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From A Buick 6

from Turn Up For The Books by Robbie McIntosh

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This is a Bob Dylan song and I remember having the single when I was a kid. I used to cover it with a pub band. It's a song about being in love with a woman who's really tough I guess, and how she'll do anything for you. It empowers women in a way and that's why I like it.

We cut that with me on guitar, Paul on drums, Steve Smith on keyboards. I overdubbed the bass and then Mark Feltham came in and put some harmonica on it. I didn't like my vocal just being a lead vocal on its own, so I got Steve and Jess in and turned it into a three-way lead vocal, which gives it a bit more power.
My old friend Mark Feltham adds some continuity to this album as he played on Emotional Bends and Wide Screen.
An extraordinary blues harmonica player, one of the world's finest! Cheers mate! x

lyrics

I got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kid
But my soulful mama, you know she keeps me hid
She’s a junkyard angel and she always gives me bread
Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.
Well, when the pipeline gets broken and I’m lost on the river bridge
I’m cracked up on the highway and on the water’s edge
She comes down the thruway ready to sew me up with thread
Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.
Well, she don’t make me nervous, she don’t talk too much
She walks like Bo Diddley and she don’t need no crutch
She keeps this four-ten all loaded with lead
Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.
Well, you know I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead
I need a dump truck mama to unload my head
She brings me everything and more, and just like I said
Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.

credits

from Turn Up For The Books, released September 7, 2013
RM: Electric Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Paul Beavis: Drums
Mark Feltham: Harmonica
Stephen Darrel Smith: Electric Piano
Jess Upton: Backing Vocals
Steve Wilson: Backing Vocal

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Robbie McIntosh Weymouth, UK

Robbie McIntosh is well known as a sideman/session player (Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, Talk Talk, Norah Jones, Tears For Fears, to name but a few)
As a solo performer and singer, he has released 8 albums:
Seaworld,
Fortuneswell,
Turn Up For The Books,
Widescreen, Emotional Bends
3 albums of instrumentals:
Unsung, Hush Hour and Christmas Carols.
Also the Let’s Put It All Together EP. ... more

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