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So Long Blues is sung and co-written by Rosie Flores along with Pat Gallagher. I had the lyric mostly written and I took it to Pat. He came up with a melody and said it would be a good song to finish writing with Rosie. She was just back in Nashville after a trip to London where she had broken her hand in an accident. She had her hand set so she could still hold a pick. Her hand was still in a brace when we wrote this song. We wrote and recorded this song at the kitchen table on a hand held tape recorder. There is a “ghost” track on the recording where Rosie tried to stop and start over, but the song continues.
