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"Rock Salt and Nails" is a moody lyric piece by Bruce "Utah" Philips (1935–2008), the self-described
"Golden Voice of the Great Southwest".
On the sleeve-notes on the back of Sorrels' album Rosalie's Songbag, Rosalie says the following: "'Rock Salt and Nails' is another of Bruce Phillips' songs. He taught it to me one night right after he thought it up, and then when I sang it back to him sometime later, he made me a gift of it. It is one of my most prized possessions. He tells me the tune is pretty close to Carter Stanley's 'Lonesome River'."I may have learned it from Joan Baez. |