![]() ![]() That’s the beauty of music and I’m really proud of this. If you put 10 people in a line and you play them a song, they’re all going to have a different picture in their heads. It's hard to count how many artists covered this great country song. “The reason music is so important in my life is because it’s the one art form that creates so many visuals in your brain. One of most influential figure in country music, 78 years old Roy Clark and Buck Trent on Banjo performing legendary country song Ghost Riders In The Sky written in 1948 by Stan Jones. “If the music speaks to you in any way shape or form, then it’s done its job,” says Carter. The track is incredibly cinematic too, recalling the classic American storytellers, but situating the narrative within a contemporary, distinctly British context – the video itself plays out like Jim Jarmusch’s Down by Law crossed with Somers Town by Shane Meadows. ![]() As noted by AZ Lyrics, a ghostly rider warns a cowboy to change his ways, lest he join the damned cowboys thundering. What I wanted from it is I wanted to bring all of my musical tastes and elements into the project and put out something that, more than anything, I wanted to listen to, and that I hadn’t heard before.”ĭebut single Wasteland is a significant departure from his past recordings and hints at the scope and grandeur that characterises the rest of the album. Fast forward to 1948, and Jones remembered the incident and penned the song, 'Ghost Riders In The Sky.' Jones' song differs from the legend in that, in this context, it's less of a portent of doom and more of a morality tale. “The whole point when making the record, was I didn’t want to write something and send it to someone and have them be like, ‘Oh yeah, it sounds just like this.’ That wasn’t the purpose. Accordi per Ghost Riders in the Sky - Pedal Steel Guitar. “It’s a genre that I feel we’ve created in making these songs”, Carter explains. On paper, it shouldn’t work – but it does. It doesn’t sound anything like the shit we’ve got over here that people call country.’ So the way I’ve tried to describe it to people is ‘classic Americana’, which is the Johnny Cash and Elvis side of things. THIS version is waaaaaaaay different, so if this is your first time hearing this tune, you've got some spooky musical homework to do. I remember talking to her about the project and saying, ‘It’s kind of got some country vibes to it’, and straight away she was like, ‘No, it fucking doesn’t. There have been numerous versions of 'Ghost Riders In The Sky' over the past 70 years, most notably the Johnny Cash version or the Marty Robbins version. For her, country music is very different to an English person’s perspective of it. “With regards to the genre”, he begins, “my wife Gillian – who’s from the States – sings in the band. ![]()
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