This has been my favorite Top 40 country and western single since it first came out so many years ago. It's been re-done in a good cover by Brooks and Dunn, but nothing is as purely musical and openly harmonious as the original. A classic -- "My Maria" -- just listen to the high note (in the vocal) held, howled and dropped during the refrain. It's always reminded me of a lonesome desert wolf (hey - remember Lobo? -- "I Love You Too Much To Ever Start Liking You" had me drowning in my own tears over breaking up with my girlfriend when I was 17 years old).
Thank you, B.W. Stevenson for giving my cousin Stu Schulman (best pedal steel guitar player from Texas to Alaska!) his first big break in the music industry.
The RadioDAZZ Blog salutes you. One of my favorite country crossover songs, with fabulous high notes and rich, full harmony. Great guitar work -- key of E Major rings out like religion. Thumbs up!
Uncle Dazz respectfully requests that you either click on the link or on the video player below and (after you've opened the windows to let the breeze in, found a chair that permits you to slouch ergonomically, and gotten a tall glass of iced tea -- preferably with a wedge of lime in it -- and gotten your puppy to where you can pet him) listen to a glorious song - B W Stevenson's very finest, may he rest in peace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdBvTvxHy7E
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How about some B.W. Stevenson revival linkage?
B. W.
Stevenson, born Louis Charles Stevenson, was an American country pop
artist, working in a genre now called progressive country. "B.W." stood
for "Buckwheat." Stevenson is most famous for his song "My Maria",
co-written with Daniel Moore. Wikipedia
Died: April 28, 1988
Binglization (Another Lingovation) Of B.W. Stevenson
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