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EdLittlefield,Jr. MyWesternHome Ed Littlefield, Jr.'s self-proclaimed objective is to reach the kind of transcendence in his music that brings him to tears. He sings cowboy songs, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, mandocello, pedal steel guitar, dobro, piano, bass, and backing vocals. My Western Home is his second solo album and features cowboy classics both traditional (“Get Along, Little Doggies” and “Red River Valley”) and modern (“Darcy Farrow” and “Four Strong Winds”).! ! ! ! ! ! “The way I play the songs, the way I arrange them, is how I imagine cowboys would have, just sitting around the camp fire playing for fun, with no thought to whether they would get airplay.” ! As evidence, listen to his version of “Spanish Is A Loving Tongue,” running 15 minutes. The acoustic lead guitar was re- corded in one long first take without edits. " You gotta figure there's more going on here than a rehash of out takes from some old Sons of The Pioneers chestnuts volume pedals immediately. The intona- extracted from a Roy Rogers matinee tion, I could hear it right away.” shoot-em-up. In a voice that's weathered, ! Born into a family which became one wistful and a little weary, he brings to of the largest holders of ranch land in the traditional cowboy songs a new vibrancy west, Ed and his brother fell in love with like rain drops dancing in desert dust. the land and ultimately chose to live in ! Grateful Dead drummer Mickey the country. That family business, the Hart says Ed's music “ just glistens.
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