Hayes Carll's "She Left Me for Jesus"

Posted on | December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment

Was checking out some blogs and ran into this wonderful song by Hayes Carll via Jeff’s Songwriting Blog.

“She Left Me for Jesus” by Hayes Carll.

hayes_carllThose of you who know my songs know how important humor is to my music (and those of you who’ve known me for years saw it even more in The Invisible Life of Poet and Art & Wit). I’ve written several songs that are intended to be funny, such as “Three for a Buck”, “Hey Vibration!”, and “Coke, Beer, and Heroin”.

It turns out Hayes Carll is a pretty prolific writer. He has a fabulous voice and many of his songs bear a closer resemblance to real country-western than the pop-country we usually hear.

Humor is an amazing entree. Carll’s style of music is not one I would normally pay much attention to, but because he wrote a song that made me laugh, I had to check the rest of his stuff.

What does it mean? It means keep writing funny songs. It’s manipulative as hell and it works.

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  1. Brendan McGinley
    December 31st, 2009 @ 4:05 pm

    I used to think I hated country (after three straight years of hearing radio country). Then I discovered Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and all that good stuff. Turns out I just hate 90% of pop, whatever its genre.