I'm getting there!! "Seven Bridges Road" - This iconic song by the Eagles from the late 1960s speaks directly to the heart with thrilling vocal harmonies that will showcase your ensemble at their best! "Seven Bridges Road" was ultimately included on Ricochet's 2000 album release, What You Leave Behind, with the track serving as B-side of that album's first single "Do I Love You Enough". After two advance singles from What a Ride: "Honky Tonk Baby" and "Can't Stop Thinkin' 'Bout That", had fallen short of the Top 40 of the C&W chart, the track "Seven Bridges Road" was sent to C&W radio 19 April 1999. It was always a vocally unifying moment, all five voices coming together in harmony." A lot of people over the years had been struck by the beauty of the road, and the folk name for it was Seven Bridges Road. The song's composer Steve Young, would recall he and his friends (Steve Young quote:) "used to go out to Woodley Road carousing around":[1] "I wound up writing this song that I never dreamed anybody would even relate to, or understand, or get. Sometimes there's a part of me Li [E] ke some lon [D] esome ch [A] ild [E] [8] However, in Young's words: "One day we ran out of songs to record [for Rock Salt & Nails] in the studio...[9] I started playing 'Seven Bridges Road'. And if ever you decide you should go. It's actually a real road with the name according. Billboard Hot 100 becoming the group's final Top 40 hit until "Get Over It" by the reunited band in 1994. C D Running like a child from these warm stars D C G/B D Down the Seven Bridges Road. [17] "Seven Bridges Road" is performed live by Ricochet on the band's 2004 concert album The Live Album. It turned out to be a beautiful record[ing]". [Bridge] There are stars Down the Seven Bridges Road Now I have loved you like a baby Like some lonesome child And I have loved you in a tame way And I have loved you wild Sometimes there's a part of me Has to turn from here and go Running like a child from these warm stars Down the Seven Bridges Road There are stars in the Southern sky And if ever you decide You should go This article is about the song. I was very surprised and thought it just because it was a local known thing and that was why they liked it." I find it quite easy (so far!) In the Southern sky "[2] Journalist Wayne Greenhaw in his book My Heart Is in the Earth: True Stories of Alabama & Mexico (Red River Publishing/ 2001) relates how on a Sunday in springtime he accompanied Young and their friend Jimmy Evans on a drive down Woodley Road to Orion for a guitar jam session with bluesman C. P. Austin, and that it was on the return trip up Woodley Road that Young began the composition of "Seven Bridges Road". There is a taste of thyme sweetened honey Down the Seven Bridges Road Felder recalls that it "blew [the audience] away. There are benches near the middle two bridges and at the end where bridge 7 once stood. I reccomend going to Helen Hunt Falls first, then take the drive up the hill to the Seven Bridges Trail. Down the Seven Bridges Road The Seven Bridges Road. My Oklahoma 8. D C There are stars G D In the southern sky D C G D Southward as you go D C There is moonlight G D And moss in the trees D C G D Down the seven bridges road D C G D Now I have loved you like a baby D C G D Like some lonesome child D C G D And I have loved you in a tame way D C G D And I have loved you wild C D Sometimes there's a part of me C D Has to turn form here and go C D Running … The track's sepia tone promo video - filmed on Woodley Road on 22–23 March 1999 [16] and mostly comprising footage of trysting couples shown at various times during the 20th century - received strong support from CMT: however the track itself only rose to No. D C There are stars G D In the southern sky D C G D Southward as you go D C There is moonlight G D And moss in the trees D C G D Down the seven bridges road D C G D Now I have loved you like a baby D C G D Like some lonesome child D C G D And I have loved you in a tame way D C G D And I have loved you wild C D Sometimes there's a part of me C D Has to turn form here and go C D Running … Down the Seven Bridges Road There are stars in the southern sky And if ever you decide you should go There is a taste of time sweet and honey Down the Seven Bridges Road Writer/s: Stephen T. Young Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind "Seven Bridges Road" is an ode to Woodley Road, a rural two-lane road which runs south off East Fairview Avenue - the southern boundary of the Cloverdale neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama - at Cloverdale Road, and which features seven bridges: three pairs of bridges, and the seventh approximately 1 mile south by itself. Of all the singer/songwriters associated with outlaw country, Georgia-born Steve Young may be the most overlooked and underappreciated. Get there early, parking is kinda sparce. [Verse 2] [Just Vocals] D C G/B D There are stars in the southern sky. [11] Matthews' album was recorded with producer Mike Nesmith at the latter's Countryside Ranch studio in North Hills, Los Angeles: Nesmith would recall of Matthews' recording of "Seven Bridges Road": "Ian and I put it together and [we] sang about six or seven part harmony on the thing, and I played acoustic. Seven Bridges Road (Made Easy): Jam Along; Congrats on a WONDERFUL site!-Sue. "[3], Living on-and-off in Montgomery in the early 1960s, Young made (Steve Young quote:) "a few close friends there who very different [from] than the mainstream [locals.These friends told] me about this...Seven Bridges Road....As you went out into the countryside the road became this dirt road, and you crossed seven bridges, and then it was almost like an old Disney scene or something, with these high bank dirt roads and trees hanging down, old cemeteries, and so on. C G Running like a child from these warm stars, D C G Down the seven bridges road REST OF VERSES There are stars in the southern sky, Southward as you go. Montgomery In The Rain 3. "Seven Bridges Road" is a song written by American musician Steve Young, recorded in 1969 for his Rock Salt & Nails album. They issued it as a single, with "The Long Run" (live) as its B-side; the song reached No. Wild Goose 9. [Chorus] The song describes the emotions the singer feels as he travels the road, which really does does have seven bridges and moss covered trees. 48 on the C&W chart, and the release of its parent What a Ride album - intended for July 1999 - was canceled. A Google search of “seven bridges road nc” will mostly bring up business addresses and a gruesome criminal case that plagues Nash and Edgecome. Lonesome, On'ry And Mean Ricochet, who had been performing "Seven Bridges Road" in concert, recorded the song in 1998 in the sessions for the intended album release What a Ride. It has since been covered by many artists, the best-known version being a five-part harmony arrangement by English musician Iain Matthews recorded by the American rock band, the Eagles in 1980. [12] On the similarity of the Eagles' later version, Nesmith would state: "Son of a gun if...Don [Henley] or somebody in the Eagles didn't lift [our] arrangement absolutely note for note for vocal harmony...If they can't think it up themselves [and] they've got to steal it from somebody else, better they should steal it...from me I guess." The official music video for Seven Bridges Road premiered on YouTube at the end of September 2015.Listen to Home Free's song above. It has since been covered by many artists, the best-known version being a five-part harmony arrangement by English musician Iain Matthews recorded by the American rock band, the Eagles in 1980. The Seven Bridges Road is a four mile section of Skyline Parkway on the east end of Duluth, Minnesota, where the Parkway follows Amity Creek from the top of the bluffs down to Lake Superior. [4] "Seven Bridges Road" was not originally intended for inclusion on the Rock Salt & Nails album; in fact, Young states album producer Tommy LiPuma "didn't want me to record original songs. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1972 Vinyl release of "Seven Bridges Road" on Discogs. Th [E] ere is moo [D] nlight and m [A] oss in the t [E] rees. “There are stars in the Southern sky/Southward as you go/There is moonlight and moss in the trees/Down the Seven Bridges Road.” Available separately: SATB, SAB, TTB(B), ShowTrax CD. “Seven Bridges Road” Written by Steve Young. Now I have loved you like a baby Like some lonesome child And I have loved you in a tame way And I have loved you wild. 21 on the U.S. [Verse 1] D C There are stars G D In the southern sky D C G D Southward as you go D C There is moonlight G D And moss in the trees [Chorus] D C G D Down the Seven Bridges Road [Verse 2] D C G D Now I have loved you like a baby D C G D Like some lonesome child D C G D And I have loved you in a tame way D C G D And I have loved you wild C D Sometimes there's a part of me C D … LiPuma interjected: 'You know I don't want to hear original stuff.' "[2] Young initially believed that Seven Bridges Road was his friends' personal byname for Woodley Road: (Steve Young quote:)"I found out later that [it] had been called that for a long, long time. [4] Young did play a completed version of the song at a gig in Montgomery - according to Jimmy Evans, Young's usual local performing venue was the Shady Grove club [7] - ; (Young quote:) "it got a big reaction. 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