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After The Money From Mama Was Gone

from Cowboy Angel & The Lost American Life by Bob Reuter

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This was gonna be the title of Kamikaze Cowboy's second album but we went with "Down In America" instead. I was working in a photo lab at the time and as I was passing through the lab one night I heard this Black woman I worked with, a postal clerk friend of mine, telling somebody, "...and then after the money from mama was gone..." and I just thought, "That's one of the saddest most profound lines I've ever heard!" The song just about wrote itself after that line!

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from Cowboy Angel & The Lost American Life, released April 10, 2012

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Bob Reuter St Louis, Missouri

Bob Reuter was seminal in laying the groundwork for St. Louis' underground rock & roll scene as well as the alt-country boom of the early 90s. Bob was also a radio DJ (Bob's Scratchy Records, KDHX), a photographer, and a writer. Bob died in an accident in 2013. ... more

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