This song was written & performed by my friend Michael David Little, w/ myself coming in on drums in the last minute. It was recorded some 20yrs ago in a makeshift studio located somewhere in Phoenix, AZ. If i remember correctly, it was a sorta upstairs office above a storage shed at an apartment complex where his brother worked at the time... For whatever reason, it has never seen the light of day till now_  Michael has two self-produced independent albums you can find @https://michaeldavidlittle.bandcamp.com/ • I have faint memories of Mike throwing sticks in my direction as he wanted that simple drum part played kinda off-kilter – i think i just wound-up playing it left-handed. ~Enjoy!  |  Artwork by MDL

*I'm still hopeful that we're able to release this as a limited 7" single on 45rpm vinyl later this year in honour of it's 20th Anniversary! Special Thanks to Jason Hatfield at Pacific Sound Studio in Santa Cruz, CA for the *Remastered version heard here.

"Stuck On A Shelf" • Michael David Little

Songs from the edge of somewhere. A place that doesn’t announce itself. You step in and can’t tell if you’ve walked into a protest, a party, or the end of something.

Conil’s music comes from the blues and from the life that followed it. A voice marked by the places it’s been.

People heard it early.
Danny Thompson said, “You don’t sound like anyone else.”
Tchad Blake still plays Strange Part of the Country.
Peter Green walked into the studio one afternoon and cut a track.

The record didn’t arrive with noise. It surfaced—four stars in Q Magazine, a Blues Matters cover, a single reaching number three on the U.S. Alternative Radio Chart.

The early years were England. Then came New Orleans, New York, Berlin, the Himalayas, Kilimanjaro.

The second album is close now. Marc Ribot on guitar. Danny Thompson’s final sessions. Tchad Blake in Wales.

Some things reveal themselves only at the end.

⎊ i only need you for just a short time / o why cant you believe in me / no locked doors so my soul can breathe / + ghost key / wheres my ghost key / im a ghost ©️

"Stuck On A Shelf" • Michael David Little

death by water ˄❨