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"Always on My Mind" was not completed until late 1971. Songwriter-guitarist Wayne Carson had about two verses done with the working title "You Were Always on My Mind". [2] He had been occupied in Memphis on a project that required him to stay ten days longer, and he phoned his wife in Springfield, Missouri, to apologize for the delay. She was ...
Finn was in love with a female classmate, Holly, who invited him over, only to have her and her friend drench him with a hose; humiliated, he rode home on his bicycle. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The song was musically inspired by The Cure song " The Love Cats " (as was " I Miss You "), [ 3 ] and the band decided to reach out to The Cure frontman Robert Smith ...
A decade after "Always on My Mind" was released, Willie Nelson covered it and made the song a huge hit. James won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Grammy Award for Best Country Song for Nelson's version. [14] In 1987 the UK's Pet Shop Boys released a version
Fuzz morphed into a short-lived group called 60 Wrong Sausages, which featured Finn on bass and another friend of Finn’s, Jason Cropper, on guitar. The band played a single gig in November 1991 ...
Finn grew up in Westwood, Massachusetts, and began playing guitar at the age of six. He later became a student at Berklee. He later became a student at Berklee. When he was 14 years old he played with the group Cheap Thrills, which consisted of Finn, Steve Carro (Vocals), Bob Shain (Keyboard), Ron Dupres (Bass), Joel Sklar (Rhythm Guitar), and ...
In 2003, Minnesota-raised singer, writer, and guitarist Craig Finn and New York City bartender and bassist Galen Polivka began talking about starting a band. Finn and lead guitarist Tad Kubler (both formerly of Lifter Puller) developed the idea of The Hold Steady when, while watching The Band concert film The Last Waltz, Finn asked Kubler, "Dude, why aren't there any bands like this anymore?"
The lyrics, written by Mercer, are reminiscent of his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, including its waterways. As a child, he had picked huckleberries in summer, and he connected them with a carefree childhood and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. [4] Mercer's original title for the song was "Blue River", reflecting the color of huckleberries. [10]
The four thought it was a perfect name for them because they were always on the road and all four had the image of being outlaws in country music. [ 4 ] In the Highwaymen's version of the song, each of the four verses was sung by a different performer: first Nelson as the highwayman, then Kristofferson as the sailor, then Jennings as the dam ...