When I wrote the last verse I realized that the character in the song was in denial about what really went down. I wanted to write a song about some fella who’s stuck in there worried more about his relationship with his partner than his sentence. This song started as just a sad prison song. Even as early as high school, I saw some of my close friends overdose, commit suicide, and often end up serving time in a correctional facility, so naturally incarceration is a topic I sometimes write about. “While I’m Waiting Here” – In Ionia County there are probably more prisons than traffic lights. It’s a song about a regrettable relationship decision. I wanted to write a song that I could play out of that big open A chord like Mac.
TURMOIL AND TINFOIL LYRICS MAC
Among our favorite singers was the voice with a heart: Mac Wiseman. “All Of Tomorrow” – When I was little I heard my Dad singing lots of songs. Sometimes when I was having a rough day I would wander alone by the river and just let the sound of the flowing water calm me down. “Meet Me At The Creek” – I grew up right on the Maple River in Muir, Michigan. “On The Line” – Although in this time on Earth it may strike a political nerve, I wrote this song after I saw an episode of The Phil Donahue Show from 1995 where a bunch of old folks were criticizing Marilyn Manson and some other young rockers about moshpits at concerts. Below that, stream the album in its entirety before its September 22 release date. Strings gave American Songwriter an intimate look at how each of the songs on his new album Turmoil & Tinfoil came to be. The Nashville-based player and songwriter is known for his virtuosic guitar chops and explosive live performances, but, while this latest effort does boast chops and energy in spades, he’s also a talented lyricist, telling honest, often painful tales about addiction, incarceration, racism, and remaining positive in the face of negativity and, of course, turmoil. With that in mind, Billy Strings’ new album Turmoil & Tinfoil is a great roots album. Billy and his band returned for the encore with Strings accompanying his mates on guitar and Walker on mandolin for an otherwise a capella “If Your Hair’s Too Long, There’s Sin Your Heart.” Strings told the crowd, “Maybe some of you hippies might be able to take a little notion from the tune,” before starting the satirical gospel standard in which he changed the lyric “you’ll live a life of fear and dread with a tangled mess upon your head” to “you’ll live a life of fear and dread if you listen to the Grateful Dead.Roots music is at its best when it places greater emphasis on telling powerful stories than it does adhering to any conventional genre boundaries. Billy Strings, bassist Royal Masat, mandolin player Jarrod Walker and banjoist Billy Failing then presented a sequence of “Slipstream” into the traditional “Red Rocking Chair” into Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan” into John Hartford’s “All Fall Down.” Next up were covers of Flatt & Scruggs’ “Doin’ My Time,” Cher’s “Believe” and Gordon Lightfoot’s “10 Degrees & Getting Colder.” The band showed off their improvisational prowess on the “Turmoil & Tinfoil” that closed the frame. The traditional “Little Maggie” opened the group’s final set of the run.
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