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Not The Losing Kind

by The Great Western Tears

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I remember driving towards Vegas across that big old desert and seeing the Luxor beam piercing the night sky, reeling you in from miles out, Bonn Scott shrieking Sin City. Liquor and beautiful women waiting in the shadows. No sleep tonight. But gambling? I’m no gambling man, a rambling man undoubtedly. The little money I have is staying with me for liquor and those women.

That resonator line finds me out in the Mojave watching the sun cast queer shadows on the rocks. Contorted faces and giant birds appearing in the dusk quietening. I’ve gambled on love and on rides across the country and there’s nothing better than winning a girl as real as Vegas is a mirage, a trick of the light and a sleight of hand waiting to unburden your wallet and leave you waking broke, hungover and keen as hell to jump in the car and drive straight back to those cold Pacific breakers.

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released January 10, 2016

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The Great Western Tears Oxford, UK

The Great Western Tears make country and folk music – the real sort that’s played loud in the bar and felt deep in the bones, the sort that’s played by Old Crow Medicine Show, Steve Earle, First Aid Kit and Willie Nelson. It’s a universal language spoken from Nashville to Stockholm to Oxfordshire to the wilds of Tasmania. ... more

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