Lost Highway - Eric St-Laurent Conversion

by Genevieve Marentette

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“Lost Highway” - is a timeless country tune written in 1948 by blind balladeer Leon Payne and made popular by Hank Williams, Jeff Buckley, Willie Nelson and others. A secular gospel ballad of hope with a confessional lyric, re-gendered and reclaimed for all women.

Like countless musicians who have lost their livelihood and are drifting along the lost highway, the metaphor is richer now than ever. Existential and covid angst distilled into a hopeful hymn, a whispered rebuke against the dying light - a commitment to the artistic path. - Reuben Maan

This is a remix by the talented Eric St-Laurent!
If you'd like to remix - let me know :)

lyrics

Lyric (Leon Payne, as sung by Gigi)

I'm a rolling stone, all alone and lost
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
When I pass by all the people say
Just another gal on the lost highway

Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a lovers lies breaks a life like mine
On the day we met I went astray
I started rolling down that lost highway

When I was just a girl, nearly 22
Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you
And now I'm lost
It's too late to pray
Lord I take a cost on the lost highway

Now boys don't start to rambling around
On this road of sin are you sorrow bound?
Take my advice, or you'll curse the day
You started rolling down that lost highway

credits

released April 11, 2022
Genevieve Marentette: Vocals & Production
Leon Payne: Composer, lyricist
Mastered by Ron Skinner
Photo: Cheryl Jean at Dragonfly Farm

Lost Highway
By Leon Payne
Copyright Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music
Licensed to Genevieve through Easy Song Licensing

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Genevieve Marentette Toronto, Ontario

Photo-Dale Sood
Genevieve “Gigi” Marentette is a vocalist and producer based in Toronto, Ontario. A co-founder of the "Kensington Market Jazz Festival", and "Cover One Another Concerts", she loves to collaborate on community driven projects. Genevieve accepts song requests and "Lost Highway" was commissioned as a gift. And YAY - Friends are jumping on with remixes! ... more

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