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This is an ode to my single mother and the advice she's given me. I wanted a short biographical song that allows me to give a frame of reference for where all of my songs come from and this was born. My Grandfather flew a B-29 in WWII called the “Missouri Queen”. There were Japanese fighters with floodlights on their noses that would chase the B-29s and light them up so they could be shot down. She told me that he would say "Don't get caught in the light", which is advice that she passed down for me to interrupt My Dad was a pilot and always gone when i was growing up, I would look up at the stars and confuse them with taillights of airplanes. Hence the shooting stars. When my parents separated, my mom returned to the farm where my grandparents lived and it became an integral part of my life. When I pushed my mom for more advice for the song she repeated what she has always told me, which is this story. “A Persian king asked the wisest man of his country for advice that would always be true, and he replied ‘This too shall pass’”.

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~ Missouri Queen ~
I was born in the Georgia sunshine
Raised between the loblolly pine
My momma is a Missouri Queen
Unto her I owe everything

She hitched a ride on a shooting star
They went everywhere near and far
Her father warned her, don't be caught in the light
You got fly high if you wanna make through the night

She returned to that house on the hill
To teach me lessons about standing still
She said all the troubles that come your way
They too shall pass someday

It's taken a life time to get this far
There are no more shooting stars

credits

from Out in the Cold - 12th ST Singles, released April 28, 2018
~Missouri Queen~ (1:50)
John L Keck - Guitar and Vocals
All Songs Written by John L. Keck
Photography by Angie Jennings
Art Direction by Travis Mcelhany
Produced/Engineered/Mixed by Chase Horseman at Element Recording & Mastering Studios
Mastered by Ian Dobyns

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John L keck Kansas City, Missouri

I write from personal experience on the whole, and even when I’m telling a tale, its grounded in something that's happened to me... a sliver of time in the crazy ride that has been my life. Hopefully that comes through honestly .I write about everything, often about love or emotions surrounding relationships, those seem to be the songs that people respond to the most. ... more

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