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TAKE 2...I've tried fixing the bass in this mix, added a small keyboard part and a tiny bit of vocal harmonies, and attempted adding a drum track of sorts... This was a pretty tough feat since I neglected to play to a click track...oh wellsers.

© 2016 Lyrics and Music by Michèle Lane

May We All Find Our Way [take 2]

PRACTICAL SADNESS                  		                                                                                                               

01 ANYBODY’S BUSINESS
02 IN YOUR ARMS
03 WHAT’S LEFT OF MY HEART
04 IT’S TRUE
05 DEVIL THINK TWICE
06 DYING ON THE DANCE FLOOR
07 WHISKEY MOUTH
08 4TH OF JULY 
09 WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
10 BLUE
* * ALL I EVER WANTED 
 
Music and Lyrics by Kate Tucker and Kenny Childers
Except Anybody’s Business by Kate Tucker, Kenny Childers and Chris Kupersmith 
It’s True by Kate Tucker and Preston Lovinggood
Blue by Kate Tucker
 
Produced by Kate Tucker, Kenny Childers, Mark Watrous and Tom Beaujour 
Engineered by David England, Mark Watrous and Tom Beaujour
Mixed by Tom Beaujour
Except for All I Ever Wanted produced, engineered and mixed by Paul Mahern
 
Vocals – Kate Tucker, Kenny Childers
Guitars - David England, Kenny Childers, Mark Watrous, Kate Tucker, Tom Beaujour
Keys – Mark Watrous
Bass – Kenny Childers
Drums – Freda Love
Percussion – Freda Love, Mark Watrous, Kenny Childers

Except on All I Ever Wanted 
Guitars - Jason Wilber, Kenny Childers 
Keys - Jay Jones 
Drums - Devon Ashley 
 
Photography - Jessie English 

KATE TUCKER is a songwriter, singer and guitarist from Ohio. Growing up in a family of truck drivers, Tucker became acquainted with the American road from an early age. A sense of place, space, home and the vast unknown informs her work in both mood and lyric. Perhaps this frequent travel set in motion what would become her musical history, cutting her teeth in Akron rock clubs, flying across the pond to busk in the streets of Paris, setting off for Seattle to start a band, moving on to NYC, and ultimately landing in Nashville, Tennessee.
 
In what Tucker calls her “hardest year yet,” she made a record that is actually not at all heavy, partly due to the nature in which it was recorded. Low on cash and emotional energy, she decided the only way to lay down anything at all was to think like Lou Reed. “My dear friend Kenny Childers and I had instantly bonded over our love for The Velvet Underground and our favorite thing to do together was pretend we were writing songs for their next record. We didn’t have any specific goal in mind; I knew I was going to make a new album soon, but I didn’t think I’d let myself do it this way.” By this way, Tucker means driving up to Bloomington, Indiana to record ten songs in two days in a basement somewhere in the middle of nowhere with some kind folks she’d never met, including Freda Love, who had taken a bus down from Chicago, sticks and snare drum in hand.
 
“It was fitting to return to the midwest to make this record. My mom had just died unexpectedly, so I’d been driving back and forth from Nashville to Akron all summer long. I just got in the car again, almost on autopilot and ended up in Indiana instead. Kenny said at one point, ‘You know...it’s that good old midwest practical sadness.’ And that was it.” 
 
Hear a preview track from PRACTICAL SADNESS on Rough Trade’s "A Song a Day Takes the Pain Away." The full length is set for a winter 2018 release.

PRACTICAL INFLUENCES
The Pretenders
The Velvet Underground
The Stones
 
SOUNDS LIKE
Courtney Barnett
Cat Power
Angel Olsen

LEAD TRACKS
It’s True
In Your Arms 
Dying on the Dance Floor
What's Left of My Heart

Practical Sadness (pre-release)

In Your Arms

CONTENT

Deserted

My Beautiful Melancholy (single)

My Beautiful Melancholy

Animals of the Carnival is an indie rock / alternative project based in Leeds with all original material.

Dan Gray (vocals, guitars, bass, keys, programming)
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