Tuesday, July 15, 2008

When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again

From the album "Roadhouse"
Zoomer Roberts: vocals
Buddy Winston: guitars
Eric Hutson: Drums

Buddy Winston and I spent the latter half of the 1990s recording some of my favorite songs in his home studio. The eventual result was an album I named "Roadhouse" because Eric's drum rolls on some of the songs reminded me of Saturday nights in a honky-tonk. One of the songs I wanted to do was this old Wiley & Gene classic. We did it without a bass because it sounded good the way it was. The ending is a nod to Elvis Presley's 1956 version: I multi-tracked myself going from IV to I on the final "stay" a la the Jordanaires. It's like an "Amen" with different lyrics. The guitar intro was lifted from "Little Lover" by Gene Vincent. The rest of it is just us being ourselves.