Song picture
Only Standing Room Tonight To Hear Joe Durkin
Like
Playlist
Comment Share
License   $0.00
Free download
This is in remembrance of a friend and brilliant musician who died recently.
rock songwriter harmony soul country americana singersongwriter melody alt country rhythm sahb alex harvey
Creative Commons license
Commercial uses of this track are NOT allowed.
Adaptations of this track are NOT allowed to be shared.
You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the artist.
Artist picture
Multi-talented Scottish singer-songwriter performs his own take on Americana. Original tunes with beautiful guitar work: laugh with Her Father Called Me Franken
Bob Leslie is the unknown soldier of the Scottish songwriting scene. Out of full-time professional action for fifteen years (due to family commitments), he never stopped writing and has recently returned with a 12-song CD of self-penned Americana with a touch of Tom Waits about it. In A Different World (release August 2010) employs top musical talent from the Central Scotland scene: Bernadette Collier & Alice Leslie - backing vox; Fraser Speirs - harmonica; Jim Keilt - lead guitar, Alex Mack - banjo, mandolin, and lead guitar; Craig Nelson - alto sax; and Carl Esprit Bridgeman - bass guitar. Apple, Chrysalis Records, and the Kinks' managers showed interest in Bob's early work and his later songs have elicited high commendation from the the prestigious Billboard Song Contest. Top players Bob has worked with include: Andy Hamilton (sax player for multi-million-selling Canadian songwriter Corey Hart) Chris Glen and Ted McKenna (bass and drums, respectively, with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) Colin Bass (bass player of seminal prog-rockers Camel) Dave Vasco (guitarist for Warner Brothers artists Clancy) Fraser Speirs (harmonica maestro with Paolo Nutini and Scots blues legend Tam White) Jim Keilt (virtuoso lead guitarist with John Otway and the London production of Tommy - the Musical) Kathy O'Donoghue (vocalist with, amongst others, Roger Chapman and Hank Wangford) Zeke Manyika (drummer for Scots chart-toppers Orange Juice)
Song Info
Genre
Country • Alternative Country
Charts
Peak #133
Peak in subgenre #27
Author
Bob Leslie
Rights
2004
Uploaded
August 17, 2004
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Joe was a great guitarist - brilliant driving bottleneck blues one minute and sensitive lyrical melody the next. He had a great wake - a hotel lounge full of drunken musicians all trying to do credit to Joe's memory. He would have loved it.
Lyrics
We mourned you in the morning Celebrated you at night Said farewell to you, our brother, And we tried to do it right And a choir of drunken angels Sang you onto your last flight And we drank a lake of kindness in your memory Hey, Joe, where’d you go With your guitar in your hand Are you trading licks with Lowell George In some celestial band? In that bar that never closes Where the music never ends It’s only standing room tonight to hear Joe Durkin You sang tunes by Woody Guthrie Bukka White and Lowell too But you always made them sound as if They wrote them just for you Ah, your slide guitar was angry But you picked so sweet and blue That the walls would weep to hear such beauty sounding I remember the last time, Joe, That you sang “Fixin’ To Die” And a shiver ran right through me And I really don’t know why I recall your last farewell to us, Your usual goodbye, “Thank you, my friends, for coming here tonight”
On Playlists
Comments
Please sign up or log in to post a comment.