Taste Test: The Leavelles learn hard lesson of ‘Wearing Out My Welcome’
The Americana jam band reflect on a life that could have been with a new song.
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Sooner or later, we overstay our welcome. Whether it’s a relationship we try to keep glued together, for better or worse, or a friendship stuck in neutral, we are creatures of habit. Habits keep us chugging along, but the tracks will eventually crack and crumble and our once-relentless forward motion will fly into the brush and gravel. Joe McClour, lead guitarist for The Leavelles, toddled on the edge of a new life in Dallas, along with a youth-kissed romance to-boot. But, soon discovering fruitlessness setting into his bones, he quickly learned the pathway wasn’t as it seemed. “I’ve been living on your couch since the third week of May,” he pops the top on his bluesy traveling tune, owed to band mate Frank Houk’s locomotive harmonica. “Burning up the phone lines / And running up bills,” he spits on the hook, further underlining his then-drifter sensibility. As a fresh stream of steel sweeps out from before him, he barrels far and away from the life that could have been 18 years ago.
“Wearing Out My Welcome” opens the band’s new self-titled EP, out everywhere now.
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