Take The Long Road

from Blind Spot by The Lucky Losers

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Stay the course, stay on the long road, don't try and find a way out take a short cut. You will make it if you can stay on the long road. This song is a soulful, bluesy, funky testament to determination against the long, odds. By taking the hits, you succeed.

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All my life, ya, I been told
That I would surely fail, ‘Cause I been steppin’ to slow

I don’t, take no, detour
And no short cut
I take the long road (you hear me?)
I take the long road

Nobody gave me nothin’, and that’s a fact
I had to pull myself out of a ditch, with a knife in my back
I don’t, owe
Anybody, no not at all
I take the long road
I take the long road

If you are down and dirty baby, don’t give up
You got to believe, you got to believe that you got something, that nobody else has got

The deal, that‘s been given to you
Ya don’t have to accept it, baby
You can pick and choose

Just go, slow
And steady, Lord don’t ya know
Take the long Road
Take the Long Road

If you are down and dirty baby, don’t give up
Just believe, you got to believe you got something
That nobody else has got

Take the long road
We gonna move it y’all

I don’t care what anybody say
(You can talk all you want)
I learned a long time ago
When things get in my way

I don’t take no detour
And and no short cut (don’t need it)
I just keep on movin’ baby
I just keep on moving down the line
Oh ya
I said I’m gonna take the long road
Ya ain’t gonna stop me now
And when they go low
And they will, they will go low
I go high
I go high

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from Blind Spot, track released May 18, 2018
Lyrics and Music by Cathy Lemons and music by Danny Caron.

The Lucky Losers (with Cathy Lemons & Phil Berkowitz)

Special Guests on "Blind Spot":
Kid Andersen, Laura Chavez, Annie Staninec, Nancy Wright

The Lucky Losers are:
Cathy Lemons: vocals; Phil Berkowitz: vocals/harmonica; Ian Lamson: lead & rhythm guitars; Chris Burns: keyboards; Endre Tarczy: bass; Robi Bean: drums

Additional Musicians (on tracks):
Kid Andersen: lead guitar (3,10), acoustic guitar (4, 6) rhythm guitar (8,11); percussion: (4, 6) sound effects (1,6,8)
Laura Chavez: lead guitar (2, 5)
Annie Staninec: violin (6)
Nancy Wright: saxophone (3,7)
Jack Sanford: Baritone Saxophone (3)
John Halbeib: Trumpet (3)
D'Mar: drums (7), percussion (2, 3, 4, 5, 9,10)
Lloyd Meadows: washboard (1)
Tim Wager: bass (7)

Produced by Kid Andersen, Phil Berkowitz, & Cathy Lemons

Recorded at Greaseland Studios, San Jose, CA
Mixing & Mastering: Kid Andersen
Vocal Production Assistance: Raz Kennedy (track 7)
Horn Arrangements: Kid Andersen
All other arrangements: The Lucky Losers
Additional Engineering: (track 7)
Dave Bell, Bellboy Studios, Richmond, CA

Graphic Design: Maurice Tani
Photography: Nino Fernandez | @onino.fernandez

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Winners of 5 Independent Blues Awards in 2021 for "Godless Land". Blues, soul, old school retro, genre bending sonic films with political and social subject matter as well as great male female lead singing with harmony.

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