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From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed") (writer: unknown - public domain) According to Wikipedia, “Shenandoah" (also called “Oh Shenandoah", or "Across the Wide Missouri") is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, dating at least to the early 19th century. It was first printed as part of William L. Alden’s article “Sailor Songs” in the July 1882 issue of “Harpers New Monthly Magazine”. The song had become popular as a sea chanty by the 1880’s. Although Jeff had previously treated this old melody as a dreamy guitar instrumental on his 2008 album “Reflections at Every Corner”, he took a totally different approach here. He completely changed the melody, chord structure, tempo and even messed with the lyrics, and added some of his own verses. Is it sacrilegious to change Shenandoah so drastically? I don’t know; Jeff hasn’t been struck by lightening or by a musical purist yet. What was he trying to do by changing this song so extensively? He imagined what the young Johnny Cash and his trio might have done with this song for Sun Records in a rockabilly format back in the late 50’s, and thus tried to create that groove. Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters. Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.