The Ballad of Curtis Loew (cover)

The Ballad of Curtis Loew is one of my favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd songs of all time. The story in the song reminds me of a country store in the late 1970s, near Grand Cane, Louisiana, that we used to stop at in the summertime when we were hauling hay. There were always a few old black men hanging around playing guitars, harmonicas, and singing in the Louisiana summertime heat, under the shade of the stores awning. This is one of the hardest songs to correctly cover without a full band behind you. My version is more of a country version and is nowhere near the original, but it came out OK. I recorded and mixed 5 tracks on my Tascam DP-004 multi-track recorder. One acoustic track using my Fender 140SCE thru an Acoustic AG30 amp, a lead guitar track using a Squier Vintage Modified Thinline Telecaster thru a Line 6 Spider III 75, a bass track using my Squier P Bass thru a GK Backline 110, a drum track on an Alesis SR-16, and a vocal track using a Shure SM-58 thru an original Peavey MP-4 I bought in 1979. The video of the scratch track is laid over the final mixed audio track, its not perfect, but itll do. Thanks for watching.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Southern Rock
• Mayhaw
• Ballad of Curtis
• Fender 140SCE
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Curtis Lowe
• Curtis Loew
• cover
• Tascam DP-004
• Squier Thinline
• AG30
• Scotty Mayhaw

[thetoxicelmo]

you have got a real good voice the guitar couldve been a little more like the original though. Very good!!

[ScottyMayhaw]

@thetoxicelmo - Thank You

[TristaT92]

Man u have got a talent there is not very many people who can play an sing. I play my self an people tht comment on stuff on hear don't know how hard it is when u actually git in front of a mike an your the closest iv ever herd to the rill deal if not better than skynard u rock

[ScottyMayhaw]

@TristaT92 - Thank You Trista that means alot, and made my day.

[321harold]

Very well done! I love this song. My first job out of high school was in commercial construction and everybody nicknamed me Curtis Loew (my first name is Curtis). They told me it was a song by Lynard Skynard and I looked it up and loved the song.

[ScottyMayhaw]

@321harold - It's a great song, and one of my all time Skynyrd Favorites!

[TristaT92]

@ScottyMayhaw ur very welcome :)

[zombiestoned]

i dont know about this your singing is good the guitar kinda sucks original is better nice try

dwfgasdg

[ScottyMayhaw]

@tennboy789 - Thank You, Its always a work in progress

[tennboy789]

I heard the first 3 words and knew you could sing haha