Fire on the Mountain: The Charlie Daniels Band

On the Kama Sutra record label (which I read about in the Tommy James book), and later in 1976 Capitol, this is Fire on the Mountain, by the Charlie Daniels Band.  The last two tracks are live performances, recorded at the War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee on October 4, 1974.  Track two is "Long Haired Country Boy" which I thought of this week because at the Westminster Kennel Club's 130th annual Dog Show , a new breed (among 6 others) entrant is the Bluetick Coonhound.  The song goes like this..."People say I'm no-good, and crazy as a loon.  I get st___ed in the morning, I get drunk in the afternoon.  Kinda like my old blue tick hound, I like to lay around in the shade.  An', I ain't got no money, but I damn sure got it made.  'Cos I ain't askin' nobody for nothin', if I can't get it on my own.  If you don't like the way I'm livin', you just leave this long-haired country boy alone.

The  WKC – says the “the Bluetick Coonhound is an athletic, compact, speedy and well-muscled hound, all of which helps it in trailing and treeing raccoons and other small game.  A determined and steady tracker, the standard says that the Bluetick "should be a free tonguer on trail with a medium bawl or bugle voice."  Its name comes from its dark blue coat pattern, covered in ticking and featuring black spots on its ears, back and sides. That color may come from the Grand Bleu de Gascogne (French Staghound) as well as the English Foxhound.  In America, Blueticks were referred to as English Coonhounds for many years.”  Another new breed at the WKC show this year is the Redbone Coonhound.  Probabably mamed for Leon?

There are lots of versions of Trudy on youtube - but this wedding band got to me.