OK, continuing on with this series, I’ll admit this is a quirky list of songs, but you have to understand that back in the year 1969 was my first exposure to traditional country music and I found I liked a lot of it. Heck, I was the one that suggested to our Top Priority keyboard player Jerry “Keys” Palma that the two of us should start a knock-off C&W band called Jerry “Red River” Palma and The Saddlesores after my brother (and drummer) Mark and our guitarist “The Cat” left to join the armed forces.

Really.

Anyways, on to the song list for this CD – even if some are quirky, you have to admit most are pretty damned good.

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Down On The Corner
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son (one of the GREAT late-’60s protest songs)
The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women
Three Dog Night – Easy To Be Hard
The Monkees – Circle Sky
The Box Tops – Soul Deep
The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man
The Monkees – Porpoise Song
The Monkees – As We Go Along
John Lennon – Give Peace A Chance
The Monkees – Listen To The Band (long version)
Bob Dylan – Lay, Lady, Lay
Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man
Tommy James & The Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion
Sir Douglas Quintet – Mendocino
The Yongbloods – Get Together
The 5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In
The Beatles – Come Together
The Beatles – Something
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Up Around The Bend
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Who’ll Stop The Rain

I know many looking at this list are gonna say, “Hey, Great White Shank, this list is a little ‘poppy’, where’s the heavier stuff – Steppenwolf, Cream, Country Joe & The Fish, The Who, Zappa, Bonzo Dog Band, etc.?” Well, keep in mind I was only fourteen back in 1969; heck, even if my schoolmates wanted to protest about something, it would have only been not getting enough food at school lunch for our quarter. The whole Vietnam/protest/hippie thing was for the older kids, and back then there was a vast – and I mean, VAST – difference, even if you were just two or three years older.

Heck, back in those days I was far more interested in playing baseball and listening to WRKO-AM Top-40 than anything else; the idea of groovy chicks and/or crossing the country in search of the truth and driving a psychedelic VW Microbus with only a Fender Twin Reverb amp and a Ricky 12 knock-off while getting bummed out on grass, Jimi, and Janis was as foreign to me as the idea of voting for Hillary Clinton would be today.