Anyone familiar with country music in the Pacific Northwest knows that the biggest, strongest, wildest and best country band in the region and perhaps the entire West Coast, is Gary Bennett and the Coattail Riders. You can get a load of their gigantic talents in the two Americana classics that I’ve included here. These songs are about the things which made this nation powerful: love, marriage, booze, back country nature, and commerce. “Reese’s Old Store” is a sentimental homage to simpler times, brothers having fun together, and the husband and wife who ran the local store through thick and thin. “Ballad of Harry and Helen” is a rocky top love story about the mighty Harry Truman and the snow-capped love of this life. This Harry Truman never became President, instead he ran a “sportsmen’s paradise” hunting lodge with a lot of cats near Spirit Lake on Mount St. Helens in the great state of Washington. Nothing could move Harry Truman off that everlovin’ mountain, not even the threat of a mighty volcano.
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