Garden City Movement - Move On

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Garden City Movement - Move On

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Needed to release the vibes. Recorded it all today (9.10.15)

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This was my final song in Lucerne, Switzerland, at Sudpol. I'd spent five days in Portugal, then flown to the Netherlands. We drove from there down through Germany, ending up in Zurich. We stopped there because my manager's friend, Gregory Alan Isakov, was playing there and we had a day off. We then drove in to Lucerne. It was the first show in a few days and I was really ready to sing. 
Here's the set-list for the show:
1-Ding Dong (There Goes the Bell)
2-I Bet You Don't Know Where I Am, But I'm Still Somewhere
3-I Snuck Off the Slave Ship
4-Something Weird Is Going On
5-Stones and Rocks
6-Communication Towers Are the New Castles

I noticed that as we were driving through Germany that there were so many castles up on the hills, overlooking the valleys and the rivers. As we continued to drive, I noticed that where there was a tall hill, when there wasn't a castle there was a communication tower. I started thinking about how in the old days we built castles and walls to protect us and keep our enemies away and now we built communication towers to spread messages far and wide. We can't decide what gets passed around.
Several years ago I sang a song called "You Can't Wear But One Pair of Shoes Off In Your Grave," and it is an idea I've sung about since. As I was singing about castles and towers I was reminded of the fact that no matter what we have, how much we accumulate, we can't take it with us to the grave.
About three years ago, I was in Nashville, Tennessee, working on a sculpture commission for the city. While I was there, I met the amazing storyteller Minton Sparks. We had coffee and talked about art and life and decided that we wanted to make some sounds together. She booked studio time the next day. We recorded three songs together. They weren't written down. We just improvised them. One of the songs we did was called, "I've Got A Dime in My Shoe for You." Minton and I have become great friends and have seen each other many times since then. And I think of her often. And I thought about her while singing in Lucerne, and you'll hear me talk about that in the song.

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