The story likewise touched Marty Jones, a Denver artist and longtime Westword factor, who simply launched a ballad entitled “Smokey the Coors Field Cat” that makes sure to yank on listeners’ classic heartstrings.
“A couple of months into the pandemic. I got identified with cancer of the tongue,” Jones says. “I said…my go back to the studio would be a really essential tune — and it has to do with a roaming cat. This is really the very first time I’ve remained in a studio and tape-recorded music in about 3 years; my singing voice has actually lastly returned.
“It’s the very first time in my life that I’ve gotten a concept for a tune, composed the tune and had it tape-recorded by the end of the day,” he includes.
“He’s sort of a regional celeb; he’s been there for about 10 years,” Jones says. “So when I check out the story, it sort of bummed me out, honestly. Poor person’s time has actually addressed the arena and they’re searching for a home, and he went from having all this space to, well, they’re expecting someplace that would a minimum of have a ‘catio’ where he can get outside, smell the breeze. It’s a fantastic fate, however it’s likewise bittersweet.”
Marty Jones could not withstand going back to music with a tune about Smokey the Coors Field cat. .
Courtesy Marty Jones
Smokey likewise advised Jones, who relocated to Denver from Norfolk, Virginia, with his spouse back in 1995, of a cat the couple as soon as had. “One of our preferred animals of perpetuity was a black cat that we embraced as a kitten who was hanging out behind the club where my band was playing,” Jones remembers. “He lived to be nineteen, and we even relocated to Colorado with him, and he was the best animal worldwide. His name was Willie Dixon, and he would play catch with a bottle cap; he’d go 8 feet away, you’d toss it, he’d capture it and bring it back to you and walk back for you to toss it once again.”
With the love of cats in mind, Jones’s tune is distinguished the viewpoint of Smokey, who is concerning the awareness that he should retire. It’s the kind of Americana campfire tune that is similar to Bob Dylan while likewise offering a laugh (and possibly a teary eye) for those who followed Smokey on Twitter.
And Smokey required to Twitter again to share Jones’s tune, keeping in mind that half of the earnings from the $1 to purchase the tune will go to Animal Rescue of the Rockies.
“Smokey the Coors Field Cat” is available on Jones’s website and bandcamp.
