John aka Josh wrote:LMG wrote:I got this album in 1975, for my fourteenth birthday. I remember haw sad I was that great shows like these happened in the word, and there I was stuck in dull old Knoxville, Tennessee.
In fact, part of Yessongs was recorded in Knoxville, including this tune!
I howled with laughter when I learned that!
Knoxville - isn't there a famous bridge there, connected to suicides and recorded in country songs?
Maybe:
"The Henley Bridge is mentioned in three novels by author Cormac McCarthy. In The Orchard Keeper (1968), a bootlegger's car breaks down on the bridge. In Suttree (1979), a homeless man known as "The Ragpicker" lives under the south end of the bridge. In The Road (2006), the Henley Bridge is the "high concrete bridge" the father and son cross near the beginning of the novel en route to the Great Smoky Mountains to the south."
My mother was friends with Cormac's first wife when they lived in Knoxville, and she often told me he and I would talk a lot when he came along for visits because we were both bored by proceedings.
But of course I have no memory of this because I was seven.
My sister once asked me if I ever thought I might be the boy the kid in The Road is based on, which gave me a chill.