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"Riders on the Storm" has been classified as a psychedelic rock, [8] jazz rock, [9] [10] art rock song, [11] and a precursor of gothic music. [12] [13] According to guitarist Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek, it was inspired by the country song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend", written by Stan Jones and popularized by Vaughn Monroe. [14]
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics (2021). Edited by Frank Lisciandro, foreword by Tom Robbins: ISBN 978-0-06302897-5; Stephen Davis, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend, (2004) ISBN 1-59240-064-7; John Densmore, Riders on the Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and The Doors (1991) ISBN 0-385-30447-1
They vary the chords in a 12-bar blues arrangement, which serves as a great tension-and-release pattern". [5] Jim Morrison also supplied some of his own lyrics and only used two of Dixon's verses from Howlin' Wolf's original. [12] Morrison provides the vocal, backed by Ray Manzarek on keyboards and piano, [13] Krieger on guitar, and Densmore on ...
Riders in the Sky included a version on their debut album Three on the Trail released by Rounder Records Group in 1979. [16] An instrumental version by the Shadows reached No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1980. [17] The Outlaws included a recording on their 1980 album Ghost Riders that omitted the last verse.
According to Densmore in his biography Riders on the Storm, individual writing credits were noted for the first time because of Morrison's reluctance to sing the lyrics of Krieger's song "Tell All the People". Morrison's drinking made him difficult and unreliable, and the recording sessions dragged on for months.
"People Are Strange" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. It appears on the band's second studio album, Strange Days, released in September 1967.The song was written by the Doors' vocalist Jim Morrison and guitarist Robby Krieger, although all of the band are credited on the sleeve notes.
A year later, in November 2019, he released his 41st studio album, Three Chords & the Truth. On 5 March 2020 Faber and Faber published Keep 'Er Lit, the second volume of Van Morrison's selected lyrics. [216] It features a foreword of fellow poet Paul Muldoon and comprehends 120 songs from across his career. [217]
It says: "Jerry Scheff – Bass guitar on all tracks except 6; Marc Benno – Rhythm guitar on tracks 3, 4, 5 and 8". "Riders on the Storm" is track 10 (although the tracks in that article are not listed sequentially - that's something else that needs to be corrected).