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I spent last week in Louisiana with my fiancee Rachel. While I was there I went to hear a couple of her relatives play bluegrass at a local restaurant. Since that day I haven’t been able to get the sound of bluegrass music out of my head. I’ve listened to the band’s CD a few dozen times by now, and have my itunes radio permenantly set on some random bluegrass channel.

Anyway, this isn’t about all that. For some reason after that weekend I’ve been thinking a lot more about the song “Seven Bridges Road”, originally recorded by Steve Young on his 1969 album “Rock Salt & Nails”.

If you’re anything like me though, you probably believe the best recording of this track is by the Eagles, and it can only be found in live form on a couple different albums. Most easily on their “The Very Best Of” Album

Well as I listened to this track a few zillion times this weekend during the setup of my new computer I started wondering about what the song really refered to. So here’s the actual word straight from Steve Young himself.

Steve Remembers “Seven Bridges Road”

7 Bridges Road was real. It is still real but I don’t think it exists in the same way as I remember it due to development , etc.

I lived in Montgomery , Alabama in the early 60’s and had a group of friends there that showed me the road. It led out of town and after you had crossed 7 Bridges you found yourself out in the country on a dirt road. Spanish Moss hung in the trees and there were old farms with old fences and graveyards and churches and streams. A high bank dirt road with trees. It seemed like a Disney Fantasy at times. People went there to get away from it all. I thought my friends had made up the name “7 Bridges Road” . I found out later that it had been called by that name for over a 100 years. That people had been struck by the beauty of the road for a long time, however , this is not the official name of the road. It is a “folk name”.

I never dreamed that anyone would understand or like this song. I played it for the first time one night in Montgomery and it got a big reaction. I was very surprised and thought it just because it was a local known thing and that was why they liked it.

Thats how it happened.

Steve Young

Anyway, if you haven’t heard it, or it’s been awhile, give it a listen and remember Alabama for something other than a played out Lynyrd Skynyrd track. That’s right I said it.