We’d been adding, just to amuse each other on stage, adding the Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” lick to any song whenever possible. So we were doing “Hot Rod Lincoln” and i went ‘So-and-so passed me by,’ then I did ‘Johnny Cash passed me by’ and played that lick. Well, from then on it was off to the races.
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| — | Bill Kirchen, on how “Hot Rod Lincoln”, his hit song with Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, became a catalog of twang. (via americanroutes) |
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