Name: Adios To Rock'n'Roll
Duration: 3 min 50 s
Channel: Bob Leslie
Description: "Adios To Rock'n'Roll" is a song by Bob Leslie. This is an autobiographical piece of what I would call country rock. I've tried to give it a kind of Byrds/Asleep At The Wheel harmony feel.

Adios To Rock'n'Roll

Bob Leslie

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This is an autobiographical piece of what I would call country rock. I've tried to give it a kind of Byrds/Asleep At The Wheel harmony feel.

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Bob Leslie

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 #141

Peak in subgenre #15

Author

Bob Leslie

Rights

2004

Uploaded

July 05, 2010

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 3:50

Story behind the song

Just the story of my life! (With one minor fictional element included for the sake of the rhyme - I don't drive a car!)

Lyrics

Life looks sunny
And you got a little money
And you got a little honey and a car
And you play in a band
And they say you're the man
Blues shouter with a red guitar
And you know that what you do 
will make the walls come tumbling down
And you bask in the heat of the stage-lights
You're the king of your home town

Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh,
Where'd it go?
Twenty years of paying dues
And all you've got is memories of the road
And you never really made it
And those memories keep nagging at your soul
So you hung up your guitar 
And you said Adios to Rock'n'Roll

So you turn your back on Muddy
And you hurry and you study
And you find yourself back in school
Trying to climb the ladder
That you used to turn your back on
And you wonder if you've been a fool
And you know that what you do
Will never make the walls fall down
And though the kingdom that you had
Was small, you miss that crown

When life looks dark
And times are hard
And you work most every day and night
Paying for your bad breaks
Paying for your mistakes
Paying for a busted life
You pick up your old guitar
And all the walls come tumbling down
'Cause what you really needed was 
the music not the crown

 
Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh,
Where'd it go?
Twenty years of paying dues
And yes, you got your memories of the road
And if you never really made it
Well, the music's still alive there in your soul
and it's impossible to turn your back and say
Adios to Rock'n'Roll

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