ANYTHING
In love. In the summer. Looking back at both. This cover of Adrianne Lenker’s melancholy masterpiece sprang from some oceanside campfire accordion in the season’s ending twilight.
Calvin (of Cal Humberto, and my nephew) came in, taped his microphone to a wall and delivered the magnificently muttered lead.
Recorded at Brick Hill with Matthias Bossi on Drums, Jon Evans on Bass and Electric Guitars and percussion and the magic board.
Our video was shot in and around Strawberry Lane, Cape Cod.
Adrianne Lenker’s gorgeous original here:
SUFFRAGETTE CITY
This our recasting of Bowie's signature rocker as if sung after a three day bender with the lingering regret and exhaustion that comes from losing one's way back, but still trying to hold on to whoever’s closest at hand, and whatever's left of one's diminishing returns. The bari-sax pops in to quote another train-riding classic while our hero’s last gasp suggests a rally before falling back, catatonic, onto the bare mattress on the top floor of The Celestial Tenement.
Recorded at Brick Hill with Matthias Bossi on Congas and Drums, Jon Evans on Bass, Bruce Abbot on Baritone Saxes, Aaron Mayo on Guitar, and Hum on the Rhodes.
Thanks to Ken Stevens for the dreamy cityscape.
Suffragette City joins our cover of Björk’s Bachelorette as part of our CRIPRings project which will include excursions into songs from Radiohead, The Doobie Brothers, Talking Heads, Genesis, White Stripes, The Man of La Mancha, et al.
Life is such a riddle.
No one wants to hear about how weird and challenging these last few years have been. We all just want to move on. But, wait, what about This or That calamity waiting in the wings? Our new romp reassures us, no matter what, It’ll Be Okay. One part pollyanna, two parts well-will-you-look-at-that, and a dash of bitter reality, this Post-Covid love song tries to keep it positive in the face of the ‘show that must go on!
Right here:
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Lyrics:
Please, please put your phone down, and quick quick quick get over here •• gotta see the sun, the sun is going down now, the sky is actually quite clear. •• Made it through December, we made it through the Spring, we made do with whatever came our way. •• Want us to remember just this one thing: those clouds you see here are here to stay… •• and Things are bound to get stranger still. •• Don’t hold your breath, Don’t close your eyes….Get ready set: this is no surprise. •• It’s gonna suck just a little, in the muck just a little, with some luck just a little, it’ll be okay, it’ll be okay, it’ll be okay....
We’re no longer safe living on the edge. •• The ground keeps shiftin‘, fallin’ into the sea. •• Now here we are high high high up on this ledge. •• The time for geronimoes? it’s way past time…•• We both see the train comin’ down line •• just can’t seem to get out of the way. •• So let’s make some dinner, let’s drink up all the wine before the night slams into the day. •• when Things are bound to get stranger still….Don’t hold your breath, Don’t close your eyes, Get ready set, should be no surprise….•• it’s gonna feel just a little bit surreal just a little, if you deal just a little, it’ll be okay •• It’s gonna seem just a little bit extreme just a little, if you dream just a little, it’ll be okay, it’ll be okay, it’ll be okay, it’ll be okay
It’ll take more than love to set things straight…it’ll make us love the things we hate…it’s gonna be horrendous, it’ll be sublime,…I promise, it’ll it’ll it’ll be okay this time.
I got us front row tickets to The Shit Show, baby. •• You know me, I don’t like to miss a thing. •• Come into the kitchen and take me in your arms. •• Let’s leave all the dishes in the sink. •• cause Things are bound to get stranger still. •• Don’t hold your breath, Don’t close your eyes, Get ready set, this is no surprise….
Open your eyes just a little, Seas’ll rise just a little, move your thighs just a little, it’ll be okay •• Oh me oh my, just a little, we’re gonna fry just a little, you wanna cry just a little? It’ll be okay.
Like a monkey in the middle, you’re a little non-committal, you could try just a little, you know, life is such a riddle...
it’ll it’ll it’ll be okay….just gotta keep tellin’ yourself “it’ll be okay”.
Previous Releases
LIKE…THIS (2023 Remaster)
You can now listen to our first dram pop excursion in all its confused cacophony and accordion-laced splendor without owning the original CD. Released in 2000, the album is a potpourri of song forms and styles, with the feel of a compilation. Stand out : Judy the Chimp
Recorded and mixed by Rob Ignazio, with help from Joe Pisch (drums), Aroldo Arencibia (clarinet), Monica Jagentefl (vocals), Rafael Cordero (vocals), Mark Caudil (violin), Rob Simering (acoustic bass), Sean McHugh (trumpet), Thomas Holden (congas), Jason Jagentefl (guitar), Josh Silverman (vocal), Rob Ignazio (guitars), et al.
Poem for Walk Toward this Moon, by Mimi Allin.
Remastered by Mark A Miller at Radio Valkyrie.
Download : original CD book with lyrics.
