Now when all this is over, over and through
And all them changes have come and passed
I wanna meet you in the Big Sky Country
Just wanna prove, mama, love can last, yeah
Like Hallelujah in the Big Sky Country
Just like forever and ever is why
Be getting' over in the Big Sky Country
Be kissing time, kissing time goodbye
God knows it's all been done
And let me tell you why
'Cause you held my number, you held my name
You held my body through the thick and thin
On a bed of roses in the Big Sky Country
Spread out to love you
Love you in your second skin
. . .
~ Chris Whitley
I don't know a lot about Chris Whitley except for this song. His genre is "country blues," and I like some of that. I like this song, which I've known for a long time. It's a pretty sexy cowboy song! "Big Sky Country" is on Whitley's early album, Living with the Law, from 1991. John Mayer did a cover of it, but I'm giving you Whitley's version, mostly because the video has some beautiful Montana pictures to accompany the song.
Yes, Montana is "Big Sky Country." This is my second trip to Montana, and if you have never been there, I can tell you that it is everything you would expect it to be. Yesterday, we drove from Ovando to Big Timber, where I got to visit a dear friend of 40 years. We share the same first name! She and I and our good friend Allyn did a couple of road trips together a few years ago. Allyn, Terry, & Terry. AT&T. On this visit, we enjoyed late afternoon cocktails, a fabulous home-cooked meal, a visit from another hometown friend, a walk downtown, two "Dirty Girl" cocktails at the Timber bar, prepared by our hostess's son, and then a lovely stroll home.
Today, Ed and I will drive down to Red Lodge and then navigate the Beartooth Highway, the road that Charles Kuralt famously labeled "the most beautiful drive in America." Talk about switchbacks! Our destination is Yellowstone. And then tomorrow, we will head west through Montana to the Idaho Panhandle. Lots of Montana to see!
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