I was home one night, reading the November issue of PASTE magazine. PASTE runs a monthly column called 'The Ugly American' by a writer named Hollis Gillespie. It's a really great column, and this month it was on Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone, Arizona. The title: "Another Bad Day At Boothill Graveyard."
Well, that seemed to be the perfect title for a song, so off I went. I even put Hollis in the song (she gets to shoot me in the last verse). I knocked out a guitar & vocal demo on the song and found her website: hollisgillespie.com (check it out - she's written loads of cool stuff!!!) and I e-mailed her an MP3.
Next thing you know, Hollis zips me back an e-mail; she digs the track and was not offended at all that I portrayed her as a gambling drunk who shoots her lover. (Fair play to her!!!). Hollis decides to share the MP3 with a few folks -- and next thing you know, someone with very questionable taste in music decided that it would be a good idea to post an MP3 of the song on the PASTE website. (It's at the bottom of the page.)
You never know where you'll find a great song. Enjoy!
Listen to the full-length version of Another Bad Day At Boothill Graveyard.
