Steve Earle, Guitar Town
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Finding some great records in Boise and buying them up to stock the bins in our new shop. Just added this one to the collection, Steve Earle, Guitar town. This album made Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, calling it "the rocker's version of country, packed with songs about hard living in the Reagan Eighties." The album was recorded in late 1985 and early 1986 in Nashville. It was one of the first country music albums to be recorded digitally. Each of the album's ten tracks was either written or co-written by Earle.
But I heard someone callin' my name one day And I followed that voice down the lost highway Everybody told me you can't get far On thirty-seven dollars and a jap guitar
Guitar Town Lyrics by Steve Earle
Hey pretty baby are you ready for me
It's your good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee
I'm just out of Austin bound for San Antone
With the radio blastin' and the Bird Dog on
There's a speed trap up ahead in Selma Town
But no local yokel gonna shut me down
'Cause me and my boys got this rig unwound
And we've come a thousand miles from the Guitar Town
Nothin' ever happened 'round my hometown
And I ain't the kind to just hang around
But I heard someone callin' my name one day
And I followed that voice down the lost highway
Everybody told me you can't get far
On thirty-seven dollars and a jap guitar
Now I'm smokin' into Texas with the hammer down
And a rockin' little combo from the Guitar Town
Hey pretty baby don't you know it ain't my fault
I love to hear the steel belts hummin' on the asphalt
Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop
Stumble in the restaurant wonderin' why I don't stop
Gotta keep rockin' why I still can
I got a two-pack habit and a motel tan
But when my boots hit the boards I'm a brand new man
With my back to the riser I make my stand
And hey pretty baby won't you hold me tight
We're loadin' up and rollin' out of here tonight
One of these days I'm gonna settle down
And take you back with me to the Guitar Town
