{"id":3159,"date":"2017-10-27T23:47:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T03:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2021-10-10T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:15:51","slug":"im-moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/im-moving-on\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Moving On (Hank Snow\/Ray Charles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I&#039;m Moving On\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5gYouPyBG4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1980s I was looking for songs in the wide area of overlap between blues and country, and Ray Charles&#8217; terrific version of this Hank Snow hit made it an obvious choice. In that period I was touring across country twice a year, <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3163 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ray-Charles-Movin-On.jpg?resize=300%2C296&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/>with most of the gigs in bars around Montana and the Idaho panhandle. The patrons in those rooms ranged from blues fans to country listeners to folks who were just down for a drink in their local bar, and I was trying to find material that suited their tastes and also fitted with the rest of my repertoire and guitar style. If I hit the right balance, they&#8217;d even get up and dance, which never happened in the folk clubs back east.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember whether I heard Ray&#8217;s version before or after Hank Snow&#8217;s, but it was definitely my main influence, though I also listened to Snow&#8217;s a bunch. I had only one Hank Snow album, a greatest hits set I bought after reading Peter Guralnick&#8217;s chapter about him in <em>Lost Highway<\/em>. He and Guralnick didn&#8217;t hit it off in person, but Peter clearly admired his musicianship and I checked out every artist in that book. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3164 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hank-Snow-LP.jpg?resize=300%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/>In Snow&#8217;s case the exploration ended with that one album, but I liked his guitar playing and learned several songs off it. I still do &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/ive-been-everywhere\/\">I&#8217;ve Been Everywhere<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 and though I don&#8217;t remember all the words to &#8220;Rumba Boogie,&#8221; can never forget the verse that goes:<\/p>\n<p><em>When Madame Lazonga was teaching the conga<br \/>\nIn her little cabana in old Havana<br \/>\nWe were doing the charleston and balling the jack<br \/>\nAnd that old black bottom till they started the jitterbug rag&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about all I have to say about this song, except that when I was working it up for this video I started playing the banjo roll from Sam McGee&#8217;s &#8220;Railroad Blues&#8221; for the final V-chord section, and then added McGee&#8217;s full &#8220;train coming into Nashville&#8221; break . 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