Death Cab for Cutie "Lightness (Demo)" from the forthcoming "Transatlanticism - Tenth Anniversary Edition" in-stores October 29, 2013.  

In celebration of the classic 2003 album's 10th birthday, Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism" will be made available on vinyl after several years out of print. Both the vinyl reissue and a digital-only "Transatlanticism - Tenth Anniversary Edition" are set for October 29, 2013 release. 

The digital Anniversary Edition -- and the album MP3 download included with the vinyl -- will both include the original demos for each of the album's 11 songs, none of which has ever been released before.

Interested listeners can get the demos in four ways. In addition to their availability as part of the vinyl MP3 download and the Tenth Anniversary Edition, the demos will also be released as a separate low-priced digital release titled "Transatlanticism Demos" for fans who already own the original album. Additionally, the demos will be added as a special bonus to the download codes included in the Barsuk Years vinyl box set released earlier this year by Artist in Residence.

Death Cab for Cutie "Lightness (Demo)" (from Transatlanticism)

YOU NEVER KNOW (The Forks)
Composer: Riley B. King / Joe Bihari
Recorded Summer 2008 / Post Production 2011

Another track from The Forks and good proof that Brian and John hadn’t lost any of their blues finesse.  Bri had dalliances with many a musical style yet he would always return to his first love, the music he’d bought his ‘59 Les Paul to play.  Blues was home.
He kept that guitar (purchased, by the way, from Selmers in Charing Cross Road for the vast sum of £148 on 28th September ’65 – I still have the HP agreement) for many years and when I picture him, it is always with that machine around his neck, belting out one of his beautifully crafted solos.

Well you’ll never know how you hurt me, baby
How bad I feel inside
You’ll never know how you hurt me
How bad I feel inside
I believed you when you said you loved me
But I know you lied

And when I lay down in darkness
I keep hearin' your sweet voice
When I lay down in darkness, babe
I keep hearin' your sweet voice
And I remember you at church, woman, oh, and how I rejoice

A lot of people talkin'
And I don't care what they say
I realise a lot of people are talkin', baby
And I don't care what they say
I’m no good without you and I want you home to stay

If you ever change your mind, babe
Won't you please come on home
If you ever change your mind
Won't you please come on home
I'm no good without you
And you're no good to me gone

Brian Reeves: Guitar, Vocals.
John Lancaster: Keyboards


You Never Know - The Forks (2008)

All of Me

All Of Me

WHEN WILL I BE LOVED
Written by Phil Everly.  Recorded live at The Red Lion Folk Club, Sutton, 28/4/1977

This portion of that  £***!! unbranded cassette seems to have fared less well than some of the others but Bri & Katy’s performance is, if I do say so myself, well worth the odd imperfection.  Hope you agree.

Brian Reeves: Vocals / Guitar
Katy Heath: Vocals / Guitar

When Will I Be Loved (1977) Norman Chop Trio, live at The Red Lion Folk Club

This song was inspired by Sharon Olds award-winning poetry collection Stag's Leap. Do check it out if you can - her words are much more compelling than mine, but mine are as follows:

When you told me I didn't cry.
I was wondering if those steaks I bought
Would last another night.
When you told me I didn't scream or make a fuss.
I was wondering how you rip in two
A lifetime's worth of us.
When you told me.
I had nothing to say.

When you told me I couldn't look you in the eye
I couldn't bear to see the pity
The absence of love's light.
I was sinking, I was drowning
I couldn't take a breath
I watched the bubbles slowing fading
Like it was someone else's death
Oh when you told me.
I had nothing to say.

But you had plenty, boy's on fire
But everything you say's so tired
'We don't talk we don't make time,
I must have known that we're not fine.'
You don't feel needed, I'm too strong
We're worth more than drifting along.
We're not working you say it's clear

We Don't Speak Of Her

Do you really think it will be okay
Our lives, the lies will melt away.
Can you really think I'll pull us through
Take care of all the details
Like I always do.

I'm not calm, this is numb, this is misery
I can't focus on the future
Blinded by our history
Don't you care that I'm broken, I'm lost
That if I ever started crying
I would never stop.

So when you told me
I looked the other way
Cos when you told me
I had nothing to say.

When you told me.
There was 
nothing 
left
to 
say.

It is over.wav

Jan Rush