So, if you listened to that Swamp Rock that I posted last night, you might want to recall this, and this. Was Stevie ripping off Jerry Reed? Unconsciously, I suppose, even as Jerry “ripped off” Delta Blues, but the allusiveness of pop music has always anticipated the interesting elements of post-modernism, without the self-consciously “sophisticated” hokeyness.
What one-hit wonder song is behind this, converted to Jerry Lee Lewis piano? Answer here.
Swamp Rock sounds like it was coined by K-Tel. It went private this year looks like. I missed that.
Reed was always a lot better picker than he ever really got credit for. The only guy ever to stand up to Colonel Tom Parker in a recording studio (or anywhere else, for that matter) and come out on top with his royalties intact, too.
Was Stevie ripping off Jerry Reed? I don’t know, but it wouldn’t surprise me. He’s the single most overrated artist in pop history. And “Superstition” is a particular pet peeve of mine. I’ve never bothered to see whether he did the arrangement himself, but whoever did it should be shot. That horn part would have been an awesome kicker, but they bring it in in the very first verse, and then annoyingly play it through the whole song. That’s the type of thing that should be brought in at the end for the rideout. Instead, it ruins what would otherwise have been a great song.