The Long Ryders

Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

We kinda liked that jangly, big country, uh, The Alarm, like I said, um, The Long Riders, you know, with Sid Griffin.

That was the beginning of my direction towards Gram Parsons and old country, like Lefty Frizzell and Porter Wagoner, and it just, you, you name it.

There's a great, uh, podcast.

He wrote a book about him and helped introduce his music to another generation through this band.

From 1985, here are The Long Ryders with Looking for Lewis and Clark.

[rock music] I thought I saw some diplomat hawking secret plans in the park.

I thought I saw my president walking in Harlem late after dark.

Lookin' for Lewis and Clark.

Well, when Jim get to heaven, oh, he told Gram.

About The Long Riders and just who I am.

Yeah, no one gave Jim reason to believe, so he just packed his bags to leave.

So I just started trying to find out about Gram Parsons.

And I believe it was in the '80s when Sid Griffin, who was in a very cool, he started this really, um, great band out of LA, but he was originally from Kentucky, called The Long Ryders, which was one of the first country, you know, cow punk bands.

And they just reunited recently again-

Mm