The Greatest Country and Western Song, Ever, and How Rosanne Cash Ruined It

Hands-down the best country and western song ever, ever, ever is “Long Black Veil.” It sounds like the kind of song that should have always existed, been sung by lonely men wandering Scottish moors or something. It was, though, written by some folks whose names we know–Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin–and first recorded by Lefty Frizzell in 1959. If only for the way the phrase, “But sometimes at night, when the cold wind blows, in a long black veil, she cries over my bones,” it deserves to be

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