“She asked one for a dollar/And they said, ‘Sinner, get a job,’” sings Carll with a nearly audible, wry smile before returning to the chorus, and the moral of the story: “This is why y’all can’t have nice things.” After her release, while penniless and on the hunt for a cup of coffee, she passes by an angry mob. While enjoying a toke with a kindhearted old hitchhiker, she gets thrown in jail. ![]() While fishing in Georgia, she reels in an oil barrel. In “Nice Things,” the leadoff track from Hayes Carll’s newly released eighth album, You Get It All, God comes down to Earth in female form to revel in the created world, but from the get-go, things don’t go so well.
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