Purple Shadows

Album: Hubcap Music (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This Country duet with Nashville-based singer Elizabeth Cook finds Steve pondering some past lost opportunities. "I usually write about when I was a bum," he told The Independent, "but this one was more thoughtful. It's about regrets and maybe missed things. I was alone and a little bit drunk and my wife wasn't there."
  • Steve explained the song title to The Independent: "I was riding a big ol' Harley Davison through the desert in Texas," he recalled. "I think it was in April 1977 and everything was going into flower and it turned purple. It was a gentle thing, but kinda lonesome too, you know?"

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