![]() ‘One In The Saddle, One On The Ground’ is so intimate you can pretty much hear him drawing breath as he continues the tale from the moment everything changed - Juanita working in the garden one day when a bandit rides up, shoots Dood and steals her. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can sense how this man loomed larger than life for Simpson his lyrics summoning up a seething individual who changed when he found a good woman, Juanita, who calmed his rage. He wastes no time, setting the scene quickly in the opening ‘Prologue’, with sounds of gunfire and the whistling of troops after the Civil War conjuring that specific time and place.ĭiving into ‘Ol’ Dood (Part I)’, the band is led by a scraped and plucked fiddle, as Simpson narrates tautly “he was harder than the nails hammered Jesus’ hands / he was the one they called Dood”. Simpson says he’s only ever really been interested in concept albums, wanting to write an actual story from “front to back”. ![]()
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