Recorded at Kitchen Sink Studios, Santa Fe, NM, November 2018.

Engineered by Jono Manson.

ROSES RED ROSES

And all that had happened

Happened over again

Written in 1968 “under mind-expanding and/or mind-dismembering circumstances,” this long narrative ballad, a brutally violent Western tragedy about the travels and tribulations of a gunslinging Shawnee “girl of mystery” who “fires her long rifle at the sun going down,” remained unrecorded (“ancient and buried”) for fifty years.