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<p>Another Silva Special</p><p><br></p><ul><li>"Texas Radio" refers to high power Mexican radio stations that blasted into Texas in the 1950s. </li><li>Not restricted by American regulations these stations, whose call letters started with X, could have up to 150,000 watts. </li><li>Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek both heard&nbsp;<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/have-mercy-its-wolfman-jack" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Wolfman Jack</a>&nbsp;on one.</li><li><br></li><li>This is a spoken word piece of Jim Morrison's poetry accompanied by John Densmore's drums. </li><li>Morrison wrote the lyrics years before this was recorded, and used to perform it as a poem.</li><li>The verse, "Comes out of the Virginia swamps cool and slow with plenty of precision with a back beat narrow and hard to master" is most likely a reference to Morrison's first real experience with the music scene. </li><li><br></li><li>From 1958 to 1960 Morrison lived in Alexandria, Virginia and frequented the Juke Joints (blues clubs) on Route 1 just north of Fort Belvoir where Black Blues musicians would play on Friday and Saturday nights. </li><li>That area where the Juke Joints used to be is right on the eastern edge of a swamp.</li><li>I</li><li>n 1968, the lyrics were published in a Doors souvenir book.</li><li>Morrison's vocal was double-tracked to make it stand out.</li><li>The phrase "Stoned Immaculate" came from a lyric in this song: "Out here we is stoned immaculate." </li><li>That phrase became the title for a 2000 Doors tribute album </li></ul><p><br></p>