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    "Living Ever-Lovin' LIVE" is a collection of live performances from 2009. Pat plays solo and in collaboration with good friends including Abbie Gardner, Toby Walker, Stephanie Corby, David Glaser, and Carl Cacho.
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lyrics

The smoke rolls in from Mexico
Where the fires burn sweet and slow
Must seem like hell down there below
Below this bordertown

The dust swirls up around my feetT
he streets are silent in the heat
But there's a steady, strong heartbeat
To this bordertown

I'm just a rambler passing through
But towns like this are nothing new
I'm from East, by the endless blue

Waiting for the sound of a train rolling down the track
The ticket in my hand, the sun beating on my back

Where lazy boys drink lone star beer
And feign machismo to hide their fear
That they've been marked like branded steer
Marked by this bordertown

Like snakes by day they hang around
But at night they'll be Southland bound
To where that easy love is found
South of this bordertown

I know that longing and the strain
As muscles work to break the chain
But freedom's difficult to gain

Waiting for the sound of a train rolling down the track
The ticket in my hand, the sun beating on my back

The tired sun starts sinking slow
I hear that lonesome whistle blow
My signal that it's time to go
Go from this bordertown

I grab my bag and my guitar
Climb aboard the third class car
My cigarette a shooting star
Across this bordertown

I love the sound of a train rolling down the track
The town that lies ahead, the never looking back

credits

from Living Ever​-​Lovin' Live, released December 9, 2009
Written by Carl Cacho (Back Holler Music / ASCAP)

PW: vocal, lap slide guitar
Carl Cacho: rhythm guitar
Stephanie Corby: vocals
David Glaser: vocals, octave mandolin
Neale Eckstein: bass

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Pat Wictor Brooklyn, New York

Grounded in rural blues and gospel traditions, Pat Wictor's lean, poetic songs and expressive guitar playing are seasoned with jazz, pop, improvisational surprise, and philosophy. He first gained attention as an acoustic lap slide guitarist, and a sought-after collaborator and session musician. His evolving projects push his own musical boundaries ever outward ... more

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