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Dead End Diner

from Old Angel by The Lost Dogs

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    Old Angel, the latest project from the Lost Dogs (Terry Taylor, Mike Roe, Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong) is a 15-song audio travelogue of the group's pilgrimage down Route 66— and may very well be their crowning achievement. Every song on this new record is a snapshot out the RV window. Some are blurry, some are faded, but all bear the yellowed patina of something like grace.

    A wide-ranging musical palette of muscular modern rock tinged with old-timey Americana flavors reflects the ever-changing landscape as we tour the broken heartland with four master musicians and storytellers. The superlative songwriting from all four members, at times bordering on literature, covers an expansive time frame of American history from the Old West through the Great Depression to the day before yesterday. We are introduced to a diverse congregation of characters along this 2500-mile road trip: wandering Okies, homeless hobos, hope-filled Navajo children, brokenhearted waitresses and the legendary heroes of our common history. It’s an album of Polaroids, full of friends, family and otherwise unfamiliar faces, but by the end of the book, we know every story by heart.

    The trip down what’s left of America’s Main Street is equal parts wonder and squalor and the Santa Monica Pier is no New Jerusalem but these boys share the adventure like a family slideshow carousel. Through one of their finest musical efforts in a career full of high notes, they help us find the joy in our journeys. Sure, the dust storms and potholes leave us weathered and sore and the gaudy kitsch almost turns nostalgia into parody but those who have ears to hear and eyes to see glimpse the ghosts of former glories around every broken bend in the old highway.

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lyrics

(Terry Scott Taylor)

Down at the Dead End Diner
Obama’s on the radio

Dinah’s workin’ at the Diner
And trouble’s in the kitchen with her
Life’s grease and grills and unpaid bills
And favors from the babysitter
Ain’t no break time for her regrets
Just more coffee and cigarettes

Dinah, workin’ at the Diner
Daydreams of leavin’ Tucumcari
And a California rich man
She’ll meet and one day marry
For now its cut-backs and part time workin’
And an ex who’s just a deadbeat jerk, yeah

It’s fee fie fiddly-i-o
Fee fie fiddly-i-ay
At the Dead End Diner
Dinah plans her get away

Dinah’s workin’ at the Diner
And for 33 she ain’t bad lookin’
Flirts with a good ol’ boy who might enjoy
More than what she’s got cookin’
He’s sorta handsome in an ugly way
And she’s almost sure that he ain’t gay

Hey, it’s fee fie fiddly-i-ay
Fee fie fiddly-i-o
Down at the Dead End Diner
The heart calls in an order to

Go out to the interstate by way of old 66
Far away from the blues plate specials
And the loose change tips

Dinah’s workin’ at the Diner
And California ain’t much better
Same old deal in Bakersfield
They got the same hot damn weather
She’s been thinkin’ ‘bout her Mama and friends
And maybe goin’ home again

Fee fie fiddly-i-o
Fee fie fiddly-i-ay
Another Dead End Diner
Where no one ever gets away
Fee fie fiddly-i-ay
Fee fie fiddly-i-o
Down at the Dead End Diner
Obama’s on the radio…
Here’s my money…
Keep the change honey…
Obama’s on the radio

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from Old Angel, released March 13, 2012

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