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Great Southern

(©Kevin Gordon/Gwil Owen)

Walking along the switchback
Old boxcars on broken track
Busted glass in the ballast
Blazing in the August sun
Fire ants crawl on creosote

Grackle squawks a single note
Rusted rails like the ribs of a skeleton

Where you gonna go

On that Great Southern Road
Where you been down before
Where you gonna go

On that Great Southern Road
When you can’t go home no more

It's a black crow pecking at a road-kill coon
Out on the Trace Sunday afternoon
Steam-ghosts float from the road
After the rain
Tires hiss on the asphalt wet
Windows down don’t stop the sweat
Station out of Jackson

Starting to fade

Where you gonna go

On that Great Southern Road
You already been down before
Where you gonna go

On that Great Southern Road
When you can’t go home no more

Diamond flash in the junkyard glass--
Not so fast you too shall pass

(chorus)

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from Down to the Well: Solo Demos Unearthed, released August 6, 2020

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Kevin Gordon Nashville, Tennessee

Kevin Gordon is a Louisiana native whose latest releases, Tilt & Shine, Long Gone Time, & 2012's Gloryland, earned raves from the NY Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, and others. His songs have been recorded by Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Hard Working Americans, Irma Thomas, & others. "Down to the Well", a duet w/Lucinda Williams, was featured on the Oxford American Southern Music Sampler. ... more

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