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Willie Nelson Is President

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

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A cover of Texas songwriter Mandolin Hooper’s (Mandolin Hooper & The Shadowland Rats) brilliant alt-reality account of a nation where Willie Nelson is president. This was recorded for a birthday-tribute collection and borrows New Orleans second-line call-and-response rhythms and vocals.

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Somewhere high in all our dreams
An outlaw is the king of kings
Every drug’s been legalized
See the Red Head Stranger’s eyes
Patsy Cline’s back on the air
The only dance to do is square
It’s heaven here for you and I
Hill Country’s blazing skies
I wanna live in a world where
Waylon, Johnny, Hank alive
two lanes and a day’s drive
We’ll all meet up with our guitars
a honkytonk rise from this bar
If we lived in a world where
Vote Guy Clark for VP
Half the shit taken off TV
Shiner Bock in every store
Tejano desperados roar
Pall Mall straight in every hand
A pedal steel in every band
All the cowboy boots you want
enough to fill the Astrodome
I wanna live in a world where
Waylon’s always free for beer
Immigrants are free from fear
We’ll all meet up with our guitars
a honkytonk rise from this bar
If we lived in a world where
Memphis might come back to life
Austin woulda never died
Lonestar State love nationwide
We’d auction off Los Angeli
Forget what we’d have done today
gulp down Jim Beam all we want
Ted Cruz is a low-rent stunt
I wanna live a world where
All highways lead to Luckenbach
With Willie ain’t lookin’ back
We’ll all meet up with our guitars
A honkytonk rise from this bar
If we lived in a world where
If we lived in a world where
I wanna live in a world where
I wanna live in a world where
I wanna live in a world where
you and me in a world where
we’ll fall in love in a world where
no more war in a world where
no more war in a world where
I wanna live in a world where
I wanna live in a world where

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from New Frontier​/​Ancient Slab, released November 5, 2021
M.X. Turner: drums, cowbell, tambourine, handclaps, keyboards, samples, lead and backing 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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