Abigail Washburn says this one began when she tried out some funk riffs on a recently-acquired cello banjo. Those experiments with her husband and musical collaborator, Bela Fleck, led to this tune.
Lyrically, Washburn's goal was to reverse the roles in a traditional murder ballad by giving the woman the desire to do away with some traitorous man. Her child-like, sing-song delivery is more suggestive of a child who uses fantasy as a way to escape an oppressor who is much bigger and stronger. What could be more frightening than that?
Here are Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn with "Shotgun Blues".
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