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Backroom In Tulsa

from Backroom In Tulsa by Wesley Morgan

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"Backroom In Tulsa" is what you might hear being played at a drive-up chappel on your way to hell. Full of dark imagery and lost love, "Backroom in Tulsa" is a rollicking good time that you will regret the next day.

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In a backroom in Tulsa
Dirty deeds get done
A backroom in Tulsa
Is where I have my fun
She left me nothing
But a smile and a gun
A backroom in Tulsa
Is where it all begun

Don’t bother getting a doctor
What we need here is a priest
Cain’s cutting rugs at the ballroom on Main Street
Abel’s in a boxcar heading east

Check that back alley prophet
Preaching on his soapbox with some style
Writing down gospel
In lipstick on the tiles
The children speak in tounges
You know that the spirit takes them all
And there’s a backroom Tulsa
That will take you when you fall

Don’t bother getting a doctor
What we need here is a priest
Cain’s cutting rugs at the ballroom on Main Street
Abel’s in a boxcar heading east

Seven years of bad luck, child
But honey, I can keep you from harm
Just take that broken piece of glass
And carve my name into your arm
One brother in the dirt
Another on the run
A backroom in Tulsa
Is where it all begun

Don’t bother getting a doctor
What we need here is a priest
Cain’s cutting rugs at the ballroom on Main Street
Abel’s in a boxcar heading east

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from Backroom In Tulsa, released July 31, 2012
Written and Produced by Wesley Morgan

Daniel Fabricant = Bass
Finn Kelly = Piano
David Phillips = Pedal Steel
Wesley Morgan = Guitar and Vocals
Aaron Kierbel = Drums & Percussion

Recorded and Mixed by Oz Fritz at Tiny Telephone, San Francisco CA
Co-Produced by Adam Theis

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Wesley Morgan San Francisco, California

Wesley Morgan Performs Swamp Noir which is:
Broken-down blues rolling out of a Saturday night juke joint, and stumbling drunk into Sunday morning redemption. Junkyard swing that is ragged and raw, with melodies that drop off, bend, and crack. Dark lyrics full of charming devils and angels with broken wings.

Tell me little girl, are you a sinner or a saint? Down on your knees, no hint of restraint ... more

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