Gypsy Cowboy/Adventure of Panama Red [Original recording remastered, Import]

The New Riders of the Purple Sage | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1972
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B00004YU0J
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,661 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gypsy Cowboy

2. Whiskey

3. Groupie

4. Sutter's Mill

5. Death and Destruction

6. Linda

7. On My Way Back Home

8. Superman

9. She's No Angel

10. Long Black Veil

11. Sailin'

12. Panama Red

13. It's Alright With Me

14. Lonesome L.A. Cowboy

15. Important Exportin Man

16. One Too Many Stories

17. Kick in the Head

18. You Should Have Seen Me Runnin

19. Teardrops in My Eyes

20. L.A. Lady

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

This 2 on 1 features the country-rock act's 1972 album, 'Gypsy Cowboy' and 1973 album, 'The Adventures of Panama Red'. 23 tracks including, 'Panama Red' and 'Lonesome L.A. Cowboy'.2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply sublime., August 30, 2004

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Junglies (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gypsy Cowboy/Adventure of Panama Red (Audio CD)

Reaing the prior reviews I was surprised to discover that Gypsy Cowboy had not had a release here in the United States. Why was I surprised? Well mainly because I have a copy which I purchased in Record Savings in Banbury, Oxfordhire over ten years ago.

I am also surprised because Gypsy Cowboy is such a great album. In some ways it is the epitome of the whole cowboy rock or country rock which began with the Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo and which later blossomed and reinvigorated much of the two genres.

This album is consistently good throughout beginning with the soulful Gypsy Cowboy which no-one could imagine to be the first choice of DJs to play on the radio but which sets the tone and standard for the rest of the album to follow.

This band had finally escaped from the shadow of the Grateful Dead although my strongest feeling about this is that it is very close in feel to Garcia's first album and highlights his own skill with the pedal steel guitar. It is clear too that the songwriting talents of Dawson and Torbet werein some competition with each other producing some very high quality songs indeed.

Some of the standard themes are clearly in evidence, illegal whiskey running and trying to escape the taxman and the finding of gold during the goldrush days testify to the attractions of the cowboy image of individuality and finding your own way in life while the conflicting images of women portrayed in Groupie and Linda as well as She's No Angel are clearly articulating the contentious dichotomy which they play in men's lives.

The highlight for me of this album has to be Death and Destruction not only because of the subject matter which compares historic human disasters against the then contemporary anti-capitalistic view of the American way of life which the musicians had rejected in favour of the earlier rugged individualistic cowboy era. The lyrics are very evocative and bring horrific images to mind while the music skillfully complements those images but soars into the stratosfear nevertheless. Apocalyptic in more senses than one.

Others have remarked upon the individual musicians and with whom I heartily concur but this is certainly a case not of their being "there are are no I's in Team" but of "Team is made up of I's". Certainly their reputations as individual musicians was already high but this combination is greater than that.

Revisiting this album some twenty-two years after it's release, it is surprising in some ways, but not in others, hhow new and refreshing this album sounds today. A classic of it's time which I would sum up in one word...

...sublime.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gypsy Cowboy-Great lost classic, April 17, 2003

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J. Werfelman (Sciota, Pa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gypsy Cowboy/Adventure of Panama Red (Audio CD)

I am so psyched this finally came out on Cd,because this is one of the if not the best psychedelic country rock album ever.
Songs of love,whisky.great open spaces and groupies are backed
by the rythem section of Spencer Dryden(Jefferson Airplane) on
drums and Dave Torbert on bass. David Nelson's country tinged
lead guitar and Buddy Care's scorching and beautiful pedal steel
fill out the sound landscape. Country music with a rock beat they said. If you saw the riders in concert in the early seventies
they tore up halls thruout the country. Finally "Death and
Destruction" is worth the price by itself. A 12 minute plus
rocking jam highlighted by Cage's scorching steel this song
should have got the same type of recognition as something like
"Green grass and high tides" by the Outlaws. This album makes
is one of those great records most people never heard. Now you
have your chance.Go for it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gypsy Cowboy, the long lost under-appreciated NRPS disc, October 28, 2001

By 

Chip Atkison (Denver, Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gypsy Cowboy/Adventure of Panama Red (Audio CD)

Gypsy Cowboy was the first release of the New Riders featuring Buddy Cage that was complete in its selection of music and production.

It achieved a higher plain of "psychedelic ranger" exploration than any of their previous and subsequent releases and was the most enjoyable ranking slightly above the debut album.

John Dawson's lyric composition and mornful singing came as close to 3 dimensional as any on this release.

Buddy Cage's pedal steel coloration added great depth, as well.

Dave Torbert and David Nelson never overstated their playing, singing and compostional contributions.

To have this released with the more "commercial" (can this music ever be considered commercial?) Panama Red is all any NRPS fan could want.

If this is your band, then this is your disc.

Don't let this one slip away.