Take Me Back to Memphis

from Waiting For Rain by Bruce Coughlan

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TAKE ME BACK TO MEMPHIS

Standing by the roadside
Without a suitcase in my hand
Along by the roadside
Without a suitcase in my hand
All I have’s this old guitar
And the shirt on my back

I’m leaving out of Nashville
And I’ve got those Highway 40 blues
Leaving out of Nashville
I’ve got those Highway 40 blues
Not a penny in my pocket
And I’ve got holes in both my shoes (yes I do)

Freightliners whining by like an old steel guitar
No matter where you go, it’s just the place that you are
Oh, I’m going back to Memphis
Take me to back Memphis

I thought I’d go to Tupelo
Thought I might go to Muscle Shoals
I thought I’d go to Tupelo
Thought I might go to Muscle Shoals
But I’m going back to Memphis, going to satisfy my soul

Freightliners whining by like an old steel guitar
No matter where you go, it’s just the place that you are
Oh, I’m going back to Memphis
Take me to back Memphis, that’s the place for me
Take me to back Memphis
Mmmm, Memphis Tennessee

credits

from Waiting For Rain, released June 1, 2017
Bruce Coughlan: lead vocals & classical guitar

Simon Kendall: Wurlitzer, Hammond, Clavinet/Pianet, Steinway & thumbtack piano

Joby Baker: kit, congas & shaker

Rob Becker: upright bass (except Back of My Mind – Laurence Knight: upright bass)

Paul Pigat: Gretsch guitar on Take Me Back to Memphis and Yesterday’s News

The Sojourners (Marcus Mosley, Will Sanders & Khari McClelland): support vocals on Lean Times, Waiting for Rain and Peace, Love & Understanding.



Produced by Joby Baker

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Joby Baker at Baker Studios, Victoria, BC Additional direction & recording by Simon Kendall at Hammond St Studio, Vancouver, BC



Photography and design by Fred Armstrong

Warm thanks to all my extraordinary friends & family who continue to prop me up, help me along and keep me going. Thank-you to all the artists who lent their prodigious talents to this recording. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported the Waiting for Rain Indiegogo initiative, and to Brigitte Bach Seib & Friends for hosting a fundraising concert. Thank-you all for making this dream project possible. – Bruce Coughlan



P&C Bruce Coughlan Music / Raincoast Records 2017 All rights reserved. All songs registered / Warning: Unauthorized reproduction if this recording is prohibited by Federal law and subject to prosecution / Raincoast Records / www.songsmith.ca / Made in Canada

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Pacific Canadian-based recording & performing artist, Bruce Coughlan has spent decades making Acoustic Roots Music Music of all descriptions. An expressive singer and rock-solid guitarist, Bruce is driven by one guiding principle: It's all about the Song. ... more

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