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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Comments

[lunar8i8star.livejournal.com]

And for dive bars you want to go to Philomath or Albany.

[shoelacedreamer.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Ew. You're the only person who would put on a cowboy hat and go to these bars with me, so I guess I'm shit outta luck. ;)

[lunar8i8star.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much always up for throwing on a cowboy hat and going to a bar with you. Where's Orlando and his big sparkly pink cowboy hat we got him at Claire's when we need them?
Oh right, living in my head. Stupid reality where we didn't go to the mall with Orlando like all the time that summer.

[shoelacedreamer.livejournal.com]

Ornaldo Mlooooob! Sometimes I really miss him. Even Lucy's stopped looking, which is a little sad. Although sometimes she still flips out and runs around the house like a giant spaz for no reason. I choose to believe that she's being chased by mischievous but ultimately harmless spirits.