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Stillhouse Blues

from Eric Allen by Eric Allen

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about

As an adolescent, I often visited poor, mountainous areas in eastern Kentucky, where my grandmother lived. The counties were dry, but the hollers were wet with moonshine stills. Stillhouse Blues draws on my memories of the culture of distrust in those hills toward the authorities. In Stillhouse, a harmless old moonshiner starts to panic when a friend warns him that the police are coming to destroy his moonshine still. He believes they would rather shoot him than leave him alone.

少年时，我经常到祖母居住的肯塔基州东部贫困山区去。那里是干燥的，但是街道上的空气因蒸馏酿酒而变得潮湿。 《Stillhouse Blues》是我回忆在那个山丘里偷偷卖酒的人的故事，那里的人们不信任他们的政府警官。如果一位走私酿酒人被告知警察将来销毁他酿的酒的话，他必然无比惊慌，尽管他没有伤害任何人，他也知道这位警察会同时让他毙命。

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Now you know Johnny say
你知道约翰尼怎么说
Nah, he come round here
他来找我
Wanna talk to me
有话跟我说
late last night
昨天深夜
I say Yeah?
我问：
What you got to say?
你想说什么？
Come around here lord
特意跑来
Wake me up
吵醒我
He said the man comin’ around
他说警察要来了
Bringin’ the clubs and the dynamite
带着棍棒和炸药

Lord they wanna
他们要
bust up my still
摧毁我的酒坊
Tryin’ to bust it
要摧毁它
bust up my still
摧毁我的酒坊
Lord they won’t let
他们不让
Won’t let the poor moon shine
这破旧的魔闪酒坊存活

Lord no, no lord
上帝
Ain’t gonna do it now
他们不放过我
Oh ain’t gonna leave me alone
欧，不放过我
Gonna have to find my shovel lord
我得找到铁锹
find my shovel lord
找到我的铁锹
Dig a hole down in the ground
在地里挖个洞
Don’t know what I’m gonna do
我已不知所措
My head be spinnin’ round n’ round
脑子一片混乱

Gonna have to write my numbers lord
我得记下我那几个数字
Yeah, get em’ up outta my head
对，把脑子里的写下来
To write down, write down my numbers now
记下我的数字
Lord go and get em’ up outta my head
把脑子里的写下来
So that boy of mine know what he doin’
好让儿子知道怎么做
Keep his mama fed
来养活他的母亲
That’s right
没错儿

Lord they wanna
上帝，他们要
bust up my still
摧毁我的酒坊
Tryin’ to bust it
摧毁它
bust up my still
摧毁我的酒坊
Lord they bringin’
上帝，他们带着
Bringin’ the clubs and the dynamite
棍棒和炸药

Yeah, oh yeah you know they mean business too
你知道那是他们的工作
Uh huh
嗯哈
They gon blow it up
他们肯定炸毁它
Oh got me all upset now
我火冒三丈
I don’t know what I’m gonna do
不知道该做什么
Gonna have to find my shovel
我得找到铁锹
Lord dig a hole in the ground
在地里挖个洞

Now you know the county say
你知道县上说
got no money
他们没有钱
keep you up in that jailhouse every day
每天把你养在监狱里
Yeah the county say ain’t got no money
县上说他们没有钱
Lord keep you down there feed you every day
每天还得养着你
But you know they got money for them bullets
但是他们有钱买子弹
Rather shoot me than leave me be
不如一枪毙了我
Ah one more
再来一次

Lord they wanna
上帝，他们
bust up my still
要摧毁我的酒坊
Tryin’ to bust it
要摧毁它
bust up my still
摧毁我的酒坊
Lord they won’t let
他们不让
Won’t let the poor moon shine
这破旧的魔闪酒坊存活

Oh no, nah
欧，不
You know they ain’t gonna do it lord
他们不会放过我
Gonna have to go find my shovel
我得找到铁锹
Lord dig a hole lord
挖一个洞
go dig a hole now
挖一个洞
deep down in the ground
在地里挖个深深的洞
Don’t know what I’m gonna do
我已不知所措
My head be spinnin’ round n’ round
脑子一片混乱

credits

from Eric Allen, released January 9, 2021
Songwriter (作词作曲) - Eric Allen
Vocals & Guitar (演唱和吉他) - Eric Allen
Harmonica (口琴) - Greg Luttrell
Double Bass (低音提琴) - James Thomason
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Recording, production, mixing, and mastering: Brad M. Seippel at Brevity of Motion Sounds (Beijing, China) 2020

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Eric Allen, originally from Indiana, is known for his authentic Americana, blues, country sound. Eric released his 2nd album, Prowlin' Lobo Blues, in Feb. 2023. Eric’s self-titled debut album released in Jan. 2021.
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