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

[larryhammer]

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.