Song 69 ( Ronnie Milsap - Smokey Mountain Rain )

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Continuing my truck driving song week, I decided on Smokey Mountain Rain by Ronnie Milsap. A very good song about being on the road away from your love and the person in the song is trying to find her after she had left.
The verses are very low key and smooth but what really is excellent about this song is the chorus. This song has two really prominent hooks: the transition between the verse and chorus and the low notes in the chorus on the piano to signify thunder. Oddly enough, that "thunder" was Elvis Presley's doing. I heard in an interview with Ronnie Milsap that the idea came when playing piano with Elvis on the song Kentucky Rain that Elvis told him to make some thunder on the lower keys; he decided to put it into this song as well.

Hear Smokey Mountain Rain on YouTube.
Here is a live performance on YouTube.

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