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26 Mar 17 - 08:48 AM (#3846745) Subject: Lyrics to 'Bound Steel Blues' From: GUEST,jeremyhanley Hi Mudcats, I'm a musician who wants to record a version of Bill Shepherd's 'Bound Steel Blues', which I have on Yazoo CD "The Music of Kentucky" vol. 2. Can anyone help me with the lyrics; it's a very rare record apparently, and the Yazoo version is scratchy and indecipherable in parts. Thank you |
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26 Mar 17 - 12:22 PM (#3846776) Subject: RE: Lyrics to 'Bound Steel Blues' From: GUEST,MVS Mike Seeger recorded this on his "Third Farewell Reunion" album, backed by the NLCR. His reading sounds pretty dead-on to me. He doesn't include the second verse, which is the only hard part of the song. That portion sounds a lot more worn than the rest of the surface of the only known surviving copy of the 78, as if the owner kept playing that verse over and over with a fuzzy needle. The other lyrics are conventional enough blues phrases that you know where it's going as soon as you get part of the verse, but all I can make out on that stanza is "you and I," concluding the first and second lines. The rest is just a mumble to my ear. |