Track Listing

1. Outlaw Love
2. Break My Heart Again
3. Woman in Love
4. When I Was a Cowboy
5. Land of the Navajo
6. Free Mexican Airforce
7. Panama Red
8. Midnite Moonlite
9. Gypsy King's Farewell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51813 in Music
• Released on: 1992-09-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

There's more to Panama Red than meets the eye.
This is the first album done solely by Peter Rowan and what an album. For those who love his Panama Red (bet that a lot of you newcomers did not know he, not Jerry Garcia, wrote this one!) you will find a whole new world opening up. This ain't your Pappy's bluegrass...but a wild and wooly adventure that is bound to appeal to anyone who decides to take that turn off the mainstream road and explore the many changes it has gone through. I remember Mr Rowan from his days with Bill Monroe, the late great Father of Bluegrass. He was a young performer then, learning the trade of a bluegrass musician...the ultimate in teamwork music...each part is important to creating that high lonesome sound Mr Monroe was fabled for. He later branched out and did Old And In The Way with Dave Grisman and Jerry Garcia...first highlighting Panama Red a la The Acoustic Dead. Twenty years ago, he went completely solo after stints with Seatrain to create this gem. So just find a sweetheart and a fireplace. Cuddle up. Fire this CD up and listen to "Outlaw Love", "Break My Heart Again", and "Midnite Moonlite" and take a magic carpet ride to the Great Southwest. While he does sprinkle a few of his tomes that shall I say, lionize his youthful love of the cannabis plant in "Panama Red" and "Free Mexican Airforce"....they are more amusing and funny than an exhortation to shall I say...inhale. All in all this album is totally timeless, fun and romantic and a must for any free-thinker's CD library...

Groovy hippiebilly-stoner country-grass
Rowan's truegrass glory days came when he was in Bill Monroe's band back in the '66 edition, and then he went all traditional along with Jerry Garcia and the boys in Muleskinner and Old & In The Way... Somewhere in between came the disasterous would-be pop crossovers with Earth Opera and the Rowans (him and his no-account brothers...) Once all the dust settled, though, this turned out to be the album that he'll be remembered for, with several of his best-beloved (and most coherent) classic tunes. Noteably, there's the ultimate stoner/smuggler/pot farmer anthem, "Free Mexican Air Force", propelled by the gorgeous Tex-Mex accordion of his pal Flaco Jimenez, as well as the heady, peyote-inspired spirituality of "Midnight Moonlight", two songs which Rowan fans will never tire of... This album also solidifies his Southwestern desert-mystic mythologizing, a schtick he kept at for years with steadily diminishing results. Here's where it all gels for Peter Rowan... If you ever wondered what the fuss was about with this fellow, try this one out.

5 stars is going a little overboard
I really enjoy this cd, but I think 5 stars may mislead a lot of people (especially if your exposure to Rowan is just Old and In the Way). Other reviews are accurate in terms of drug-hippie mexicali influence. Also should point out that that this album is partially dedicated to the "blue yodeler", Jimmie Rogers so if you are looking for some more contemporary yodeling influenced music, this has quite a bit of that, as well as some great mexican "ayeyieyie's" and so forth...two styles of singing that this reviewer can't find enough of. But buyers should be aware that the live tracks on this album are really quite bad (or that fiddle player is really out of tune). One of the tracks is Panama Red, so if you are looking for a polished version of that song, this album doesn't have it.