“That raucous, Wild West honky-tonk feel was really in there,” says Mark Wystrach of the famous club the Palomino, where the band recorded a concert LP
Opened in 1949, the Palomino was the premier Los Angeles destination for country music during its run, hosting Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Linda Ronstadt, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, among many others. In the early Eighties, Dwight Yoakam held court there alongside cow-punk favorites like Lone Justice and the Blasters, updating his version of the Bakersfield sound for the rock- and punk-loving patrons.
“The Palomino was cool because it was country-centric but all the guys that balanced the line of rock & roll and maybe on the soul side of things — big influences of ours — [were] coming out there and playing shows,” Wystrach adds. “It was a place people wanted to play. And everybody did, from Waylon [Jennings] to Elton [John] to Dwight Yoakam, you name it. The cast of characters who came through there, it was historic.
“It was like it was locked in the walls or something deep back, all that voodoo and that magic that had happened and the lore,” says Wystrach. “Once they turned the lights down low and the fans and the press and whoever else was there, came in, and the beer started flowing, once the music started, it snapped — for that brief two hours, it was the Palomino. That raucous, Wild West honky-tonk feel was really in there.
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