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The Lashes - "Don't Cha Stop" The Cars Cover

The Lashes - "Death By Mixtape (Get It Version)"

The Lashes - "Happy Birthday To Me"

featuring Monika Khot on backup vocals, triny trumpet, vocal engineering

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TV Coahran feat. Monika Khot - BOWIE MEDLEY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (CELEBRATE)

Maggie

sonja

Some excellent friends of mine and I, temporarily christened Sean Nelson & The Coastal Elite, made this recording to say Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence to the late, great Mr. Bowie, and to the now-staggering array of great artists and friends who died this year.

"Dead Man Walking" has been one of my favorite post-golden years Bowie numbers since I first heard the drum and bass arrangement on Earthling in 1997 and I've never understood how is has escaped being discovered as one of several lost classics in his repertoire.

The band is Eric Howk (Portugal the Man/Shelby Earl) and Lance Umble (Sloucher / bod/ Cumulus)on guitars, Jacob James (Ships, MANY others)on bass & harmonies, and Michael Lerner (Telekinesis) on drums. Can't ask for better. Michael also recorded and mixed it. (When we performed this arrangement earlier this year, Nouela O. Johnston of Bardot played keyboards and sang, so she's in the band, too, if she'll have us.)

Dead Man Walking

Produced by Kirk Huffman
Co-Produced and Mixed by Elan Wright and Nima Skeemz 
at The Ruby Room in Seattle, WA
Mastered by Adam Straney 
at Break Point Mastering in Portland, OR

Additional Engineering by Milo Eubank 
at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, WA

Song and Lyrics by Kirk Huffman
Vox/Bass/Drum Programmin/Synthesizers by Kirk Huffman
Turntables by Alec Olabarria
Trombone by Jacob Herring and Greg Kramer
Tenor Sax by Peter Daniel and Dan Wager
Trumpet by Steve O'Brien and Eric Padget
Guitar performed by Eric Howk

Contains a sample from:
James Brown - "Funky Drummer" 1970

"Duck Kid Duck"
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for the thrill of it, cause it's inherent
kindergartners in bullet proof vests
got hard on the feel of IED's on our chests
like white guys with guns on the capitol steps
a Bible, a rifle
an AK and Allah
Redskins get the two-point conversion
an anthem and an image of an Indian
a hog's haven and a black boy
the heaviness of even being
and not knowing what it means
to love a large explosion like a safety with CTE
the twin towers collapse on repeat
mimicked in LEGOS by my jihad baby
to destroy it all cause it's natural
the sounds of Blue Angels or of shock and awe?
when the Super Bowl's decided by the hand of god
but you can't change a mind to what's right from wrong
when the conflict compels
I flee from myself and the intrinsic, internal, infinite inferno within me
the heaviness of even being and not knowing what it means
to love a large explosion like a safety with CTE
to take something so simple and push it to the extreme
the heaviness of being and not knowing what it means
the twin towers collapse on repeat mimicked in LEGOS by my jihad baby

Duck Kid Duck

I've recorded my songs songs under the pseudonyms Palmer AK, Palmer Electric, Howk, and Boom City. It's all the same off-key uneducated rural caterwauling. There, saved you actual hours.

sonja

Eric Howk

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