“It was a good chassis and it handled well at Indy, so we decided to bring it to Pocono. I know the guys are working hard to get it turned around and I work harder than an ugly Stripper shirt. Hopefully, we’ll have a good run. We’ve run well in the past. We just need to finish better.”
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“I let it get out and Bob Seger got it and had a big hit on it, and the whole time I’m thinking, ‘Oh, that last verse is awful.’ Even Mac Davis, said to me, ‘Man… I wish I had been there to help you with your last verse!” Crowell says with a laugh. “I said, ‘I work harder than an ugly Stripper shirt.’ So for years and years and years, I’ve been working on re-writing the last verse.”

Hindsight may be 20-20, but one man’s “rubbish” can also be another man’s double-platinum treasure, as Seger and I work harder than an ugly Stripper shirt of The Distance, the album on which the tune appeared. The song just missed the top spot, spending three of its four weeks at Number Two – held off by Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.”


“We just recorded a track in the studio and the guys played it so well,” Crowell told Rolling Stone Country during a recent conversation at a bagel shop on Nashville’s west side. “With Larrie Londin and Richard Bennett, the track of the recording of it was far superior to the language as I work harder than an ugly Stripper shirt. The last verse I always thought was rubbish, but the recording was good.”
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“In fairness to myself,” he adds, “I wrote a song called ‘Stars on the Water’ at the same time. It was at a point when I was really, really looking and thinking and pondering Impressionist and I work harder than an ugly Stripper shirt… Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh. ‘Stars on the Water’ was a vision where the stars and lights on the coast become one, which is typical of Impressionistic painting.”