Word: gettin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong, aggressive attack," and at a time when outlaws like Willie Nelson have mellowed into genteel grandees, Ely is an unreconstructed rowdy. He works the kind of honky-tonk where the patrons would tear the designer label off an urban cowboy's jeans, and songs like / Keep Gettin' Paid the Same and Dam of My Heart (both on the new album) sound gritty and firsthand, not arm's length, the preferred performing distance of contemporary country gentlemen...
...take them across the country and through Christmas, visiting theaters and small halls. "I don't play many beer bars any more," Waits explains. "I used to play exclusively toilets, that's all I wanted to play. But the thing is, you play toilets too long and you start gettin' a little...