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Memphis Blues (revisited)

by Los Unusual Suspects

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This is a 2017 studio recording—a follow-up to the earlier live version—featuring the addition of Carli Marshall on sax.
The story is still true. The blues still abides.

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She packed her bags on Wednesday / never said which way she's goin' ...
one thing I know for certain: she ain't never goin' home

Friday night, the phone rang / same number came up both times...
them calls came in from Memphis; wasn't no one on that line

Saturday I was sweatin'; up all night, I couldn't chill...
I finally called the healer; he said just one thing could cure my ill

He said 'that silence in the phone line—brother, it's got you on the run'...
'you gonna have to find that ghost somewhere down highway 61'

I packed my bags this mornin'; friends said 'that ain't no way to be'...
anyone lookin' for me, just say I went to Tennessee

I went to Tennessee
Went to Memphis, Tennessee
Just tell 'em I'm gone
Down highway 61
Color me gone
Down highway 61
Gone to Memphis, Tennessee . . .

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released September 1, 2017
Carli "Justice" Marshall: Saxophones
Mike "Slick"Skelly: Guitar
"Dangerous" Dave Dixon, aka El Doctor. Bass
Jon Deaux, aka Richard Malcolm. Blues harp, guitar, voice

Song/lyrics by Richard Malcolm

Recorded, engineered, and mastered by Doug Bellen at Iron Street (Albuquerque)

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Los Unusual Suspects Albuquerque, New Mexico

Some say the conspiracy got underway in the International District in 2010.
Others say it formed in the mists above the Mississippi River, where Route 66 crosses over, then rolled downriver through Memphis, across the Delta and the Mississippi hill country, into New Orleans and the Gulf, and then made its way back up the Rio Grande valley. ... more

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