Hayes Carll

Rowdy Texas tales

by James M. Manheim

posted 6/3/2009

Texan Hayes Carll made a splash last year with “She Left Me for Jesus,” an outrageous little portrait of an apparently religiously unaffiliated redneck who laments, “She says that He’s perfect. How could I compare?” Don Imus is said to have called it the greatest country song ever written, and it goes into territory guaranteed to irk the Religious Right and

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