Mike Milligan & Steam Shovel - Bills In My Kitchen

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Album: All My Life - Find More & Download: | Lyrics:
I stand before you today
there's proof that, I ever was
Repeat

All it takes is a will & a mind
and a little courage
to take chance

I got bills in my kitchen too
& they're piled way up to the sky
repeat

I feel I'd be much better off
if I just could just
lay down here and die

But I'd rather put my fingers
on the strings
Then put them on a trigger
And pull back

Once you dead and gone
seems there ain't no way
of coming back
There's (???) I know in the world

I stand before you today
there's proof that, I ever was

All it takes is a will & a mind
and a little courage
to take a chance

I got bills in my kitchen too
& they're piled way up to the sky repeat

I feel I'd be much better off
if I just could just
lay down here and die

Thanks to Lona Popoki for the lyrics.

Photos from Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series

From Kokomo, Indiana, Mike began playing guitar in 1977 at age 6. Mike grew up hearing his father's soul-rock bands. As a boy, he traveled with them and the Drifters in the mid 1970's throughout the southern United States. He recieved his first guitar at age 5. He purchased his first electric guitar at age 10 with paper route money. His vocals and guitar have been called "gritty and soulful" and have been compare to many. He formed Steam Shovel in the Summer of 1993 and named the band after his favorite childrens book by Viginia Lee Burton, "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel". "My mom bought the book for me from a garage sale when I was a boy. Recently, I've contacted the author's children, who are in their 70's, and they were delighted to see what the band's been doing. They also put a copy of "All My Life" in the National Library of Congress along side their mother's books", Mike said.
Its seems that Mike writes music that is appreciated and enjoyed by all ages. You may catch him performing with the band or solo electric, acoustic 12 string, or National steel, at a Blues Sunday School, an elementary or high school, and then at a venue that night, always sharing the music…
Mike cites his father, "Big" Mike, Robert Cray, Tad Robinson, Howling Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall (1 and 2), Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Donny Hathaway Jimi Hendrix, Albert King and Collins.(get the picture?) as his mentors.
Mike formed Steam Shovel in the summer of 1993, and has performed with/opened for: The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Robert Cray, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Buddy Guy, Al Green, Tower of Power, Sam Lay, W.C. Clark, Lonnie Brooks, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Joe Bonamassa, Chris Duarte, BB King, and was named "Best Blues Band in Indiana" in 2002 @ The Slippery Noodle Inn by the Crossroads Blues Society of Indiana!
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