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Midnight Mississippi

by Los Unusual Suspects

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AM radio signals crept in through the wires while we recorded these songs . . . these ghosts from the airwaves seemed to fit somehow, so we left them in.

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Midnight, Mississippi © 2007 R. Malcolm

Midnight, Mississippi, somewhere south of Rosedale
deep down in the Delta where the cotton still gins
Midnight, Mississippi / Highway 49
the road snakes through from where the stories began

[chorus:] you feel it all around you, but when you turn to look, it’s gone
still you feel it breathing in your ear / hear it whispering
the way it’s callin' me, there ain’t no way to make Memphis
no way to make Memphis by morning

mists of Mississippi roll up from Pontchartrain
they dance in the headlights and up where lightning burns
they crackle through the radio / tangle up the vines
disappear in daylight but they always will return

[chorus]

Mississippi steam rolls down from the porches
seeking to escape some antebellum ruin
it hangs in the cypress / a faded, ragged flag
rises by the riverside and shimmers with the moon

[chorus]

mists of Mississippi / night-blooming dreams
rise from the graveyards and ’round every bend
can’t keep ’em in no bottle / can’t drown ’em with no whiskey
but a bottleneck on steel bound to call them up again

[chorus:] you feel it all around you, but when you turn to look, it’s gone
still, you feel it breathing in your ear, hear it talkin' to you
the way it’s callin' me, there ain’t no way to make Memphis
no way to make Memphis by morning

the way it’s callin' me, there just ain’t no way to make Memphis
no way to make Memphis by morning

credits

released April 6, 2013
Bass: Dangerous Dave Dixon (aka "El Doctor")
Guitar: Chris "El Cabron" Chavez
Guitar: Mike "Slick" Skelly
Harp, Vox, Guitar: Jon Deaux

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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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