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During childhood visits to my grandparents, my grandfather, Ben Jones, a coal miner, would give us his rendition of Lonnie Donegan’s ‘The Wabash Cannonball’, with my grandmother, Janet, joining him on harmonica and Uncle Lynford, who used to be in a skiffle band, on guitar. Forty years later I watched a clip of Jerry Reed performing the song on The Porter Wagoner Show. Afterwards, Wagoner asks Reed to play ‘that blues thing’, upon which ‘the Guitar Man’ strikes up a refrain of the Ray Charles number ‘Hallelujah I Love Her So’, but is interrupted mid-verse by the advertisements. This is a song about the skiffle music so beloved of my forebears; the existential horror of being marooned in perpetuity between verse and chorus; and the inconsequential moments of which life mostly consists but which are seldom deemed worthy of commemoration.

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Watching a clip of Jerry Reed
On the Porter Wagoner Show
He plays a version of
‘The Wabash Cannonball’
There goes the Wabash Cannonball
Taking me back to when I was small

After the applause dies down
The host requests another song
‘That blues thing’ says Wagoner

Reed starts playing the intro
To ‘Hallelujah I Love Her So’
His playing really is sublime
But he is running out of time

The second verse has just begun
When the advertisements come on
‘Hallelujah, I Love Her So’
Is in perpetual limbo
Is in perpetual limbo
The in-between, the got-nowhere-to-go

And as for Reed himself
Stuck on a never-ending shelf
Marooned between the first chorus and

A never-to-be second verse
A never-to-be second verse
A never-to-be second verse
Is this what awaits all of us?

Stuck in perpetual limbo
The in-between, the got-nowhere-to-go

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THE HEPBURNS Wales, UK

The Hepburns are a Welsh indie band from Llanelli, South-West Wales. They have recorded thirteen albums, two EPs, one single and three BBC sessions. 'Electric Lliedi Land' was released in September 2020, followed by a cover version of Vic Godard's 'I'll Find Out Over Time'. They also contributed to three Corona Underground Projects. A new album feat. Estella Rosa is due for release in Oct. 2021. ... more

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