Chris Jones & The Night Drivers bake new music
"This is an old and lesser-known Vietnam War-era song of Tom T.'s," said Jones, whose friendship with Hall and his songwriting partner and wife, Miss Dixie, ran long and deep enough that he and members of the Night Drivers were chosen to accompany Tom T. at his last public concert. "And it's the first song of his I've recorded since his passing a few years ago. I think I didn't feel ready to until now. He had a unique ability to incorporate bits of humor into a sad story, and this is definitely one of those. This song is vivid and poignant in a way that is vintage Tom T. Hall. I was going to record this several years ago, but when I brought it up to Tom T. and Dixie, they wrote 'Hero in Harlan' that very day to give me something new to do instead."
Lyrics include:
The bottle hidden underneath the blanket, over my two battered legs
I can see the stewardess make over me and ask "Were you afraid?"
I'll say, "Why, no, I'm Superman, and couldn't find the phone booth quite in time."
A GI gets a lot of laughs
If he remembers all the funny lines
Mama bake a pie, Daddy kill a chicken
Your son is coming home, 11:35 Wednesday night"
Carly Arrowood provided fiddle on the song. The band consists of Jones on guitar and lead vocals, Mark Stoffel on mandolin, Grace van't Hof on banjo and ukelele and Marshall Wilborn on bass.
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