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Dance Card Vol. 213/04/0316:06Page 3Dance CardVol. 2a field guide to works, 1962-2002JOHN GOSSAGE

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Dance Card Vol. 213/04/0316:07Page 7Sixteen Coaches LongThere are three versions of the song “Mystery Train” that I have cometo care about. The first is by Junior Parker who wrote the song, it is slower than what came later, having the speed of a train slowly moving froma station. It is almost languid in it’s pace and vocals. The next and mostfamous rendition is by Elvis, it is much faster,driven by the Scotty Mooreguitar riff that fuels all later versions. As Elvis got older and more substance dependent the song got faster and faster. James Burton providedthe guitar, pushing the main riff past anything previous, with speed andtechnique, to about 60 or 70 mph with no station in sight. This is theway of playing this song that I learned from my guitar teacher DannyGatton in 1969. The only other serious reworking of “Mystery Train”was the one “The Band” put out on one their albums. Resting somewhere between the original and Presley’s, with Levon Helm singing thevocals and Robbie Robertson providing the guitar. Robertson also wrotesome additional words and added additional stanzas, twisting the songconsiderably but still keeping the feel.Now when I play the song (which is rarely) it is as it was originallyrecorded. Slowly, with an almost drag beat. “Train I r--i--d--e.”.The fascination stays intact at any speed, always impenetrable and complex. A song containing no obvious emotion, but once heard it will notleave your head. American and ancient, simple and demanding,inspired and sad.

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Dance Card Vol. 213/04/0316:07Page 10I’ve have tried several times to link this to other images.But it has never worked

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Dance Card Vol. 213/04/0316:07Page 12Start from Home, 1962

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Dance Card Vol. 213/04/0316:07Page 36School Days--Chuck BerryLittle Star--The ElegantsShotgun--Jr. Walker and the All StarsLove is Strange--Mickey and SylviaWhy do Fools fall in Love--Frankie Lyman andthe TeenagersThe Echoes Keep Calling Me--Little Joe theThrillerI Put A Spell on You--Screamin’ Jay HawkinsRebel Rouser--Duane EddyA Thousand Miles Away--The HeartbeatsAll I’ve got to do Is Dream--The Everly BrothersThe Wanderer--DionRumble--Link RayPart Doll--Buddy KnoxMystery Train--Little Jr. ParkerGreen Onions--Booker T and the MG’sOde to Billy Joe--Bobbie GentryI’m Not There (1956)--Bob DylanWillie and the Hand Jive--Johnny Otis and hisOrch.Let It Rock--Chuck BerryMove On Down the Line--Jerry Lee LewisLucille--Little RichardThe Messiah--Roy

Little Wing--Jimi Hendrix Rave On--Buddy Holly Take Me from This Garden of Evil--Jimmy Wages Susie Q--Dale Hawkins Ghosts--Albert Ayler Lets Go, Lets Go, Lets Go--Hank Ballard and the Midnighters Sometin’ Else--Eddie Cochran Coney Island Baby--The Excellents