Gene Watson By Michael Elliott

"Fourteen Carat Mind"

Written by the legendary Dallas Frazier, and with apologies to Steve Goodman, John Prine, and David Allen Coe, this could be the perfect country-and-western song.  The chorus takes it over the top:  “Layin’ by these railroad tracks in Denver / with a hurtin’ head and a haif a pint o’ wine.”  (Yes, you must pronounce it haif for it to work.) I still wonder what became of poor ol’ Willie Jackson.