#MainStreet January 4
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For January 2025, several of us are taking part in the 30-Day Song Lyrics Coach4aday Challenge. Each day we utilize a theme and post the SONG LYRICS from a song that connects the two. Today my theme is on a road, highway, or street and my song is MAIN STREET.
I am fortunate to have a number of clients that give me the opportunity to travel to different parts of the country. One trip to Florence Alabama had me staying at the Shoals Marriott Hotel which has a bar called Swampers Bar and Grill that is packed with music memorabilia from either Fame Studios or Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. In that establishment I learned that Bob Seger wrote and recorded the song Main Street at Muscle Sholas Sound Studio.
The MSSS studio was owned by four of the guys who played on the track Main Street: David Hood (bass), Jimmy Johnson (rhythm guitar), Roger Hawkins (drums) and Barry Beckett (keyboards). The lead guitarist on the session was Pete Carr. That group sometimes gets referred to as the Muscle Shoals Rythm Section but to many they were known as The Swampers.
Not to get off the subject but “The Swampers” are mentioned in the song “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynard Skynard. Those lyrics go like this
Now Muscle Shoals has got The Swampers,
And they’ve been known to pick a song or two, (yes they do)
Lord they get me off so much,
They pick me up when I’m feeling blue, now how bout you?
Lyrics to Main Street
I remember standing on the corner at midnight
Trying to get my courage up
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown
Loved to watch her do her stuff
Through the long lonely nights, she filled my sleep
Her body softly swaying to that smoky beat
Down on Mainstreet
Down on Mainstreet
In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losers
Used to watch ’em through the glass
Well, I’d stand outside at closing time
Just to watch her walk on past
Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet
As she made her way alone down that empty street
Down on Mainstreet
Down on Mainstreet
Sometimes even now, when I’m feeling lonely and beat
I drift back in time and I find my feet
Down on Mainstreet
Down on Mainstreet
Down on Mainstreet
Down on Mainstreet
Down on Mainstreet
Down on Mainstreet
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