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To: mr.mark who wrote (5736)	5/3/2000 3:15:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

Blue Guitar ~Mike Timmons, Cowboy Junkies, Miles From Home I wish I had a blue guitar, a blue guitar to play all night long. Singing songs of loss and love. Singing songs till morning comes. Ghosts in the basement screams from the kitchen I tell you folks I think I'm leaving. Seems I can already hear the door slammin' I tell you folks I think I'm leavin'. Goodbye to the highway goodbye to the sky I'm headed out goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye to the highway goodbye to the sky I'm headed out goodbye, goodbye. I wish I had a blue guitar, a blue guitar to play all night long. I wish I had a blue guitar, a blue guitar to let you know somehow you are not needed now. cowboyjunkies.com After spending a month gathering up the bits and pieces of lyrical and musical ideas that I had been collecting over the past year, I planned to start writing the new album's material up at Maiden's Mill in January of 97. On New Years Day we got the tragic news that Townes Van Zandt had died. Townes is the songwriter who has inspired me most in my adult life. His songs are what I feel great songs should aspire to be - tiny peep-holes into our souls. We had had the great honor of touring with Townes. We shared a joint with the man who had shared a joint with Lightnin Hopkins, who had shared a joint with Robert Johnson, who had shared a joint with the devil. His death was a great blow. The song Blue Guitar was written the day I heard he died. It was meant as a tribute to the man who had the bluest guitar that I had ever heard. But somehow I couldn't finish it and I put it away. A month later I came into possession of some of Townes' unpublished and unfinished lyrics. In that bunch was a lyric called Screams From The Kitchen. There was a handful of lines in the song that popped out at me (Goodbye to the highway / goodbye to the sky / I'm heading out goodbye, goodbye). With Townes' widow, Jeanene Van Zandt's approval I incorporated them into the unfinished Blue Guitar, which now stood finished. The song had been waiting for Townes to finish it off. I think that Blue Guitar is my favorite recording on the album. It is a perfect example of what John Leckie brought to the process. Lots of swirling atmosphere and a transparent denseness. - Mike cowboyjunkies.com Cowboy Junkies SPRING WALTZ 2000 in the Pacific Northwest June 12, 2000 The Aladdin Theater Portland, OR June 13, 2000 Moore Theatre Seattle, WA June 14, 2000 The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC For the rest of the tour dates: cowboyjunkies.com If you have the chance- see them.