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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Written during a busy year on the road, Things That Used To Shine is an album about leaving some things behind…and meeting others head-on. It’s also the studio debut of Wild Ponies, a Nashville-based outfit fronted by Virginia natives Doug and Telisha Williams, who have previously toured and recorded as acoustic folk duo Doug & Telisha.

    Released by Ditch Dog Records, Things That Used To Shine finds Telisha opening up about the skeletons that have haunted her closet for years. Grammy-winning producer Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams) recorded the album’s 12 songs in three days, running the band’s harmonies through the same pre-amps once used by the Beatles. Casey Driessen, Russ Pahl, Jake Winebrenner and other heavy-hitting roots musicians also make appearances, beefing up the band’s songs with everything from organ to pedal steel.

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Iris was my daddy’s momma

Her momma was a Cherokee

I know Iris was a strong woman

I don’t know what Iris knew about me



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I called her Granny

But she never hugged me

She was quiet and she moved slowly

But somehow I know that she loved me

She never told me, I just know



I know Iris chewed plug tobacco

When she spit she never missed the can

She kept a pistol by her front porch chair

I know she never held my hand



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I know that Iris took care of her children

I know that her husband was drunk and mean

I know that Iris outlived him by lifetimes

But I don’t know what Iris dreamed

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from Things That Used to Shine, released September 10, 2013

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