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Introduction to our opera with Narration lead-in by the author.

The Bob Marley classic I Shot the Sheriff is rearranged in a western style and sung in Kaufman’s bass-baritone. Musical nods to Jamaica are made subtly with the harmonica and bass playing. A tasty mandolin work by Tim Connell give the track (and the entire album) a signature sound and feel.

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Take a listen and I’ll spin you a tale. It’s a story as old as the old west itself... of betrayal, murder, and greed but set in modern day Oregon. If you can, conjure up in your own mind an image of The Rogue Valley and the rest of Southern Oregon, What do you see?
Farms, Orchards, and vineyards tucked in between foothills of madrone and evergreen trees. Or did you imagine wide open spaces in the high desert with snow-capped mountains in the distance. Just like something in a Western movie? Or... did you see the Pacific Ocean crashing her waves along forested cliffs.. Well, if you imagined any of that or any of the wild streams that connect it all together you have a vision of southern Oregon. And you can also see what stands in the way of a fossil fuel pipeline project being promoted by Gas Corps. Now there’s many folks opposed to this but our story revolves around one man, Cliff West & several folks who were once his friends, including the sheriff.
Another little thing about this story... it answers the long wondered question: who shot the deputy?



I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy

All around in my hometown
They're tryin' to track me down
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy
For the life of a deputy, but I say

I shot the sheriff
But I swear it was in self defense
Yeah, I say, I shot the sheriff and they say it is a capital offense

Sheriff John Brown always hated me
For what, I don't know
Every time I plant a seed
He said kill it before it grow
He said kill them before they grow, and so

Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah
All of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown
Aiming to gun me down
So I shot, I shot, I shot him down

Chorus

Reflexes had got the better of me
And what is to be must be
Every day the bucket a-go a well
One day the bottom a-go drop out
One day the bottom a-go drop out,

If I am guilty I will pay

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from The Complete Requiem for the Rogue - A Modern Western Opera, released August 3, 2019
Composed by Bob Marley
Originally Recorded by Bob Marley and The Wailers
Produced for Requiem for the Rogue by Dan Kaufman
Engineered and co-produced by Pyata Penedo
Bass, Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals, Narration: Dan Kaufman
Drums: David Nuding
Mandolin: Tim Connell
Percussion, Vocals, Congas, Guitar: Pyata Penedo

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The Dan Kaufman Band Portland, Oregon

Dan Kaufman uses his baritone voice, rhythm guitar, and harmonica to deliver western-style rock with a message.

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