Hayes Carll is releasing a new album, What It Is. He has released the first single with lyrics built around two icons on a velvet painting, “Jesus and Elvis.”
The new track brings in a number of country music tropes. The singer references a son lost in a war, whiskey, redemption, Christmas lights, and a bar with a velvet painting of “the king of kings and the king of rock and roll.”
We do not learn much about the characters in the song, except that the singer seems to find comfort only in the bar, drowning in alcohol, beneath “Jesus and Elvis.” Check it out.
Hayes Carll‘s album on Dualtone Records, What It Is, hits stores and the Internet on Febuary 15, 2019.
