This 10-song album comes with ten unique interpretive pieces of artwork along with short stories on how the songs influenced the writings and style of James Lee Baker. Recorded in Texas and Colorado by Chris Bell (The Eagles, Christopher Cross) and Christopher J. Bloom (The Fray), this project is a collection of intimate and powerful folk tunes.
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This 10-song album comes with ten unique interpretive pieces of artwork along with short stories on how the songs influenced the writings and style of James Lee Baker. Recorded in Texas and Colorado by Chris Bell (The Eagles, Christopher Cross) and Christopher J. Bloom (The Fray), this project is a collection of intimate and powerful folk tunes.
Includes unlimited streaming of Impressions
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
$30USDor more
about
A story about the infamous Ranald S. Mackenzie and his unforgettable atrocities towards Native Americans as part of his duty in the United States Army and Union Army.
lyrics
Well I wondered the trail a mile or three
a day or maybe a week
‘Till I came to that crossroads place
I could no longer speak
Raise my face up to the sky
Where the prairie sun burns white
On the lonely Llano estacado
At the place of the Mackenzie fight
He was the most promising, most promising officer
He was the most promising, most promising officer
Ah the ghost ponies wail in their bloody swale
Where their bones bleach white in the sun
An idle light flashes across the sky
Where the thunder stallions run
And up north in the Big Horn snow
Where the Tongue’s clear waters flow
There’s a cut-throat pony in the blizzard night
Where the old one’s feet were froze
There was the most promising, most promising officer
most promising, most promising officer
Well, I guess its true when they say
Custer died for our sins
I figured he got what he deserved
For the rest of us, well the judge it’s not in
Mackenzie could not bear the burden
And he could not still the cries
He could only dream of a cold army 45
Right between the eyes
He was the most promising, most promising officer
most promising, most promising officer
Raise my face up to the sky
Where the prairie sun burns white
On the lonely llano estacado
At the place of the Mackenzie fight
credits
from Impressions,
released May 6, 2022
Written by Richard W. Todd
Upright Bass: Roscoe Beck
Pedal Steel, Electric Baritone: Doug Pettibone
Acoustic, Vocals: James Lee Baker
Backing Vocals: Molly Venter
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