Texan songwriter Hayes Carll hit it big several years ago with "She Left Me for Jesus," a funny, churlish tune that won the Americana Music Association's Song of the Year award and that Don Imus called the greatest country song ever written. But there's more to Hayes Carll than that one song. Hayes honed his craft for several years in the bars of the Bolivar Pensinsula near Galveston, and he's accumulated a body of storytelling songs with enough of an edge to cut through the resistance of a tough crowd. With influences from Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, and his mentor Ray Wylie Hubbard, Hayes puts it all together into a fresh, edgy sound that brings honky-tonk music to a new generation. He comes to town with a great new album, "KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)," whose Afghanistan-themed title track suggests a countrified "Subterranean Homesick Blues."