"Livin' for the City" is a story-song with a stomping beat
these songs are not actually taken from Garland's films
His moving renditions of "Frankie" and "Spike Driver Blues" were included in Harry Smith's American Anthology of Folk Music in 1952 and were vitally influential on the Greenwich Village folk music revival of the 1960s as well as John Fahey's development of the American Primitive Guitar genre
Gabe Barham (drums)
GET CLOSE 09/27/2011 "Livin' for the City" isThe Pretenders: Chrissie Hynde (vocals, guitar); Robbie McIntosh (guitar); T. M. Stevens (bass); Blair Cunningham (drums). Additional personnel: Shankar (violin); Pat Seymour, Bernie Worrell, Wix, Bruce Brody, Tommy Mandel, Rupert Black (keyboards); Bruce Thomas, T. M. Stevens, Chucho Merchan, John McKenzie, Malcolm Foster (bass); Martin Chambers, Simon Phillips, Mel Gaynor (drums); Steve Jordon (drums, percussion); Carlos Alomar (percussion,