Cadillac Jack’s #1 Son CD (SH6029)
produced by Garry Tallent
recorded October 1995
released February 1998
Recorded before Kevin signed with Shanachie, some of these tracks appeared on the Motherlode limited-edition E.P., “Illinois 5 a.m.”.
“Fast Train”, a song written with frequent collaborator Gwil Owen, was also recorded by Sonny Burgess, one of the original rock n’ roll artists who recorded for Sun in the 1950s.
The title song was covered by Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, for their “Messin’ with the Blues” CD.
Tracks 5 and 8 both appeared in the soundtrack for the major motion picture “White River Kid”.
Producer Garry Tallent is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. Fellow E Street bandmember, the late Danny Federici, played organ on two tracks, “Lucy & Andy”, and “Evan Pick Up the Line”.
 Cadillac Jack’s #1 Son CD (SH6029)
produced by Garry Tallent
recorded October 1995
released February 1998
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track listing:
(click on song titles for lyrics/other info)
1/ Company Car
Riding slow from bar to bar
In my friend’s new company car
Through the backstreets
Where the land meets the river
Gotta keep it out of sight
Talk is small and this town is tight
And the boss knows where you are
Where you park your company car
Shining in the sun she’s a Detroit diamond
Automatic, powerglide
Horses rumbling under the hood
His uncle’s name on the side
He tells you you’ll go far
Behind the wheel of a company car
Passing houses so serene
Tall trees and front porch swings
We swore this place was a disgrace
Years younger
Calling out somebody’s name
A wave from a window frame
Makes him feel like a neighborhood star
Windows down in a company car
We got longnecks sweating on the floor
Four down, gonna crack a couple more
Gotta keep those bottles down low
At the red light
Stopped still, there’s not a sound
Shadows grow on this tumbleweed town
He tells you you’ll go far
Behind the wheel of a company car
written by: Kevin Gordon, ©1996
(Little Rain Music(BMI))
2/ Fast Train
You were rich as a Rockefeller
Yes you had it made
French champagne, sweet cocaine
Cocktails in the shade
You went bust with your daddy’s trust fund
And now it’s a brand new game
But there ain’t no fast train coming
Gonna take away the blameShe was yours when you were young
A long long time ago
She went her way, you went yours
And that’s the way it goes
It’s okay to lie awake
Thinking how things might’ve been
But there ain’t no fast train coming
Gonna bring her back againAin’t no fast train coming tearing up the track
Smoking ‘round the mountain gonna
Bring it all back
You just ain’t gonna see that kingdom come
Take one last long look now
In the evening’s dying light
But there ain’t no fast train coming
Gonna make everything all rightNow you’re old and gray on a crooked cane
And your walk is stiff and slow
Spend your sunny days on the back porch
Thinking ‘bout long ago
You can almost smell the roses
In your blushing bride’s bouquet
But there ain’t no fast train coming
Gonna bring back yesterdaywritten by: Kevin Gordon/Gwil Owen, ©1995
(Little Rain Music(BMI)/Turgid Tunes(BMI))
3/ Pauline
4/ Lucy & Andy Drive to Arkansas
5/ Blue-Collar Dollar
6/ Dissatisfied
Driving by the big estates out on the boulevard
In a blown-out ride, rattling between
The perfect yards
My wife’s in a trance, staring at all that romance
Big money can provide
She don’t say a word but I know she’s dissatisfiedDissatisfied—
Behind a rusty door
Dissatisfied
Like she was born for more
Baby wants a house on a hill
And a pony she can ride
She ain’t got it
She’s just dissatisfiedThere’s a certain house
She likes to call her home sweet home
I just catch a glimpse through a iron fence
Of a wall of stone
She likes to pretend we could pull right in
And those big gates would open wide
It’s a harmless game
But it leaves her dissatisfiedBack across the tracks
We stop for gas and cigarettes
She buys a pack of gum and that magazine
She always gets
Where the movie stars and their bodyguards
Take moonlight limousine rides
It makes her smile
I know she’s dissatisfiedDissatisfied—
Behind a rusty door
Dissatisfied
Like we were born for more
Baby wants a house on a hill
And a pony she can ride
She ain’t got it
She’s just dissatisfiedwritten by: Kevin Gordon/Gwil Owen, ©1995
(Little Rain Music(BMI)/Turgid Tunes(BMI))
7/ Over the Levee
8/ Looking for the Killerman
9/ Cadillac Jack’s #1 Son
Daddy sells Caddies down on Grand Avenue
He walks that hot asphalt in his new white shoes
Trying to talk another fool into that two-door on the corner
It ain’t ever run, and it ain’t ever gonna
Doctoring odometers, forging inspections
They’ll never land my pappy in the house of correctionsI’m Cadillac Jack’s #1 son
Dirty hands get the dealing down
I’m just a chip off the busted block
I’m Cadillac Jack’s #1 sonI wrapped his Eldorado ‘round a telephone pole
Landed safe in the cuffs of the state patrol
There was fire on my breath and blood on the wheel
Bright lights in my face, hey what’s the big idea
Daddy knows the D.A. will see it our way
A stack of cash can surely save . . .Don’t the blood run thicker than the law when you’re on the brink
The things you do for love or hate–you don’t stop to thinkThere’s a woman I know, used to treat me kind
And the baby she’s rocking in her arms is mine
I can’t live by no restraining order
I’m gonna grab that kid, gonna break for the border
We’ll be just a couple gringos down in Mexico
South of Matamoros ain’t nobody gonna know . . .written by Kevin Gordon
©1994 Write Road Music(BMI)
10/ Junior’s Guitar
11/ Evan Pick Up the Line
I’m looking for that guy with the alligator claw
Talking Good-Time Jesus, chain-smoking Pall Malls
That wild boy rambler once was a friend of mine
We’d buy cheap six-packs at the Conoco
Drink them outside the bar, couldn’t pay the cover
Passing out wherever the party died
Evan pick up the lineFrom Oak Grove to Amherst to NYC
Walking in the waves down a Provincetown beach
What’s that in your shadow, who’re you trying to lose
I had a number on you two years ago—
Colorado, you’d already blown
Your light on the wind, she wails, and you ride
Evan pick up the lineOld books and bars
Out-of-tune guitars
Wind through a fast car flying–
I feel something dying
Are we so different now?Now I’m back home playing to an empty room
Old friends’ faces left are few
The old scene’s a goner
And the new one’s not mine.
I hear you’re down in the quarter,
I’m in this Monroe hotel
Overlooking bombed-out downtown’s hell
I need you brother, and a cold one,
And a long ride—
Evan pick up the linewritten by Kevin Gordon
©1994 Write Road Music(BMI)
12/ Heaven & the Hanging Tree
