High Lonesome

So, I consider myself to be somewhat of a TGA expert... but yet, people keep pointing out things to me that I did not know... the latest came from High Lonesome... the line "Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her, and I always kinda wished I looked like Elvis" is a reference to the song Round Here by the Counting Crows:

Round Here

"Maria came from nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said shed like to meet a boy who looks like elvis"

Round Here is a really sad song, it is about a girl thinking about killing herself.

oddly enough, it was my friend Marie that noticed this... but she is not on the forum so I get to take credit!

also, there are about a billion songs that are called either "High Lonesome", "High and Lonesome", "High and Lonesome Sound" etc...

so I am sure it is a reference to one of them, I just don't know which!

They can't just do it simple can they, they make us bloody work to find it!

Awesome.....thanks for the information!

god damn man its always so easy once someone points it out, im not a counting crows fan so i would have never figured it out, thanks dude.

That's weird, I always figured the thing about looking like Elvis might have been a reference to something, but I never thought it was so outright.

it just irks me that a friend that I introduced to the band (both as a great cd to listen to and then as cool guys to meet) noticed this before me!

i love there references that they throw in

That's awesome. It seems like every song of theirs has a reference to something in it.

yeah, always keeps you wondering

in Great Expextations, there is a line taken from Bob Seger. "its funny how the night moves, humming a song from 1962" is what brian wrote and i forget the one its based off of, but you cant miss it.

night moves

i hadnt even thought of that
good call

damn

and in navesink banks "all hope abandon, ye who enter here" is from Dante's Inferno

drunken_third wrote:

and in navesink banks "all hope abandon, ye who enter here" is from Dante's Inferno

That's from anywhere and everywhere though

"From Dante's
Divine Comedy. The translation into English by H.F.Cary is
the origin for this English phrase, although he gave it as
the less commonly used 'All hope abandon ye who enter here'.
<blockquote>

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.

Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Such characters in colour dim I mark'd
Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd:
Whereat I thus: Master, these words import.
</blockquote>

Dante Alighieri wrote this allegorical epic
poem between 1306 and 1321. Virgil is the guide who takes the reader
through the author's examination of the afterlife. It travels through
the Inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and the Paradiso
(Heaven)."

There is no doubt that the quote is from Dante originally; but it is such a common phrase now that I agree with Stalls, it is now from everywhere.

The Tarantinos of music!

All of these references are blowing my mind..I missed a lot of them the first time around, sadly.

e6c wrote:

the Counting Crows:

Round Here

"Maria came from nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said shed like to meet a boy who looks like elvis"

I'll have to find that song and check it out. Did they write 'Twice As Hard.'?

Round Here is a GREAT song.

"all hope abandon, ye who enter here"

its also written on some door in the movie, The Boondock Saints

it's so interesting... all this references... really great!

No doubt there's also a reference in High Lonesome to Springsteen's "I'm On Fire."

Gaslight: And at night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet, it's a pretty good song maybe you know the rest.

Springsteen: And at night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.