Draft:Running Gun Blues

"Running Gun Blues" is a song by the English musician and singer-songwriter David Bowie from his third studio album The Man Who Sold the World.

"Running Gun Blues"
Song by David Bowie
from the album The Man Who Sold the World
Released4 November 1970
GenreBlues
Length3:11
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)David Bowie
Producer(s)Tony Visconti

Reception

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Ned Raggett of AllMusic states: "The Man Who Sold the World remains one of the more curious albums in David Bowie's career -- not awful, but a weird, compressed production all around, finding Bowie caught between his just-past folk days and a proto-heavy metal path. "Running Gun Blues" fuses the two impulses together as well as could be done, being both a showcase for his then-backing band -- notably the brilliant guitarist Mick Ronson -- and his own cryptic/Dylan way around lyrics. If not singing -- Bowie's high-pitched singing wasn't quite on the level of sheer squeal as Hunky Dory would soon make evident, but it's obviously theatrical and, if not forced per se, isn't anything like his more relaxed turn on "Space Oddity" just the previous year. The whole pace of the song is fairly blasé, a bit of hard rock crunch tempered in the mix that's steady enough but nowhere near as commanding as, say, Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin would be (though doubtless that wasn't the intent). The lyrics about war and the like are okay enough in a William Burroughs way, but nothing to write home about."[1]

References

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  1. ^ Running Gun Blues - David Bowie | AllMusic, retrieved 2024-08-28