Hollow Hardship Blues
Bones Holloway
Blues
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Raw Delta blues track built on a classic 12-bar progression, with soulful male vocals bending blue notes to convey deep hardship and unyielding resilience. Expressive guitar bends and call-and-response patterns drive the intimate verses and soaring chorus, punctuated by a gritty solo showcasing improvisation and syncopated rhythms. Unpolished production emphasizes acoustic warmth, harmonica wails, and live-room feel for authentic emotional grit.
Lyrics
Down in the hollow Where the shadows grow long Feeling the weight Singing my lonesome song Bills stack high I can't climb empty pockets Echoing through Echoing through the night Nighttime rain Rain beats the roof Tears fall just the same Chasing dreams that fade Like a dying flame Oh, this hardship's Got me down Low But I keep on pushing Through the undertow Hey, in my bones Fire in my soul Gonna rise up strong Make the hard times roll I've lost my way In the storm Can't see the light Friends turn their backs In the dead of night Hunger gnaws deep But I won't break or bend I won't bend Holdin' on tight Till the bitter Yeah Hardship's my shadow But I won't run One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine And the battle be won And the battle be won One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine One day the sun gonna shine
Hollow Hardship Blues
Bones Holloway
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