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Two-Timin' Jesus

By Thomas Fawcett, October 21, 2008, 2:58pm, Earache!

If there’s an award for funniest local music video, good luck besting Hayes Carll’s “She Left Me for Jesus.” Directed by local animator Dano Johnson, the video features a lascivious Jesus, played by Tim Crane of T-Bird & the Breaks, palling around with the love interest of a jealous beau (local country singer Jesse Dayton). Texas music celebs Jimmy Dale Gilmore and Little Jewford also appear and I, along with several friends, get a split second of face time in the opening montage.

The tune from Carll’s latest release, Trouble In Mind (Lost Highway), recently won Song of the Year at the Americana Music Awards and has been championed by Don Imus (yuck, I know) as the greatest country song ever written. Carll hopes to air the video once on CMT, resulting in a tsunami of outraged letters and the video’s banishment from the airwaves. Godspeed.

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