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I’m proud to announce the release of Hills of Geronimo, co-written with and performed by legendary Nashville songwriter Craig Bickhardt. Also performing on the track is the famed Bill Miller. I’m posting links to YouTube and Amazon. It’s also on iTunes and Spotify. Pardon my interest in filthy lucre, but download it, along with the rest of Craig’s cd, Outpourings. When you do, play it on a decent stereo or some good headphones and then turn it UP.
I grip my iron appaloosa Far out in the Arizona night Cold echoes from the red rock canyons Join me in my midnight ride I faintly hear the phantom war cries Where proud Apache once called home Are those marauding ghosts behind me Or the moon reflecting off my chrome?
In the hills of Geronimo A kingdom will be brought low History robs us of all we call holy It crumbles so slowly here Like the hills of Geronimo
I ride these haunted, crooked highways Among the bones of old mesquite And the lion’s roar of my old Harley Brands a disappearing breed Like it feels a lonely kinship With a people who died wild and proud Fightin’ in defense of freedom’s birth rite Is what this land is all about
In the hills of Geronimo A kingdom will be brought low History robs us of all we call holy It crumbles so slowly here Like the hills of Geronimo
The ride is rough beyond these highway signs At least out here I know the road is mine I’d rather risk it all and sometimes lose Than just cruise along on roads I did not choose
In the hills of Geronimo A kingdom will be brought low History robs us of all we call holy It crumbles so slowly here Like the hills of Geronimo In the hills of Geronimo
Not sure of the faint connection with a motor cycle other than placing modern against old. Maybe more could have been done there but it's a good sounding song. I like the way the chorus kicks in and the musical treatment. Strong shades of Gordon Lightfoot, which is nice.
Vic
It's never too late? Yes it is, so do it now.
If, given time, a monkey can write the complete works of Shakespeare maybe there's hope for me.
Mackie, they did a great job on the arrangement and production. That's why I recommend it be heard on a good stereo.
Vic, it's been a while since I wrote it but the lyric is a brief travelog through the "Hills of Geronimo". I'll bet I was thinking an "iron Appaloosa" was the best way to do that.
I remember seeing this song posted bout a year ago, befre site went down?.
I remember that guitar hook, which I think is hypnotic .
It reminded me of fast car by Tracy Chapman, which interestingly is a slow sing, called fast car. and I remember Japov wanting your song to be upbeat, I thought it worked perfectly riding at night is slower ..
Japov wrong, me right. What else is new
But fantastic news, good to still see songs getting cuts which I thought was obsolete.
listenening and reading lyric again Couch and man oh man, genius in story, lines, structure, History robs us of all we call holy It crumbles so slowly here Like the hills of Geronimo
around the outsider rebel biker in a land where the Apache had dwealt free and fought and died for their right to lives free on the lands of their ancestors before them a special side trip into the total freedom of no road, just raw land as it had been for eons
Craig Bickhardt's guitar and singing really took your words and travelog as you say to how they should be heard.
His England or Me is like one of Chris de Burgh's better ones.
Tell him I like yours but this one captured me as one of fans and I followed the Youtube feed. I'm on The Boys In Line which I like again...again CdBish but high grade with better guitar
I am sending you a PM
If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop
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