TS: Cowgirl In The Sand vs. Down By The River

How about overlaying some country dance rhythms and calling it "Boot-Scootin' Cowgirl"? (Also meant for the terrible ideas thread.)

now that is a terrible idea.

i still think this is a good idea
wondering if anyone had tried it, i just searched for "cowgirl in the sand" + solo and found this thread on the third page of results

haha, I did. there was one transition that didn't work and I never got around to going back and fixing it. sounded pretty cool tho.

I wanna hear it!

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"Cowgirl in the Sand" in a movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK31JPnSWeg

recorded 50 years ago today (river)/tomorrow (cowgirl)

I've always thought that Cowgirl was the sound of the last big log being thrown on the last campfire on earth.

Cowgirl 4eva

i agree with both of the previous posts! it has a crackle and a sizzle and an air of The End! i never ever get sick of cowgirl, sometimes i tire of the river (just a little)

happy 50th birthday to these two great songs!!

i realize that post was inane but obvs inspired by love

i love you, down by the river and cowgirl in the sand!
if you want to listen to two very lo-fi (but very HOT) live versions from 1970, here you go: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/182086674297/down-by-the-river-cowgirl-in-the-sand-neil

at some point in the mid-80s i saw this version of 'river' (with the international harvesters in 1984) on austin city limits. in retrospect probably pales beside other live performances with other backing bands but as a 13yo i remember being utterly hypnotized by it. which is why i probably voted 'river'

On the album, "Cowgirl" easily. But as a jam that's 47 years long, this is shivers when they finally hit the chorus after suspense that goes longer than the whole studio version of "River".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI2ey2g8pcM

River is moodier but Cowgirl has more interesting stiff going on musically. That Dm7 stomp underneath “it’s rhe woman in you...” is so great

Also, River is moving, but is hardly alone as a "shot my woman song", where on Cowgirl, the fever-dream altered state is palpable and strange.

Ha, I just listened to this record a couple hours ago.

River is the sound of the coming apocalypse; Cowgirl the sound of everything lost in it.