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Never Been To Memphis
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My pal Steve Joyner wrote this song, and I just felt a strong urge to record it as a 'Memphis' groove complete w/ horns.
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Songwriter James Curley and his band, Radio Fade, perform rhythmic, rootsy Americana-tinged Folk Rock in the tradition of The Band, Little Feat, Allman Brothers
James Curley & Radio Fade perform lyrically literate original acoustic-electric classic American folk-rock in the tradition of The Band, The New Riders, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Little Feat and Little Village.
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Genre
Rock • Folk Rock
Charts
Peak #1,526
Peak in subgenre #94
Author
Steve Joyner
Rights
Steve Joyner
Uploaded
March 30, 2008
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MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:58
Story behind the song
you'd have to ask Steve....
Lyrics
Muddy river keep rollin’ down the delta way My baby packed her things; left me here today Wasn’t much I could say when we were all done She left me and my guitar down on Highway 61 Never had the kind of life where I could get to choose Never had much money when I had everything to lose Never walked a gravel road didn’t take the shine right off my shoes And I’ve never been to Memphis…..when I didn’t get the blues Walked over Beale Street from Union Avenue Stopped in with the bluesmen; said play me a song or two So many hopes have ended here; so many washed downstream That’s what you get in Memphis when you try to dream I know it’s just another stop; just another river town It’s hard to get up when you feel like you’re on the way down Look deep inside; seems like you’re yesterday’s news Catch a ride to Memphis and get yourself some blues Muddy river keeps rollin; it just goes on and on Seems the sun just starts to shine; you look and then it’s gone I say goodbye to Memphis; it’s time to take my leave Sometimes you’re passed by……by the things you can’t retrieve
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