You are corrupting the youth, and I heartily ask you to continue. I caught Dylan red-handed viewing cm.com and chortling–yes, actual chortles were heard. But the boy done been sprayed with the anti-chortle, and he’s off to read a good book. This song is ridiculously good CM, and particularly so given the challenge of the subject-matter. Quit the day job and get on with the real deal (sorry Jade). For all you youngins: for outlaw-song-gestalt I recommend the seriously underrated Pat Garret and Billy the Kid Soundtrack by, oh say, Bob Dylan. In addition to the seminal Knocking on Heaven’s Door, there’s a cornucoppia of outlawish revivalism on there. None other than Tom Brosseau has mightily covered said material.

Happy Easter all.

Kim

Krazy Kendall–i did spot Mundell’s capo residing upon the 4th fret during this bandit ballad.

CM–I like this song way more than any of Bon Jovi’s “songs”. I always hoped they’d find dead when he sang that stupide dead or alove song. Yes, although I am a “Pistola por Dios”, I like your “Brave Bandit” tune even more than livin’ on a prayer or Madonna’s like a prayer. call me a heretic.

Angela–you are part of the funny stuff here at CM too. It’s so cool how Chris sends us checks for our comments.

A Quadruple: which is a term from mathematics, depicting an n-tuple with n being 4. This means it depicts four elements, with the order of the elements carrying meaning. This differs from a set, where the order of the elements is meaningless and where no element could exist more than once

I guess you are indeed all an element which works out if I may be outlawish here:

Chris-Funny man element
Andy-MOFO element
Hislop-Faith Based element
Knoles-Good look-charm element

I guess ya’ll are outlaws after all! Pistolas por Dios!!!

Makes me want to start a song-writing crew here…:)