I love the lyrics to "Preacher" and have often wondered if this was prompted by a real-life experience. I think the imagary of a woman hanging clothes is so basic to when we were growing up & we all had a mom hanging clothes out on the line. But this song was the first time I ever thought of it as being something sexy, a man sitting & admiring his wife's qualities while she hangs clothes. This song just puts a vision in my head, of a man in a simple home who is very happy with what life has given him. So I wonder, what inspired this song?
-Heather
when i was kid in oklahoma the preachers would come by from the churchs in soper to try and get my dad to come to their paticular church. so i took that memory and created this little tennessee williamslike movie with a senual and religious concflict. i mean you got your full tilt holy rollin' burt lancaster elmer gantry preacher trying his best to convince a paul newman cool hand luke southerner to be saved while a mamie van doren baby doll woman is outside hanging up clothes and well you rhyme all these images and sing it over a slow greasy lightnin hopkins, tony joe white deep groove progression and there you go. in my world as well as the song, mamie seems to win 99 out of 99 times.
-ray wylie
when i was kid in oklahoma the preachers would come by from the churchs in soper to try and get my dad to come to their paticular church. so i took that memory and created this little tennessee williamslike movie with a senual and religious concflict. i mean you got your full tilt holy rollin' burt lancaster elmer gantry preacher trying his best to convince a paul newman cool hand luke southerner to be saved while a mamie van doren baby doll woman is outside hanging up clothes and well you rhyme all these images and sing it over a slow greasy lightnin hopkins, tony joe white deep groove progression and there you go. in my world as well as the song, mamie seems to win 99 out of 99 times.
-ray wylie
No comments:
Post a Comment