Biography:
Jason Boland & The Stragglers is a Country Music quintet formed in 1998 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, home of Red Dirt music. Their music is iconic of the Red Dirt sound such as Cross Canadian Ragweed, Stoney Larue, Bob Childers and others.
The Stragglers are Harrah, Oklahoma native Jason Boland (lead, guitar), Roger Ray (pedal steel, lead/rhythm guitar), Brad Rice (drums/backing vocals), and Grant Tracy (bass). Additional record contributions goes to Noah Jeffries on banjo, mandolin, and guitar.
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Other songs:
- Alright
- Backslider Blues
- Cant Figure How
- Change In The Weather
- Comal County Blue
- Dark And Dirty Mile
- Dinosaur
- Down Here On Earth
- Drinkin Song
- Fences
- Gallo De Cielo
- Grandfathers Theme
- Hard Times Are Relative
- Heart As Big As Texas
- Hope You Make It
- I Dont Deserve You
- If I Ever Get Back To Oklahoma
- If You Wanna Hear A Love Song
- Lucky I Guess
- Ludlow
- Mary
- Mary Ellens Greenhouse
- No One Left To Blame
- Obsessed
- Odd In Denver
- Outlaw Band
- Proud Souls
- Purple Rain Rocketman Medley
- Rich Young Dumb Nymphomaniac
- Roadside Prayer
- Sangria Wine
- See You When I See You
- Seven Spanish Angels
- Shot Full Of Holes
- Somewhere Down In Texas
- Song For You
- Tennessee Whiskey
- The Devil Pays In Gold
- They Took It Away
- Truckstop Diaries
- When Im Stoned
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Capo 2
[Intro]
G Em D C
[Verse]
G
No doubt the prayers of my mother
Em D
Have taken me aways down the line,
C G
And I'd swear the life of my sister,
D
Well she's brighter than the sun when she shines.
G
And I have been baptised in water,
Em D
I have been baptised in fire
C G
And I've knelt with both hands on the altar
D C G
And I've even sang in the choir.
Em C G
There've been forks in the road when I've had to choose...
D C D G
I pray He'll forgive me for singin' the backslider blues.
[Chorus]
C G
Yeah the backslider blues ain't a hard song to sing.
Em C G D
You know right from wrong, you just don't do a thing.
C G
Stand there alone, feelin' battered and bruised,
Em D C
Singin' the backslider blues. -
[Instrumental]
G Em D G
[Verse]
G
From the stained glass light of the chapel,
Em D
To the neon haze of the bar.
C G
From the wine of holy communion,
D
To the liqour that's left me the scars.
G
From the Bible that sets on my dresser,
Em D
To the clothes strung all 'cross the floor.
C G
From the prayers from my friends when they need me,
D C G
To the times that I've ran out the door.
Em C G
Been taken by surprise by some women and rouge,
D C D G
And I pray He'll forgive me for singin' the backslider blues.
[Instrumental]
D G Em C G D C G Em D C
[Verse]
G
And I hope that we can all make it
Em D
To the place where true freedom rings
C G
And I pray that they have us some guitars
D
So we can walk through the red buds and sing.
G
Never know when you're out on life's highway,
Em D
Gabriel might pull up to you.
C G
He'll say "Child, climb in and ride shotgun
D C G
And we'll see what this big rig can do".
Em C G
There'll be nothin' more to say and nothin' left to lose.
D C D G
He'll have forgotten when we sang the backslider blues.
[Chorus]
C G
Yeah the backslider blues ain't a hard song to sing.
Em C G D
You know right from wrong, you just don't do a thing.
C G
Stand there alone, feelin' battered and bruised,
Em D C G D G
Singin' the backslider blues. I'm just singin' the backslider blues.
[Outro]
G Em D G
[Intro]
G Em D C
[Verse]
G
No doubt the prayers of my mother
Em D
Have taken me aways down the line,
C G
And I'd swear the life of my sister,
D
Well she's brighter than the sun when she shines.
G
And I have been baptised in water,
Em D
I have been baptised in fire
C G
And I've knelt with both hands on the altar
D C G
And I've even sang in the choir.
Em C G
There've been forks in the road when I've had to choose...
D C D G
I pray He'll forgive me for singin' the backslider blues.
[Chorus]
C G
Yeah the backslider blues ain't a hard song to sing.
Em C G D
You know right from wrong, you just don't do a thing.
C G
Stand there alone, feelin' battered and bruised,
Em D C
Singin' the backslider blues. -
[Instrumental]
G Em D G
[Verse]
G
From the stained glass light of the chapel,
Em D
To the neon haze of the bar.
C G
From the wine of holy communion,
D
To the liqour that's left me the scars.
G
From the Bible that sets on my dresser,
Em D
To the clothes strung all 'cross the floor.
C G
From the prayers from my friends when they need me,
D C G
To the times that I've ran out the door.
Em C G
Been taken by surprise by some women and rouge,
D C D G
And I pray He'll forgive me for singin' the backslider blues.
[Instrumental]
D G Em C G D C G Em D C
[Verse]
G
And I hope that we can all make it
Em D
To the place where true freedom rings
C G
And I pray that they have us some guitars
D
So we can walk through the red buds and sing.
G
Never know when you're out on life's highway,
Em D
Gabriel might pull up to you.
C G
He'll say "Child, climb in and ride shotgun
D C G
And we'll see what this big rig can do".
Em C G
There'll be nothin' more to say and nothin' left to lose.
D C D G
He'll have forgotten when we sang the backslider blues.
[Chorus]
C G
Yeah the backslider blues ain't a hard song to sing.
Em C G D
You know right from wrong, you just don't do a thing.
C G
Stand there alone, feelin' battered and bruised,
Em D C G D G
Singin' the backslider blues. I'm just singin' the backslider blues.
[Outro]
G Em D G
Jason DeVore
Jason Downs
Jason Dunn
Jason Dy
Jason Fernandez