"Billy Ray Montgomery" is the only song on the new album that doesn't have an accompanying short story. There's a reason for this. It ties in with another song and its story in ways that are hard to explain. But the other story is the more important one. You'll see what I mean.
"Billy Ray Montgomery" began its life as a riff that popped into my head one morning on the way to work. I couldn't get it out of my brain, and it was on a loop from then on, on the way to work, on the way home from work. At some point I started playing a beat to it on my steering wheel. And, well, as good songs do sometimes, it took on a life of its own. One day as I was driving by a particular house (I remember which one), a lyric and its melody popped into my head.
"There's an old man over there / Sittin' on his porch, he ain't goin' anywhere"
That's how I met Billy Ray Montgomery.
This song introduced itself me one afternoon while doing some work at my brother-in-law's house. It started with one line;
"If I had a dollar and fifteen cemts
You'd be riflin' around in my pockets
To pay your rent"
And we were off and running. Over the course of that summer the song built itself in my head, but I did't really get anywhere on it until a few years later when I'd started a particular job. Catching Gears was one of my "steering wheel jam" songs.
Eventually as I worked on other lyrics, I realized it tied in well with an unfinished short story I'd sketched out. That short story was later titled Dulce. It could be said the song is from the perspective of one character in that story, and the short story itself is from the perspective of another.
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