Long Hot Summer Day Turnpike Troubadours Shirt

“Long Hot Summer Day Turnpike Troubadours Shirt” – impressive production for the band’s 2024 tour, combining many genres of rock. Turnpike Troubadours always bring the audience the most exciting musical moments and this is also a gift for yourself as well as a gift for relatives and friends with similar interests.

Long Hot Summer Day Song By Turnpike Troubadours

“Long Hot Summer Day” by Turnpike Troubadours is a song about a man who has to work long hard hours on the Illinois river while his lady waits for him at home. It is a typical anthem of a blue collar worker. Although this song was released by Turnpike in 2010, it was originally written by John Hartford in 1976.

Hartford was a a folk, country and bluegrass composer, as well as an expert fiddler who spent most of his life in St. Louis Missouri working on the Mississippi River. Now it makes more sense that the band didn’t write this song, considering the Turnpike Troubadours are from Oklahoma and have never worked on the river. Although this song was written in 1976, it has a timeless message that people can relate to by using simple structure with appropriate instruments to set the mood.

This song appeared on their album Diamonds and Gasoline which did not make a dent on the music charts. But, their next album released two years later in 2012 called Goodbye Normal Street reached number 14 on the U.S. country charts according to Billboard. Why might this be? Some success may be due to the fact that the St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter made it his walk up song in 2013 – the same year they were in the World Series. Band member and fiddle player Kyle Nix thinks this exposure is what “seems to have blown up fan base really big”. Social media seemed to have made the song very popular in the Missouri region.

In order to understand this song it is important to go back to its roots. The original writer of the song, John Hartford, was born in 1938 and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He got his first job at 10 years old on a river boat and spent his time listening to “traditional country music he heard on the Grand Ole Opry”.

By age 13 he was an expert on the fiddle, banjo, and guitar. This early job is what influenced the writing of “Long Hot Summer Day” as seen in the chorus lines, “For every day I workin’ on the Illinois River / Get a half a day off with pay / Oh tow boat pickin’ up barges”. Notice the incorrect grammar being used here which adds to the speakers voice.

A southern river boat worker as well as the type of person listening to this song most likely don’t use perfect language. While the members of Turnpike did not have this same experience in, they can all relate to working on hot (Oklahoma) summer days. Initially the band wasn’t going to record the song but once they performed it live and got a positive response they went ahead with it. I think they realized the live performance potential this song had.

According to band member Kyle Nix, “Evan was listening to a lot of John Hartford, and I was listening to a lot of bluegrass stuff…It was just kind of a neat little song. It was cool the way Hartford did it, just by himself, tapping his foot, playing the fiddle. And we figured it might be cool to put a whole band behind a song like that”.

This brings to attention the audience that Turnpike is trying to appeal to. This young band is better known for their live performances at all different types of venues. I have seen them perform at a small cafe, a country music festival, and even at a fraternity house. They take pride in sticking to their roots even as they grow bigger. “Long Hot Summer Day” emphasizes the appeal of their live performances with the multiple instrumental solos.

While the solos my not be as exciting in a recording studio, it can bring great entertainment at a concert to show off the band. They are creating a loyal fan base with people who are willing to attend their concerts in many different places. This can been seen online in a review comment on an article about their Diamonds and Gasoline album.

Duluke stated that, “these guys came and played at a tiny rural Minnesota bar north of the Twin Cities in the middle of last winter. I thought it was very cool of them to make that trip. It was an awesome show that made a fan out of me”. Their fans clearly love their commitment and the message they portray.

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