and then he saw something else he'd never seen in that little town before ...

The subject line of this post comes from "Her Point of View" by Ned Sublette, my favorite track from Cowboy Rumba -- an album that after over a decade remains on my high rotation list. It's got a lot to like, starting with a merengue cover of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and ending with the country/Cuban fusion of the title song. But it's "Her Point of View" I love the most. It starts out interesting enough, but then halfway through it transforms into something else entirely -- and along the way transforms everything that comes before into something new and, for lack of a better word, humane. And then it heads off to Cancún for the weekend. (This almost makes sense in context.)

It doesn't hurt, of course, that I know exactly the kind of New Mexico town it's set in.

But anyway, by way of sharing the love, here's a download until it expires in a week. Grab, listen, and then go buy (amazon, iTunes, wherever), either just the song or the whole album. It's worth it.

... and from the way she was dressed / and the way she was standing / and the way she was smoking / it was clear what she was there for

---L.