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‘Well Bill’ is a song about moving on, aging out, facing the urge to recapture an old glory, re-invoke an old vitality, or live up to an old potential.

Rather than trying to out-do the person you used to be, it’s about trying to reconcile with change and liberate yourself from the past.

This song grew into the centerpiece of the ‘acid western cycle’, a series of songs Shanny + Alex McKay (Cutouts) started recording in 2020.

‘Well Bill’ is the first to see the light of day.

As far as the idea behind the lyrics, Alex remarks, “I remember I was watching ‘The Shooting,’ a 1966 Western starring Jack Nicholson and Millie Perkins. In the first quarter of the film, Nicholson's slow-witted rancher sidekick Coley sings a few bars of an unknown song absentmindedly, as he’s saddling up a horse. ‘Well Bill, you can have my saddle.’”

Written by
Laura Searles-Mohale

‘Well Bill’ is a song about moving on, aging out, facing the urge to recapture an old glory, re-invoke an old vitality, or live up to an old potential.

Rather than trying to out-do the person you used to be, it’s about trying to reconcile with change and liberate yourself from the past.

This song grew into the centerpiece of the ‘acid western cycle’, a series of songs Shanny + Alex McKay (Cutouts) started recording in 2020.

‘Well Bill’ is the first to see the light of day.

As far as the idea behind the lyrics, Alex remarks, “I remember I was watching ‘The Shooting,’ a 1966 Western starring Jack Nicholson and Millie Perkins. In the first quarter of the film, Nicholson's slow-witted rancher sidekick Coley sings a few bars of an unknown song absentmindedly, as he’s saddling up a horse. ‘Well Bill, you can have my saddle.’”

Written by
Laura Searles-Mohale

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