headed to Mexico and cross-border incursions into towns like Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa and Matamoros, so we could drink in the bars and clubs where the “hostesses” were always from Mexico City, or so they told us. Not that I would know. We liked tequila; and Carta Blanca and Bohemia, two exotic beers (to us) that were pretty much shut out in Texas by Lone Star and Pearl, brewed in San Antone with water from the Edwards Aquifer. Shiner, back then, was both a small town and a lesser-known Texas brew. The Napoleonic Wars in Europe spurred waves of migrations from Central Europe to this country, my German ancestors among them. Life is strange. Beautiful, but exceedingly strange.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10363035555970035462012-04-27T07:02:26.909-07:002012-04-27T07:02:26.909-07:00Steve,
Yes, so much wetness, so much green, so fa...Steve,<br /><br />Yes, so much wetness, so much green, so far from the high dry borderlands where, though riddled with lead, Marty would not think to put down his guitar, ever.<br /><br />And it does seem we're not alone in this season of drenching. Nin Andrews, back East in Ohio, has been posting some great photos of the intense wet-season Green Worlds there.<br /><br />Such as <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ad8e9zwpVx4/T5cefujz9aI/AAAAAAAADvA/yeeSpkZsuaU/s1600/IMG_1451.JPG" rel="nofollow">this one</a> and <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-azgFFT3eoeU/T5gjdcD7SDI/AAAAAAAADvw/4Ais65TvYaQ/s1600/IMG_1461.JPG" rel="nofollow">this one</a>.<br /><br />Beauteous enough to quench the thirsts of even a fossilized soul.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17357064023241579502012-04-27T06:34:31.174-07:002012-04-27T06:34:31.174-07:00Tom,
After all these weeks of rain, the world aro...Tom,<br /><br />After all these weeks of rain, the world around here seems indeed to be "covered in dark green paint" -- perhaps not down there in the West Texas town of El Paso, nor down there on the eastern slope of Cerro San Francisco.<br /><br />4.27<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />plane of ridge, bird calling from field<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> what was instant, phenomenon<br /> appropriate to itself<br /><br /> almost, in closest proximity,<br /> living without memory<br /><br />grey white clouds against top of ridge,<br />shadowed green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19015324965118763582012-04-27T06:15:57.382-07:002012-04-27T06:15:57.382-07:00Curtis,
Well, that makes two of us.
Marty's...Curtis,<br /><br />Well, that makes two of us. <br /><br />Marty's performance is astonishing. He'd obviously done the song so many thousands of times. And yet, amazingly, he's not mailing it in. "The layers of irony, the knowingness, the wink-wink aspect," as Angelica puts it. "It's supposed to be this tragic song, and he's sounding so cheerful about it!" <br /><br />The spoof/goof potential is certainly there... and Steve Martin really picks that up and rides it. (Into the ground, should we say?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79550062315110632062012-04-27T05:56:58.390-07:002012-04-27T05:56:58.390-07:00I really love this medley. And I wish I could sin...I really love this medley. And I wish I could sing like Marty Robbins (or sing at all for that matter). This is mysterious, funny and touching. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43432995424296809292012-04-27T03:07:07.617-07:002012-04-27T03:07:07.617-07:00Marty Robbins (live): El Paso
El Paso (Ganesha v...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3JB51NH_M" rel="nofollow">Marty Robbins (live): El Paso</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqrr-N4ue0c" rel="nofollow">El Paso (Ganesha version)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com