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“It was here that I lost you, so here I'll remember, and I'll just keep driving all night. ...til I get it right.”

395 is a highway I know well. It connects greater Los Angeles to the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. As such, it connects me to my happy place (one of them at least). Ironic then that it would be the setting for such a sad song.

Gothic Americana? I guess that's the correct genre for a song that tells the story of not wanting to forget the death of one’s spouse for which the writer feels responsibility.

“It's a long, lonesome drive”, indeed.

Finding Tony Prior to play pedal steel on this record was a gift from God. Pedal steel, violin, and cello are the melancholy trifecta, and I can’t imagine this record sounding right without those instruments in the hands of real musicians who know how to wring tears out of their strings.

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395

That day in September we stopped on the road
I picked up some souvenir stones
You laughed at me and said, “Babe in your head
You got enough of your own”
Now it’s rocks on the table, and rocks on my shelf
Got rocks in the bed of my truck
But I’m all outta luck

Three ninety five
It’s a long, lone - some drive
The new sun on the mountains is making me drowsy
But I don’t wanna sleep without you

You fell asleep on the passenger side
Your pretty bare feet on the dash
Willie was singing a song, I remember
I wanted that moment to last
So I held a picture of you in that moment
As bright moonlight shined in your hair
And I can still feel you there

It was here that I lost you, so here I’ll remember
And I’ll just keep driving all night
Until I make it right

© Mark Edward Duvall/shirtsleevemusicgroup

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from Porch Stories, released February 1, 2018
with Tony Prior on pedal steel, and Ray Allen on backing vocals

Tim Edmondson: drums
Andrew Bacon: stand up bass
Mark Edward Duvall: vocals acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica

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Americana, singer-songwriter, storyteller, folk, alt-country

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