“Rocky Mountain Way” by Joe Walsh

"Rocky Mountain Way" came off Joe Walsh's 1973 album The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get, cut with his band Barnstorm, and all four of them share the writing credit: Walsh, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli and Joe Vitale. It's a slow, swaggering rock grind that walks like a man in no hurry, with Vitale thumping the drums, Passarelli on bass and Walsh's guitar doing all the talking. Bill Szymczyk produced it with Walsh.

Walsh has said the words came to him in 1972, while he was mowing the lawn in Colorado and looked up to see summer snow on the Front Range, and decided the move beat anything he'd had with the James Gang. He has told it another way too, saying he wrote them at Caribou Ranch while making the album.

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