Based on martinez’s daughter’s experience with a payroll loan company to which she turned over her car title in exchange for cash, not realizing the costs and complications involved. He started thinking about what drives people to take desperate measures, what turns an 8-year-old into someone who grows up to rob a convenience store. “It was too hard to write about my daughter’s episode with a loan shark and ensuing battle with the barb-wired, chain-link repo lot,” martinez explains, “So Kent Finlay and I let an Everyday Joe take a desperately wrong turn during tough times.“
credits
from Purgatory Road,
track released September 15, 2010
Written By: john Arthur martinez & Kent Finlay
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