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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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lyrics

Well I swear the gun went off before I even pulled the trigger
The blood was on his face and hands and then I saw him stagger
He took two steps to the right then he went down on his knees
I was looking at his eyes but he was looking right past me

Chorus
Old times shall not be forgotten
And there’s no tree that won’t fall someday

He stared right at that picture hanging right there on the wall
It was the picture of the two of us in front of Ruby Falls
He took me there in ’93 though he didn’t want to go
He was afraid of being underground down in a deep dark hole

Chorus

He stared right at that picture til he didn’t blink no more
His soul had left his body and his body found the floor
The salt and pepper shakers that we got our wedding day
Set on the kitchen table up above him where he lay

Chorus

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I just left him laying there right on my kitchen floor
His blood spilled on the tile that he laid 9 years before
The blood that pooled around him may not wash away my sins
But I’ll be damned if he’s ever gonna touch my girl again

Chorus x 3

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

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