Written, Performed, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Kenny Schick https://b3pmusic.com 
Video: https://youtu.be/zuq0Qd8RXak

Video Production/Editing by Jessica Fong https://adaptedcreations.com
Video & Artwork by Sabine Heusler-Schick https://basement3design.com 

BandCamp: https://kennyschick.bandcamp.com/track/the-fixer

The Fixer is a bit different than songs I’ve been making over the last 15 years or so. Though some of my songs always tend toward the longer side, not too many stretch to the 7 1/2 minute mark. Though I’m a fan of big crunchy guitar sounds, it’s not a texture I use too often as the main ‘sound’ of a song, though songs and bands in my past have certainly been centered around this type of sound.

This song sprang out of an instrumental germ really—Originally, the whole song was just the minute plus intro. It was an instrumental piece written for TV/movie placement, but for whatever reason, I was captured by it and felt that I wanted to hear more of the story it was trying to tell. It has a Tool vibe to it—that crunchy dark sound flavored with world music elements, and so I started to build on the piece like the Winchester Mystery house. It had no lyrics at first, but I built it more into a song form and figured it would start to inspire some lyric writing. 

The idea for the lyrics started to come while we were watching the TV series Ray Donovan: it just struck me how weird it is that there are people who get paid by wealthy famous people to ‘handle’ their sometimes enormous indiscretions/crimes. I thought it curious that people could find the mindset and skillset to lead them to this ‘profession’. Because most of my life is spent in my studio these days, no longer getting into any of the intense, dramatic overly-emotional situations of my younger days(lol), I find it useful to take on characters and become a musical ‘actor’ for song inspiration these days.

2-1-22

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The Fixer

The jagged, crunchy, southern rock groove in Blessed Avalanche speaks eloquently about not carrying sh*t around and trying to be strong when you really need to put stuff down. Having worked in restaurants, I know how oddly satisfying the sound of breaking dishes can be, and it seemed an apt and amusing metaphor for what happens when it all gets to be a bit too much and then comes crashing down. This song’s groove reflects one direction my music is going: involving at least one electric guitar and a good overdrive pedal.

Blessed Avalanche is the first pre-release from Martha's new album, Call Out, which drops on Friday, April 21, 2023 followed by an album release show at Art Boutiki Music Hall in San Jose CA on Saturday, April 22, 2023. Details at marthagrovesperry.com.

In addition to songwriting, lead vocals, and writing the harmony vocals, Martha performed backing vocals on this song. Kenny Schick, Martha's producer, also sang backing vocals and played or programmed all of the instruments. Kenny recorded his parts at Basement3Productions in Nashville, Tennessee, and Martha recorded her parts in March 2022 with Steven Glaze at ToneFreq Studio in San Jose, California.

Call Out

Blessed Avalanche

A lament of the working world and time spent chasing success

The Price I Pay

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Serengeti- Africa inspired instrumental

Suzie Sharron, is a voice actor,  born and raised in the Bay Area. Suzie is the youngest of 4. She attended the University of Southern California where she studied English.

Suzie has always enjoyed performing and has appeared in many school and community plays, and musicals.  She enjoys baking, and makes possibly the best chocolate chip cookies, ever.

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Suzie Sharron, is a voice actor, born and raised in the Bay Area. Suzie is the youngest of 4. She attended the University of Southern California where she studied English.

Suzie has always enjoyed performing and has appeared in many school and community plays, and musicals.  She enjoys baking, and makes possibly the best chocolate chip cookies, ever.

Suzie Sharron NARRATION

For more info on my debut EP, Retribution, visit https://www.davidjamesmortonmusic.com

Retribution

https://artemesiablack.com
Winter – the tale came one evening, I heard a baby crying, it floated through the open door one winter… so they would not be forgotten.

Winter

The Ghost Of Nashville by Kenny Schick

In the minutes after midnight March the 3rd
hovered up above like a big black bird
Swooped right down and swallowed German Town
Moved on like a train down Main St. Eastward bound
we headed for the basement
east of Eden as the beast came through
captured it’s prey and had it’s fill
off the bones of the ghost of Nashville

It rained it poured the Cumberland ran red 
The mayor fell ill, collapsed and took to bed
rats on Broadway spreading the disease
and rotten fruit was falling from the trees
good ‘ol boys with swollen pride
was this the day the music died
the streets fell silent, the drunks had had their fill
in the ghost of Nashville

Bridge

Will the songs of Music City die?
the beating heart, the poets cry
hindsight is 2020, foresight is 4 eyed
will we pack our cars leave music row behind,
Wave goodbye to the blind?
who’d sell the soul of Nashville for a song
even the devil pulled out of the deal, it was so damn wrong

Black and white sang the Music City Blues
courthouse burning on the evening news
Can’t get beyond the color of the skin
To let the healing of the wounds begin
Are we back to 1968?
never really killed the hate
See the city fall from up on St. Cloud Hill

the ghost of Nashville

The pressure built, the perfect storm arrived
what was left, just a struggle to survive
the beast exposed the ugly underneath
sharpened claws and gnashing of the teeth
the heart and soul of music city
knocked down replaced by tall and skinny
they’ll hunt until there’s nothing left to kill
in the Ghost of Nashville 

© copyright Kenny Schick 2020

The Ghost Of Nashville

Basement3Productions is a production company that does recording, mixing, producing, orchestration, graphic design & photography. As a husband and wife team we are also musicians together as ArtemesiaBlack and separately as Kenny Schick and Sabine Heusler-Schick songwriters. Kenny is also a musician for hire and does a lot of session work and live band work.

The Fixer

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