“Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler”, off the new record by Texas singer-songwriter Adam Carroll, has plenty of honky but not a lot of tonk. Adam doesn’t play the hard country that we usually feature on honky-tonk Friday. But this song embodies the spirit of honky-tonk as well as any we’ve ever posted.
The song is about a loner who roams the land getting into and out of trouble, both mortal and of the soul. With lines like “drivin’ down the west coast highway”, “songs out the window was all he had to lose” (can’t you just picture the songs floating out the window?), “cuttin’ heads on the chitlin’ circuit”, and “snorting cocaine off a buck knife” Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler is as timeless as the Oklahoma dust bowl and the howling winds of West Texas.
Buy the new record, Old Town Rock N Roll, here or here at Lone Star Music.
Bonus song – “Alright” from 2005’s Far Away Blues
I wrote about Sarah Borges here, and now she and her band have turned up on the excellent new video series by Sun Studios.
“Daniel Lee”