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Long Ride on a Slow Horse

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Tracks remastered and reissued on the Put on the Featherhead / Long Ride on a Slow Horse compact disc.

Release Info
Cover Art
Band Memoirs

Release Info

Tracks

The Shade
I Think That I Love Her
Young Love (His House)
I Hate You
The Riding Song
Fatta Fatta
Golden Calf
I Saw Him Go Crazy
Rebecca
Warm Inside
Clearly
Young Love (the Square)

Kar: vocals
Mr. Ed: guitar and backing vocals
Ran: bass
Spike: drums

Produced by The Blanks. All songs written by The Blanks.
Recorded live to two-track at Comfort Castle, San Marcos, Texas, January 1991.
Mastered for CD and digital distribution by Kar at Lopwood Studios, Cypress, Texas, February 2006. Reissue cover art taken from “Young Love (The Square)” comic by Ran. Reissue package design by Kar.
©1991 The Blanks.

1991: First issue, cassette, Blanks Enterprises
2006: Reissue, compact disc (with Put on the Featherhead), Blanks Enterprises.

Cover Art

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Long Ride on a Slow Horse reissue cover

Featherhead / Long Ride CD cover

Featherhead / Long Ride CD liner notes

Featherhead / Long Ride CD label

Original “Young Love (The Square)” comic

Band Memoirs

This album was us, kind of winding down, with something simple and uncomplicated after Sweet Love. Sadly, Sweet Love was such a huge and prolific release that this album is mostly forgotten now and at the time of its release.

This album was straightforward recording and a lot of fun to do. It was freezing cold in the studio, and Mr. Ed, Ran, and I grabbed some beer and just started writing music. When we got done writing it we called Kar, and I think we drove to Austin to pick him up right then. We thought it might be fun to issue musical challenges to Kar's vocal stylings. We were eagerly awaiting Kar's reaction when we told him that he should scat on “Warm Inside.” He rose to the occasion and created the album's biggest hit, though it was small in comparison to the stuff from Sweet Love. I think with all the songs we kind of looked at it as a type of experiment. Kind of like we were saying, “Let's see how Kar responds vocally to this country type of song, or Blues song, or whatever.” Almost all of the songs on Long Ride... have roots in other types of music. We were kind of paying tribute to our influences, though I don't think even we knew at the time that jazz/scat was an influence of ours. There are touches of Blues, Country, Jazz, Mo-Town, 50's style and of course some New Wave on that album.

Unlike Sweet Love which took a period of months to complete, this album was done in one or two days. That in itself was what we needed at the time.

– Spike