“Flatter than a tabletop
Makes you wonder why they stopped here
Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one.”
Thus opens “Levelland,” written and recorded by songwriting great James McMurtry and later recorded by fellow Texas luminary Robert Earl Keen. It is a brilliant song, both in substance and form. There’s no chorus, just four verses. It is filled with the sardonic wit that…
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