This is the first Open Mic I've done since the Great Steemit Exodus. Very excited to introduce myself to this new community, although I've already seen some familiar faces here.
This week's "Four Directions" theme put me in a travelling mood. Unfortunately, I'm asthmatic and most having to stay close to home while our C-19 numbers in Nashville, TN are quite high still. It's particularly difficult not being able to share studio spaces and stages with our musical collaborators and audiences right now. I have been doing any streaming performances etc. because, frankly, it's such a pale comparison to the real thing.
That said, discovering all the energy happening here on the Hive chain has got me excited to share my music with all of you since many of us are so far away from one another this is just the same old normal for the blockchain.
This is a song about a band in a van -- a traveling tune, a road song. It's about the insomnia of working at night and travelling during the day. Red-eye gravy is a Southern recipe for frying ham or bacon in a pan and then deglazing it with a cup of black coffee before pouring it over scrambled eggs or grits.
If this song makes you hungry or makes you long for faraway faces and places, please click that upvote...
lyrics
Red-eye gravy won’t you save me
From the morning sun
This ol’ night is ending
And this new day has begun
I make my stand with a rockin’ band
In a fast van on the run
Red-eye gravy won’t you save me from
The morning sun
The show in Tuscaloosa it was looser than law
Woke up nearing Mobile to a crow out on the caw
We flew through Alabama, a quick fiddle on the draw
Made the scene in New Orleans, seen things you never saw
We went down to Memphis town when we got the blues
What a shock in Little Rock with nothing left to lose
We had to back track through Mackinac and Detroit felt like home
We spend the year shiftin gears, ramblin' on the roam
And it's one shift, two shift, three shift, four
Pull down the shade and lock up the door
Yellow light, red light, green light too
I’d drive all night to get home to you
(Oh you know its true)
In that City of Angels I swear we found a few
We got lost in Vegas where we found the devil too
From heaven to hell and back again, big city and little town
We raise a glass to each place we pass then put that hammer down’
Welcome to Hive Open Mic. You're starting strong with this cool Americana-style traveling song. I like the energy you're bringing, thank you. I hadn't heard the "red-eye gravy" expression before, so I'm glad to see your storytelling in the article, further adding to the entertainment value. Reminds me of Steve Earle, and I can almost hear a jam band variation of this song, with the Grateful Dead vibe.
Thanks, Cabe! Happy to be joining y'all here. I've just been slowly onboarding to the Hive space but it already seems like it has a lot more integrity than Steemit. A very positive move. I'll be hanging in the Open Mic more often now that I'm up to speed again. Expect more originals, but I'm also hoping to up my production a bit. I moved into a new place just before the pandemic and my music space is still sort of a mess while I'm getting it all set up more permanently.