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Trust Us --- 1979

Includes lyric/photo insert. Red labels, similar to [r4510669] which has blue labels. The blue labels have "Stranded In The Sixties" The red label version shows the track listing for "On The Bayou" These copies were supposed to be destroyed under an agreement with Acuff-Rose Music., https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1999-12-10/75011/ "However, the original pressing of 1979's Trust Us contained "On the Bayou," their send-up of Hank Williams' "Jambalaya" about the drowning/murder of Mexican national Jose Campos Torres by a few Houston policemen. "Goodbye Joe, you gotta go, off the bayou" and the gleeful "police" chorus of, "son of a gun, gonna have good fun" didn't amuse Williams' publisher, Acuff-Rose Music. The Nashville company slapped a cease-and-desist order on the Savages, who agreed to scrap the recording on the advice of drummer/attorney Pat Hargadon. "We had to re-press the whole album and put "Stranded in the Sixties' in place of "On the Bayou,'" sighs Awn with regret. "We took the albums, slit the shrink wrap, took out the old records, put the new ones in, shrink-wrapped 'em back up. I remember sitting around doing it to 1,000 records. "On the Bayou' was our most popular song of 1979." In true Savage style, they turned it into an event. Part of the band's agreement with Acuff-Rose was that the albums be destroyed, so naturally, a record-burning party was born. A trash barrel was hauled into the parking lot of Soap Creek II in North Austin and filled with vinyl albums, only a few of which were actual Savage pressings."