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Tough Little Rebel

from New Frontier​/​Ancient Slab by M.X. Turner

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The actor Linda Manz passed earlier this year. She starred in my favorite movie, Days of Heaven, narrating the film with a teenager’s wits, smarts and unbelievable street-smart composure. Fiddle by Marie-Isabelle Pautz (T-Marie & Bayou Juju, Swamp Blossoms).

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Her and her brother
it just used to be her and her brother
now all three of them been going places
looking for things, searching for things
Going on adventures

They used to have fun
they used to run the back alleys
But then she felt them cold hands
touching the back of her neck

You know how people are
you tell ‘em something, they start talking
sometimes she felt old like she ain’t around no more
she burned bright as a punk in those fields of wheat
she’d tell you she was a tough little rebel

But then she got forgot in the shuffle
disappeared into a California valley
she married a man who made magic with a lens
took her calls down at the Texaco station

You have half-angel and half-devil in you
nobody's perfect…never a perfect person around
maybe the dead were coming for her
maybe Blackjack making those sounds
I think maybe that was Blackjack

She turned her back on gilded dreams
that trampled others and their Hollywood schemes
Pictures of people suffering, their tongues hangin’ out
wondering what that first locust means

This girl, she didn’t know where she was going
or what she was gonna do
Maybe she’d meet up with a character



I was hoping that things would work out for her

She was a good friend of mine

She was a good friend of mine

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from New Frontier​/​Ancient Slab, released November 5, 2021
Marie-Isabelle Pautz: fiddle
M.X. Turner: acoustic guitar, bass, piano, vocals

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M.X. Turner New Orleans, Louisiana

M.X. Turner has been playing and releasing records since the 1980s. Loud, passionate and wide-ranging, Turner's albums take on the system and mend the heart. Turner has played with The Service, Bad Manners, The Devil's Advocates, Diet Tribes, The Spunk Lads, RebelMart and South Sound Tug & Barge. New Frontier/Ancient Slab is his first solo album in a quarter-century. ... more

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