Will T. Massey

Will T. Massey is an amazing singer-songwriter. He is also my cousin and he struggles with schizophrenia.

I have written many posts about Will through the years, including this piece about the last time I saw Will in December 2016. Though he has disappeared back into the woodwork, his powerful and intensely personal songs remain.

Here are the various songs of Will’s that I have posted to the blog with transcribed lyrics and video and/or audio recordings. The songs cover a lot of territory, from his earliest independent cassette releases to his later songs, both released and unreleased.

Early songs from Will T. Massey include tunes from Pickin’, Poker, and Pick-Up Trucks, Kickin’ Up Dust, and Slow Study, released before he signed with MCA and the well-known eponymous first album, Will T. Massey. Several songs listed here were previously unreleased.

Pickin’, Poker, and Pick-Up Trucks

• Old-Fashioned Love
• Old Blue
• Pickin’, Poker, & Pickup Trucks
• The Poolroom
• My Father’s Boots
• A Rose
• Clouds of my Mind

Kickin’ Up Dust

• Then The Lone Star Will Stop Shining
• Hard Working Man
• Half as Lonely
• Cost of Living
• The Dark Side of a Dream
• Fading Away Like My Jeans (co-written by Mark Luke Daniels)
• Waltz Across My Mind (co-written by Mark Luke Daniels)
• That’s Texas
• Road of Roses

Slow Study

• See You Around
• Homeless Heart
• The Hell You Raised
• Highway Hearse
• Slow Study
• Long Distance Love (co-written by Peg Miller)
• I’ll Be Gone
• Closin’ Down My Heart (Last One to Leave)
• A Dying Breed
• The Road That Brought Us Here (CD bonus track)
• Mr. Johnson’s Store

Chicago House “Slow Study” CD release party — 9-9-89

• What Heaven’s Worth
• My Old 64
• Mama Never Liked Traveling Songs
• Waiting On You (co-written by Rosie Flores)

Will T. Massey (MCA)

• I Ain’t Here
• Send Up the Smoke
• It’s Midnight All Day Long
• You Take the Town
• Barbed Wire Town
• Coffee Break
• The Bravery to Weep
• A Summertime Graveyard

Post-MCA material

• Tried to Be True
• Old Petal Beneath the Night
• Bus Depot Song

Will’s other songs that I have posted come from much later, spanning his recordings and performances from 2005-2016. Some of theses songs appear on albums released during that time: Letters in the Wind, Wayward Lady USA, and The Weathering. Several of these are previously unreleased, or only released in limited editions.

Acoustic Session

• Blue Shadow

Alone

• Dark World
• Impossible Love (NOT on CD/digital download)

Letters in the Wind

• Later to Live
• Alone With You
• Yesterdays Without You
• Letters in the Wind
• Forever in Love with You
• Younger Than We Knew
• Something Lost
• I’ll Never Love You Wrong

Wayward Lady, U.S.A.

• A Soldier’s Love (Bring ‘Em Home)
• My American Prayer
• Wayward Lady, U.S.A.
• You Work for Me, Mr. President
• Peace Train

Private CD prerelease

• Too Old To Die Young
• Each Other’s Angel
• Rock & Roll Blue Eyes
• A Brand New Game
• Rainy Day Penny

iPhone

• A Little Bit of a Heartbreaker
• Broken Heart for You
• The Old Crazy Goat
• Playing Hurt
• Roses as You Go
• Drinking for Two
• The Darkness Now
• Cry Home
• Lost Ones
• Turned on a Dime
• I Saw You

The Weathering

• Haunted Eyes
• Sometimes I Sing
• Weird Again
• Poor Girls
• That Isn’t Me Any More
• A Heartbreak Away
• Once Upon Forever
• Out of This World
• The Remembering
• Drunken Cupid
• The Weathering

Live recording

• I Can See Heaven From Here
• Always Working
• High Rollers, Roll My Way
• I Will Take the Wheel
• Goodbye
• The Great Beyond Near
• Hardest Mile
• Always Saying Goodbye
• Last Lover’s Waltz
• The Moon’s Got the Blues Tonight
• I Forgive You, God
• Got to Be All Right
• Long Lonesome Look
• A Little Bit of a Heartbreaker
• For Carlos Casteñeda
• Hard Sell
• Old Survival

30 Years in the Rearview

• In the Wind

Soundcloud account

• Playing Hurt
• Little Boom Tonight
• Marijuana Memories

Incomplete/incorrect lyrics

• I’ve Been Called

I will continue to add to this list on a regular basis, as I want to make sure that Will’s amazing legacy of song does not fade away.