I was just a lad, nearly 22 Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you And now I'm lost, too late to pray Lord I take a cost, oh the lost highway "[2] Although he did not write the song, "Lost Highway" was a natural for Williams, the song's combination of perdition and misogyny sounding "like pages torn from his diary. When I pass by all the people say Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you For a life of sin I have paid the cost [1] Payne wrote hundreds of country songs in a prolific career that lasted from 1941 until his death in 1969. Telephone interview with Mrs. Myrtie Payne (Payne's widow), December 20, 1972; reprinted in Dorothy Horstman, Bob Dylan Roots.com: "Lost Highway (Leon Payne song)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lost_Highway_(Leon_Payne_song)&oldid=967917462, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, In 2009, Willie Nelson recorded it yet again on his album, A version filmed during a rehearsal appears in the, The first song played on every episode of the, This page was last edited on 16 July 2020, at 02:59. On this Lost Highway Hell, I busted loose, I'm lettin go Out on this open road. Which may not make it as adventurous as it appears, but it should still be satisfying all the same to those loyal fans. You started rollin' down that lost highway. Lost Highway has little to do with any country prior to Garth Brooks, a move that makes sense since Garth was the gateway drug to country music for old Bon Jovi fans in the '90s. It's seen as one of Hank's defining records, if not a defining moment in country music, which makes it ironic that it barely dented the charts on release and doubly ironic that it's not even one of Hank's songs. Which isn't necessarily bad, mind you -- Bon Jovi has a flair for commercial craft, knowing how to hit the sweet spot between the mundane and melodic, and there are times on Lost Highway where the group does so again. In 1997, director David Lynch used it as a film title. Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine And a womans lies makes a life like mine Oh the day we met, I went astray I started rolling down that lost highway. But when it comes right down to it, Bon Jovi's self-styled country album has little to do with contemporary country in 2007, either. As Williams' biographer Colin Escott observes, "In recent years, 'Lost Highway' has been the title of several books, a stage show, a record label, and a television series. And a womans lies makes a life like mine He wrote "Lost Highway" on the edge of the road while waiting for a ride. Just another guy on the lost highway, Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine All 38 songs from the Lost Highway (1997) movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Oh the day we met, I went astray It was released in October 1948 on Nashville-based Bullet label. "[2] Williams recorded the song with Fred Rose producing and backing on the session from Dale Potter (fiddle), Don Davis (steel guitar), Zeb Turner (lead guitar), Clyde Baum (mandolin), Jack Shook (rhythm guitar), and probably Ernie Newton (bass). Produced by John Shanks and Dann Huff, the album was recorded at Black Bird Studios, Nashville and NGR Recording, Hollywood. Ironically enough, what hurts is when they really try to fit into the conventions of country -- usually on the rockers, as on the aforementioned "Summertime" and the even-worse Big & Rich duet "We Got It Going On," which manages to cram in every sports-bar cliché into an unpalatable mess, a talent that also emphasizes Jon Bon Jovi's unfortunate tendency to rely on hackneyed imagery -- but when they're just being the smooth, efficient pop crooners they are, Lost Highway is as good as, and no different than, any Bon Jovi album since Keep the Faith. Despite duets with LeAnn Rimes and Big & Rich, despite the occasional fiddle or steel guitar, Lost Highway recalls nothing so much as a latter-day Bon Jovi record in how it balances fist-pumping arena anthems with heavy doses of sentiment. In the early days of Leon Payne's career, he used to travel from one place to another, trying to find jobs wherever he could. "Lost Highway" is a country music song written and recorded by blind country singer-songwriter Leon Payne in 1948. In that regard, it makes perfect sense for Bon Jovi to refashion themselves as a modern country act, because their heartland anthems are as thoroughly middle American as any country artist, and in 2007 country was at the core of mainstream pop music; in other words, the band's fans already have made the crossover, so they wouldn't see this crossover move as crass, just as catching up. Serious country fans know that "Lost Highway" is a Leon Payne-written Hank Williams classic, but even though Bon Jovi's 2007 album shamelessly trades on iconographic country imagery in a bid for a genre-skipping crossover hit, it's designed for those country fans who don't much care about Hank's legend (never mind knowing anything about Leon Payne). Just another guy on the lost highway Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine And a woman's lies makes a life like mine On the day we met, I went astray I started rollin' down that lost highway I was just a lad, nearly twenty two Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you And now I'm lost, too late to pray Lord I paid a cost on the lost highway He is perhaps best known for his hits "I Love You Because", "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart", and for the two songs that Hank Williams recorded: "Lost Highway" and "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me". I started rolling down that lost highway, I was just a lad, nearly 22 Not long after the buried fiddles on "Lost Highway" fade from memory and enough time passes to excuse the bad Toby Keith knockoff "Summertime," it's virtually impossible to distinguish this album anything after 1992's Keep the Faith. The 18 Greatest Revenge Songs of All Time, HOT SONG: 21 Savage x Metro Boomin - "My Dawg​" - LYRICS, NEW SONG: Rod Wave - POP SMOKE - "MOOD SWINGS" ft. Lil Tjay - LYRICS. Serious country fans know that "Lost Highway" is a Leon Payne-written Hank Williams classic, but even though Bon Jovi's 2007 album shamelessly trades on iconographic country imagery in a bid for a genre-skipping crossover hit, it's designed for those country fans who don't much care about Hank's legend (never mind knowing anything about Leon Payne). It's Independence Day On this Lost Highway Hey hey *Guitar Solo* Hey hey Oh patron saint of lonely souls Tell this boy which way to go Guide the car, you got the keys Farewell to mediocrity Kickin off the cruise control And turnin up the radio Got just enough religion Just another guy on the lost highway. Copyright: Writer(s): Leon Payne Lyrics Terms of Use, I'm a rollin stone all alone and lost Hank Williams Jr. refers to the song in his own song All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down), with "I think I know what my father meant, when he sang about a lost highway". It was released in October 1948 on Nashville-based Bullet label.. Payne released his version in October 1948. Lord I take a cost, oh the lost highway, Now boys don't start to ramblin' round Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. On this road of sin are you sorrow bound Once he was in California hitchhiking to Alba, Texas, to visit his sick mother, he was unable to get a ride and finally got help from The Salvation Army. Lost Highway is the tenth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on June 8, 2007 in the US through Island Records. "Lost Highway" is a country music song written and recorded by blind country singer-songwriter Leon Payne in 1948. 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