...more great Texas music....

here: Cross Canadian Ragweed, "17," from their great self-titled "purple" album...
"...The porch swing still looks the same, she probably won't even remember my name, just like she didn't back then...is she married, is she doin' fine, does she know about all the nights I laid awake cryin', just to know her hand...the door opens and I run away, just like the same old clown, you're always seventeen in your hometown..."

11:09: Aaron Watson, "Barbed Wire Halo," boy, does this one ever cut close to home...
"...and today he joined up with Jesus, wearin' shiny pearl snaps..." They buried my grandfather in a pearl snap shirt...