Thursday, August 30, 2018
It's freakin' hot...
It has been incredibly hot for the three weeks I've been here in Richmond, and in the mid-90s the last couple days. I've spent a lot of time walking around from one place to another, with all my bags, sweating my ass off. This song has come to mind several times as I stand at hot bus stops or carry my bags while doing errands, like I did, most of yesterday.
I first heard this classic cowboy song performed at the Flying X Chuckwagon, a cowboy themed dinner and music venue outside Carlsbad, New Mexico, when I was a kid. That was around 1980. Here's the Sons of the Pioneers with the classic version of the song, Cool Water."
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