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The Decemberists new album The King is Dead

you can listen to the whole album on npr

here
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/16/132436422 ... ng-is-dead

got to dig their lyrics

Petty green, queen of supply-side bonhomie bone-drab, you know what I mean
On the road, its well advised to follow your own bed
In the year of the chewable Ambien tab

mine the past

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/13/132027397 ... e-the-past

Enculturated!

The Believer Bob Carpenter song covered by Billy Joe Shaver. I heard this a couple of years ago. About thirty years ago to be exact. But I have never been able to find it again. The line that stuck in my mind but which I have heard wrong all these years

"my dearest friends are total strangers
they wish me freedom and self destruction"

the actual lines are

"my dearest friends are total strangers
I call them heroes they call me lonely
I wish them wisdom and self destruction
hope someday they'll come to know me"

ray wylie hubbard

I can´t say if he is a redneck or not ... I only understood the title of the song...!



it sounds good!!!!

I don't think he a redneck. Just a Texas troubador.
This is probably the song he is most famous for.



I like this one too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qX5TSmTyHc

He asked the devil which religion was the truest and the devil said:

The Edge of Reality
both versions
Elvis/Dead Rabbits

thinking how many of my musician heroes are now mean old bastards
and I'm grateful they are in it for the long haul.