{"id":926,"date":"2017-01-11T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/?p=926"},"modified":"2017-01-11T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:11:12","slug":"the-devils-address-the-story-behind-the-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/2017\/01\/11\/the-devils-address-the-story-behind-the-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil&#8217;s Address &#8211; the story behind the song"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"470\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=1549595096\/album=1411039729\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well my mother&#8217;s father and my uncle were both truck drivers all their lives but I don&#8217;t drive which kind of sad considering how many times driving features in my songs!<\/p>\n<p>I imagined it as a kind of folkier version of &#8216;Return to Sender&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>The last lines are a straight cop of a Raymond Carver idea in his wonderful poem (Deschutes River) where he ends up trying to disentangle a snagged fishing line and then drops the line about his wife in another man&#8217;s bed&#8230;..pure class..so now you know&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This track was performed wonderfully by Ronny Elliott in a Johnny Cash manner on Moon Over The Downs disc. That has become the definitive version but here my original.<\/p>\n<p>An important track for the reason that it started the whole &#8216;Trailer Star&#8217; concept. The tale of a down and out singing from a mobile home idea is down to this song.<\/p>\n<p>At the time I was just trying to copy typical americana tropes of a letter home and for some reason there some Everley Brothers in the mix.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Devil&#8217;s Address<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in heaven that&#8217;s what the sign says<br \/>\nThis bar&#8217;s more like hell, everything painted red<br \/>\nEvery once in a while a truck goes by headed north<br \/>\nHeadlights flashing across these smoky walls<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find me<br \/>\nPost a letter to &#8216;Happiness&#8217;<br \/>\nMark it care of the devil&#8217;s address<\/p>\n<p>I started driftin&#8217; when I couldn&#8217;t pay the rent<br \/>\nThat mobile home was more like a shed<br \/>\nI spent every winter watching the rain<br \/>\nTurn that gravel path into a lake<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m fine and dandy but I&#8217;m all alone<br \/>\nJust me and the sparkle of the tarmac road<br \/>\nThousand miles behind me, wife&#8217;s in another man&#8217;s bed<br \/>\nThousand miles ahead before I&#8217;ll ever rest<\/p>\n<p>Ronny&#8217;s version \u00a0here:<\/p>\n<p>Ronny&#8217;s website:<a href=\"http:\/\/ronnyelliott.blogspot.co.uk\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/ronnyelliott.blogspot.co.uk\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=648738093\/album=1052185348\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-928\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/carver.jpg?resize=179%2C282&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Well my mother&#8217;s father and my uncle were both truck drivers all their lives but I don&#8217;t drive which kind of sad considering how many times driving features in my songs!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,31,34,12,1,36,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-cassette-tape","category-edinburgh","category-lyrics","category-song","category-story-behind-the-song","category-trailer-star"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7DCHF-eW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}