Tuesday, January 22, 2019

"Matchbox"

The other thing I noticed when I listened to the second disc of Live at the BBC is in "Matchbox."  The "go" in the last "I ain't got no matches, but I sure got a long way to go" is sung with a melisma (C A), musically giving a sense of movement.  This is also in the Beatles' studio version and in Carl Perkins' original.