Zandy’s Songs
Original guitar songs by Zandy Clark
Copyright 2013

Attribution: Vocals and Guitar, Zandy Clark. Recording, his brother Winfield Clark. Mastering, Jed Leslie. Produced by Caleb Clark. 

Liner Notes
Growing up my father Zandy would thrill me, family and friends whenever he played his original songs to us. Now that I have a family of my own,  I can hear important pieces of my father’s life woven into the lyrics. I made this CD to preserve those pieces. These songs were recorded in August of 2007 and October of 2013 by Zandy’s brother Winfield Clark. They were mastered by my friend Jed Leslie. Thanks to my wife Laura for her help. - Caleb Clark

Zandy’s Song Notes
My songs are mostly doggerel. They are rhymed stories of my life, and other stories I bumped into. I try to make them sound the way people speak in everyday life. In my harmonies, I like the bagpipe drones, tight thirds and fourths, and some dissonance. Of course, I don't always achieve it!  Maybe, when I'm old, my voice will crack in yodels more naturally. Radio is my oldest song, written in the Bay Area in 1969, during the hippie movement when Molly and I split up. Sadly. The King, The Gambler, and Great Grandfather were written in New Boston, New Hampshire, just before Christmas 1974. I was looking for the perfect life, and shut down by indecision, as they are. The King is always the favorite of children. Cowboys, Cops and Robbers, Compost, Cloudy Skies, Muskrat, and Sally were written in North Stratford, New Hampshire during the long cold winter of 1976 when I was working for a visionary organic farm and compost operation.  That August, Caleb was ten and helped me sell the first ripe tomatoes in that northern village. Sally, Muskrat, and The Gambler are about wanting something-better-than, which is dangerous. I have fought that a lot. I also fought the Seabrook Nuclear Power plants, which pitted  two desires against each other, in a pitched battle. That was even more complicated. Nobody won, but both thought the other lost. Then again, nobody died! The Flying Muskeggs was written around 1978. Flying Muskeggs are fantasy birds inspired by the bubbles that rise from the peat bogs in New England. As a kid, I spent many days on a deserted pond in an old scow we raised from the mud and patched up. We made a box with a glass pane in the bottom to see into the depths. We saw water snakes and turtles, dragon flies and horned  catfish.  Life arose from such unlikely beginnings, anything was possible. I had a friend with me, like Ralph, who knew everything and had a wild, daring personality.  He died in Vietnam to my sorrow. Tree Love, Children Singing, Biddeford Pool, and Pop-Tarts and Bagels where written in 1978-80 in Freeport and Bath, Maine.  The Pop-Tarts song is true. Caleb's two grandmothers served these world's apart foods! His mother and me were more granola-ish.  That he was spoiled by his grandmothers is undeniable! That he ran away is untrue, though he must have wanted to many times, being a child of divorce, and moving from coast to coast. Possibly he did in other ways. Athabaska was written about 1984, a tall tale inspired by my time in the Army in Anchorage Alaska. Some of my songs are happy, some are sad, the luck I've always had!

The Flying Muskeggs

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