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    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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lyrics

He's the one they always talk about
The name that's always thrown around
the best that ever held a steering wheel

straw hat feather cowboy crown
the king of going round and round
If you're out in front he's nipping at your heels
And with all the races that he's won
All the tires he must've spun
It no wonder folks'll still go on about him

Cho:

But for 26 laps, in the spring of 1960….
I had him behind me
Right there in my mirror
that red white and blue stp
And if it wasn't for that number 43
I could've been the king


I held him off through every turn
my tires were bald and my brakes were burned
and I took everything ol' 21 could give

he was Comin' up the inside fast
I knew he was gonna try to pass
But I got down low and kept there behind me
The last time we came around turn 4
He'd finally got me door to door
And the paper Clip had turned into a drag race


CHO

Bridge
And I drove it like a demon on final death wish drag
And I know I almost had him, 'till *just* before we crossed that checkered flag

Cho(ins?)

I crossed the line in 2nd place
The day Petty won his 2nd race
and since then he's won a hundred ninety eight more

And I like to think I did pretty well
Raced him tight and gave him hell
But he probly don't think about me anymore

But there's times At night that I stil dream
And I still hear those pistons scream
And in my mirror I still see that petty blue

And I'm crossing the line in the spring of 1960

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

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