Steve Louw - Mother, Don't Go featuring Joe Bonamassa

The official video for "Mother, Don't Go" featuring Joe Bonamassa, created by Jacqui Van Staden and Kian Eriksen.

Written by Steve Louw.

From the album "Thunder And Rain", to be released 11 November 2022.

Produced by Kevin Shirley.

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EXTRACT FROM BIOGRAPHY
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, October 2022

Louw celebrates the restorative, nourishing love on “Mother, Don’t Go,” an insightful, insistent tune graced by guitar wizard Joe Bonamassa, who brings out the song’s incandescent spirit as he intertwines his playing with that of Doug Lancio, a guitarist who has just entered Louw’s orbit.

NOTES ON THE SONGS
by Steve Louw

In 2020 I had been in my home on our farm for more than six months when I made the trip to Cape Town. I had been playing the only guitar that I had with me, an old acoustic.

In town, I traded with my buddy, Willem Moller, for a beautiful 1964 Epiphone Casino. When I got home, I took the Casino out of its case, and the first thing I played on it was the riff on “Mother, Don’t Go”.

The riff took me to the lyric, to the beauty of a mother’s love. It’s a simple song, and its simplicity celebrates the joy and longing for unconditional, selfless love.

LYRICS

I, Mother is gone
Why, Mother is gone
Gone too soon
You’re gone too soon.

Cry when Mother is gone
Why, Mother is gone
Gone to soon
Mother need you.

You’re bright as 16 suns, the only one
Sweet as 16 moons that have gone too soon
Bright as 16 suns, the only one
And a mother’s love keeps you strong
Keeps you going on.

Why is Mother gone?
Try to be strong
Mother, don’t go
Take me down slow
High as the burning sun
Fly to the sky as one
Of the universe, a child become.

You’re bright as 16 suns, the only one
Sweet as 16 moons that have gone too soon
Bright as 16 suns, the only one
And a mother’s love keeps you strong
Keeps you going on.

You’re bright as 16 suns, the only one
Sweet as 16 moons that have gone too soon
Bright as 16 suns, the only one
A mother’s love keeps you strong
Keeps you going on
Mother, don’t go
Take me down slow.

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