Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and morethat represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State’s borders. Today, we look at the Toadies’ grunge hit, “Possum Kingdom.”
Despite what your Gen X parents swear they remember, no woman was murdered in a grisly fashion near Possum Kingdom Lake outside Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1990s. No guy begged a woman to be his “blushing bride” by the lake. He didn’t promise not to be a gentleman before he dragged her behind the boathouse and dump her body in the lake.
Vaden Todd Lewis, the lead singer of the Fort Worth-founded Toadies, readily admits the story behind “Possum Kingdom” is complete bunk…