Dirt In The Ground

by The Distilled-Spirit Rebellion

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Nothin' says country to these here crooked cowboys like Tom Waits?

Here's our take on his early '90's tune off of Bone Machine.....it tackles, really, the only important topic to us all.....our mortality.

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Dirt In The Ground
(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) Copyright Jalma Music

What does it matter, a dream of love
Or a dream of lies
We’re all gonna be in the same place
When we die
Your spirit don’t leave knowing
Your face or your name
And wind through you bones
Is all that remains
And we’re all gonna be
We’re all gonna be
Just dirt in the ground

The quill from a buzzard
The blood writes the word
I want to know am I the sky
Or a bird
‘Cause hell is boiling over
And heaven is full
We’re chained to the world
And we’re all gonna pull
And we’re all gonna be
…Just dirt in the ground

Now the killer was smiling
With nerves made of stone
He climbed the stairs
And the gallows groaned
And the people’s herts were pounding
They were throbbing, they were red
As he swung out over the crowd
I heard the hangman said
We’re all gonna be…
Just dirt in the ground

Now cain slew Abel
He killed him with a stone
The sky cracked open
Ant the thunder groaned
Along a river of flesh
Can these dry bones live?
Ask a king or a beggar
And the answer they’ll give
Is we’re all gonna be
Yeah yeah
We’re all gonna be just
Dirt in the ground

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released April 4, 2018
Dirt In The Ground (Tom Waits)
THE DISTILLED-SPIRIT REBELLION
100 Proof Backwoods Blend

Nazel Pickens - vocals, guitar
Mike O’Donnell - drums
Benji - bass
Jimmy MacLeod - guitar, vocals
Lob Strilla - banjo
John Stiemert - keys
Cotton and Cherry Pickens - vocals

Recorded (2-1-17)
LIVE @ THE SWAMP HOUSE, WILLIAMS, OR

produced by Nazel Pickens and Mike O’Donnell
mixed and engineered by Nazel Pickens and Mike O’Donnell
D.I.Y. - OFF THE GRID (2018)

P.O. Box 316 Williams, OR 97544
nazelpickens@gmail.com
distilledspiritrebellion.bandcamp.com

Released: Friday, April 6th, 2018

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The Distilled-Spirit Rebellion Williams, Oregon

The Distilled-Spirit Rebellion:

Nazel Pickens - vocals, guitars

Mike O’Donnell - drums

Chris Raymoure - bass

Jimmy MacLeod - guitar, vocals

Fred Epping - pedal steel

John Stiemert - keys

Lob Strilla - banjo, fender rhodes, additional guitars ... more

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