Everyone, every name, mentioned in this song is a real person from Michael's life. Classic-sounding Americana rock. Instrumentation includes piano, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, accordion, mandolin, bass and drums
lyrics
11th Hour
Crazy Sam, Wild Bill Hurricane
Buffalo Dakota, Baltimore Jane
Big Joe Gaucho, Lucky Louie Fingers
Cherry Nose, Lips, and street-corner singers
Lazy Bill Jr., Crafty, Me and You,
Giant Alouicious, Maniac and Fool,
Isabel fashion going through a sex change,
Evil eye Jezebel, shadow on a red range
Chorus:
Yesterday is here tomorrow,
hold on to your life
in the 11th Hour
of the 97th Night
Cocaine Mickey, Leo Valdez Kelly,
Benny the Fence, Cabawon, Spoonjelly,
Little Joe Cherokee, Frenchy, Shorty Hook,
Swalindini, Irish Jimmy, Theodore the Crook,
Chorus:
Wishart, Spoolie, Peneluna, Juan Don,
Bangu, Dr. Hatch, Unibuni, Big John,
Kayo, Hammer, Goodie, Frank the Blade,
Playing ringolevio, and I'm the Ace of Spades
Guino, Bullet, Zandu, Jango
Marilyn the Bitch, and Little Tony Tango,
Crazy Legs, Guts, Wild Rod the Zipper
Blind Potato Pete the storytelling skipper
Chorus:
credits
from Healing Waters,
released September 4, 2014
Michael - piano and lead vocal
Bill Flores - pedal steel and accordion
Bear - baritone guitar, bass guitar, background vocal
Tompeet - drums and background vocal
From his beginnings as a songwriter working out of Detroit’s famed United Sound Studios, to his recordings with the Muscle
Shoals Rhythm Section, to the progressive jazz of Prismatic, to the years in L.A. and Nashville, making records with Stephen Stills, and Joe Vitale, to the nonstop touring, Michael On Fire has been relentless in his commitment to creative expression and musical performance....more
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