The last animal song post for the moment. A final visit to the corral for a further collection of songs.
“High Horse” is a song written and recorded by American country music singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves for her fourth studio album, Golden Hour (2018). Musgraves co-wrote the song with Trent Dabbs and Tom Schleiter, and co-produced the track with Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian. It was first released as a digital promotional single in March 2018, and later impacted American radio in June, as the album’s third official single. “High Horse” reached number 36 on the US Billboard chart and also became Musgraves’s first song to crossover to pop radio, debuting and peaking at number 39 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart.
“White Horses” Low ride in on their ‘Hey What’ album with this discombobulated soundscape. The track starts off with a guitar and amp sound collage until 40 seconds in, when Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker’s voices join over flickering instrumentation. The song ends with a single note thud playing for over a minute. Lyrically, “White Horses” is about the search for transcendence and surrendering to the universe. “That song in particular cane out of therapy,” Sparhawk told Mojo magazine. “I’m always dealing with mental health stuff and there’s been some moments where I’ve come to the surface and maybe taken a deep breath and that song came out of that. Let’s try to see if there’s some sense of something rising out of the ashes.”
“The Milkman’s Horse” by the Libertines was originally uploaded to YouTube by Peter Doherty as a solo acoustic demo back in February 2015, the song now has a completely new chorus written by Carl Barat to replace the original that Doherty had borrowed from The Supremes’ “Where Did Our Love Go” and The Four Tops’ “I Can’t Help Myself.” “Songs like ‘The Milkman’s Horse’ I thought were finished,” Doherty told NME. “Then I’d give them to Carl and the pressure was on him to make them better.” “He really had to go all guns blazing, because there’s no point changing something unless you’re improving it,” he added. “He really did us proud. He gave it a whopping great chorus, better than the Supremes rip-off it had before.”
“The Horses” is a song written by Rickie Lee Jones and Walter Becker. It was originally performed by Jones on her 1989 album, Flying Cowboys. While not released as a single, the original version did appear in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire and was also included on the film’s soundtrack. The song was covered in 1990 by Daryl Braithwaite; his version reached No. 1 in Australia, and by 2022 had been certified tenfold platinum. And for this I am eternally grateful. I am sure that Rickie Lee Jones and Walter Becker could never imagine how endearing the song would and has become.
“Rocking Horse” is a song by The Dead Weather taken from their 2009 album Horehound. This song is a duet between vocalist Alison Mosshart and drummer Jack White. Mosshart told Mojo magazine July 2009 that it, “started out with just me singing and is now a duet. He just sat up one day and said, ‘I’ll do this,’ and that made it so good I was jumping up and down and hugging him.”
