Post-GD Robert Hunter Songs

From Wikipedia.  I listened to the Jim Lauderdale album a few times.  It didn't stick in my rotation.  Couldn't tell you why.  Could have been bad timing.  I should give it another spin.  I like Mickey's cd's and put them all on from time to time.  Fun stuff.  Admittedly, none of my listening was deep enough to comment on the lyrics.

 

Hunter wrote "Cyclone" for Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers' Levitate album, released in 2009. Bruce Hornsby said about "Cyclone" in a recent interview:[7]

Mike Ragogna: "Cyclone" gets more philosophical, especially with lines like, "I've got no answers of my own, and none have been provided."

Bruce Hornsby: You know those are Robert Hunter's lyrics with a couple of additions from me.

Bruce Hornsby commented on his work for Levitate ("Cyclone") at Express Night Out website[8] (a Washington Post Company): "Well, I've always loved [Robert Hunter's] writing. I've loved so many of the Garcia/Hunter songs. They're just timeless sounding to me, could have been written hundreds of years ago. I had this song that had the same feeling as, say, 'Brokedown Palace'."

In 2010 Robert co-wrote Patchwork River with Jim Lauderdale. The album was released on the Thirty Tigers Label. Also in 2010 Robert Hunter with Cesar Rosas co-wrote the song "All My Bridges Burning" for Los Lobos' album Tin Can Trust. In 2010, Hunter also wrote lyrics for 7 Walkers' debut album including "Louisiana Rain," "Chingo," and "Sue From Bogalusa." In 2012 Hunter co-wrote lyics for the Mickey Hart Band's albums, Mysterium Tremendum and the follow-up, Superorganism. In an interview with American Songwriter, Hart categorizes Hunter's lyrics compared to other great lyricists saying, "When you're in a situation in the future and you can't explain it, very often a Hunter line or two or three will explain something that's unexplainable."[9] Also in 2012, Hunter co-wrote four songs on Little Feat's album Rooster Rag.

Hunter wrote some lyrics for Zero in the mid-90s.

I decided to just search out his inventory...  

....  wow ....

(I mean, wholly trucking bits did he write some songs, I think I counted 19 that started with the letter "A" alone)

http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_RHSongs.htm

Together Through Life - Bob Dylan

Hunter co-wrote the whole album except for one song.

WHERE I COME FROM

(ROBERT HUNTER, DAVID NELSON)

Where I come from 
You can read by the light of a star
Pass the map Mahoney
It can’t be all that far
I would know it anywhere
Sight unseen we’re almost there
This smells like the air
Where I come from

Where I come from
All the roads are rocky and steep
And you aren’t judged by
The company you keep
I would know you anywhere 
Salt-sea breezes in your hair 
No one to compare 
Where I come from

Where I come from 
Smack on the demarcator line
If the sun don’t rise, y’know
Won’t be for lack of tryin’
Fed-up rehearsing my part
Gonna wing this one from the heart
Only place to start
Where I come from

Where I come from
Used to be a border state
Nothin’ but my own reflection
On the dinner plate
Tonight I choose to dine alone
Me and the dog might share a bone
We don’t waste a crumb
Where I come from

Rock-n-Roll Blues

Sunshine pouring all over the place
Lighting up the smile on your sweet face
All I'm asking is a little bit more
Shaking that river like there ain't no shore
I was born about an hour ago
Seems like forever but I don't know
Give it up for love so I've been told
It seldom gets younger but it never grows old

Whatever you need is whatever you got
Twenty to life or another shot
Eviction notice or a permanent pass
Where the rolling sky meets the mountain grass
Rusty roses and the lilies are red
Dust bugs hanging out under the bed
Gods in his heaven, it's like I said
Without our love we might as well be dead

Most of the time finds me hanging around
Like an unwanted object in the lost and found
A long lost stranger on the middle ground
A CC rider on the outward bound
Rock-n-roll blues, Rock-n-roll blues
Slapping your face, and kicking the bruise
Breaking your arm, shaking your hand
Like some poor devil in a rock-and-roll band

Sweating the small stuff or painting it large
You got to give value for what you charge
You might be skating on mighty thin ice
But I didn't come here to give you advice
I come to whistle and to strum my guitar
Sing for my supper and to drive my car
To love my woman for all I'm worth
To give full measure for my days on earth

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Phil Lesh

Together Through Life is fantastic. I wasn't really into the Jim Lauderdale record, I think the songs were decent but I was not into Mr. Lauderdale's singing, it sounds like they just found some guy eating breakfast at a Hardee's outside Nashville and got him to sing on the entire record

"45th of November" - String Cheese Incident (Robert Hunter / Kyle Hollingsworth)

https://archive.org/details/sci2016-01-01.akg391.kindrec

Track #4

(As an aside: "100 Year Flood" is worth a listen). 

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=35900

This song was written by String Cheese Incident keyboard player Kyle Hollingsworth, with a lyric from longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. The song is a surreal look at the significance of life, asking us to imagine a date and time that don't seem to exist (26:10 on November 45th).

In our interview with Kyle Hollingsworth, he explained that he and Hunter worked on the song through email. Hollingsworth sent over some tracks, and Hunter picked one and wrote the lyric. When Hollingsworth suggested some changes, Hunter told him to leave it exactly as written, earning the respect of the SCI keyboard man. "It was amazing to work with such a great writer," Hollingsworth said. "A lyricist that knows what he wants."

Ghost Train Blues 

Hunter wrote the lyrics to most of these Mickey Hart tunes. Pretty good material, imo:

https://www.allmusic.com/album/mysterium-tremendum-mw0002345758