James McMurtry - 2005 - Holiday [originally posted on 11/22/2010]

Predictor. I like that word. Not unless you've been reading my posts, will you know why I'm a predictor. In 2009, I put up two songs by near unknowns, one called “Women” by Jamey Johnson and another called ”Toes” by the Zac Brown Band. Unless you have been partyin' with Slim, ya probably noticed by now, they have become Big Time.

Anyhoo, after too many beers and a few pills, and a lotta crank, this is how that one last brain cell I haven't been able to snuff works. I've wondered how Slim became “Slim”. Do you remember Slim Pickens? Was he named after him? Slim Pickens was a real cowboy He played cowboys in beaucoup Westerns. I think his most famous scene was when he appeared in Dr. Stangelove as Major “King” Kong, a B-52 pilot who rode a nuclear bomb like a bronc rider, waving his hat and hollerin', while being dropped into Russia.

In Mel Brooks's Blazin' Saddles, ol' Slim sat around the campfire eating beans with the rest of the

cowboys. Suddenly, they all started farting. My old potty brain thought this was one of the funniest scenes in the movie- I laughed my ass off! My SongOtheDay name, Rat, came about while typing a story in the dark. I signed “Rat” by missing the Y, which is next to the T, and not checking before I sent it off to “Shlepcar”- now where did that name come from?

If you read my last post, you know I think it oughta be “Smedley Butler”. I also was given a Ojibwe name by a now deceased Uncle. He was a member of the Grand Medicine Lodge. They are called “Midewiwin”. He gave me my Grandfathers name, “NAYGWONABE”. Its meaning is 'Ruffled Feather'.

Anyhoo, it's gonna be Turkey Day this week. That's what we call it. If ya haven't heard, the other name is just pure bullshit. If ya want the truth, this here machine you're on has what really happened!

Here is another crooner I predict will soon make it Bigtime! James McMurtry's “We Can't Make It Here Anymore”- a song he wrote during the Bush Era- I put up previously. This one is called “Holiday”.  It's an old man's song- I can understand the words. It's nice and slow. Larry McMurtry, the author of Lonesome Dove, is his Dad.Rat-a-tat-tat!