Yea so I'm on my lunch break, been listening to this snuck a google search for "New South Break" when my employers weren't looking.
I think he's referring to the colonization of New South Wales but it's weird because he mentions listerine (not sure if it was around then). Also don't know if the indigenous drank tequila but maybe they drank shitty liquor or maybe that's what was imported.
But the listerine who knows he could have a meaning maybe so maybe not.
@bkabbott Uh, hell-o. The song is most certainly NOT about the colonization of Australia! It IS about a tour of Australia that he did with the late great Justin Townes Earle. It was back in the days of JIs booze and dope addiction (and JTE was if anything worse) and in the song he mentions that the coke was crap and way overpriced and the tequila was so bad that even legendary hell raiser Waylon Jennings wouldn't drink it. It is really a touring dialogue, and of wanting to get back home. But all the shit he and JTE...
@bkabbott Uh, hell-o. The song is most certainly NOT about the colonization of Australia! It IS about a tour of Australia that he did with the late great Justin Townes Earle. It was back in the days of JIs booze and dope addiction (and JTE was if anything worse) and in the song he mentions that the coke was crap and way overpriced and the tequila was so bad that even legendary hell raiser Waylon Jennings wouldn't drink it. It is really a touring dialogue, and of wanting to get back home. But all the shit he and JTE went thru on the tour is redeemed by the last verse "but I swear the land it listened to the stories that we told/God bless the busted boat that brings us back." C'mon man, why in Gods green earth would Jason write a song about colonization of a country 10,000 miles from his Alabama Pines?"
Yea so I'm on my lunch break, been listening to this snuck a google search for "New South Break" when my employers weren't looking.
I think he's referring to the colonization of New South Wales but it's weird because he mentions listerine (not sure if it was around then). Also don't know if the indigenous drank tequila but maybe they drank shitty liquor or maybe that's what was imported.
But the listerine who knows he could have a meaning maybe so maybe not.
@bkabbott Uh, hell-o. The song is most certainly NOT about the colonization of Australia! It IS about a tour of Australia that he did with the late great Justin Townes Earle. It was back in the days of JIs booze and dope addiction (and JTE was if anything worse) and in the song he mentions that the coke was crap and way overpriced and the tequila was so bad that even legendary hell raiser Waylon Jennings wouldn't drink it. It is really a touring dialogue, and of wanting to get back home. But all the shit he and JTE...
@bkabbott Uh, hell-o. The song is most certainly NOT about the colonization of Australia! It IS about a tour of Australia that he did with the late great Justin Townes Earle. It was back in the days of JIs booze and dope addiction (and JTE was if anything worse) and in the song he mentions that the coke was crap and way overpriced and the tequila was so bad that even legendary hell raiser Waylon Jennings wouldn't drink it. It is really a touring dialogue, and of wanting to get back home. But all the shit he and JTE went thru on the tour is redeemed by the last verse "but I swear the land it listened to the stories that we told/God bless the busted boat that brings us back." C'mon man, why in Gods green earth would Jason write a song about colonization of a country 10,000 miles from his Alabama Pines?"