we'll head up to the mountain, pick-up trucks and old guitars

[debs]

It's been quite awhile since I've been charmed by an album, but that's the best way I can describe how I felt when I stuck Hayes Carll's Trouble in Mind in my CD player on the way to work this morning. Carll is a singer-songwriter from The Woodlands, Texas--most evocative town name ever--who's garnered comparisons to Dylan and Townes Van Sant, but I think he sounds most like Todd Snider. He's got a rockabilly alt-country thing going for him, and this album "sounds" Texas more than anything else I've heard in awhile. It makes me want to go barefoot out in the fields and throw on an old pair of jeans to go drinking at the closest thing we have to dive bar in this town.

I'm sharing "Girl Downtown" because it brings a smile to my face (and I want my romantic life to turn out like that) and "Faulkner Street" because it's my favorite song on the album.

"Girl Downtown" by Hayes Carll
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"Faulkner Street" by Hayes Carll
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