The Wild Rover

A track from our new album, Red River Kitchen

Vocals: Will Dee, Manny Dowling, Luz Thébaud
Guitars: Will Dee
Bass: Julien Lacombe
Slide: Damien Hyerlé
Melodica: Will Dee

Produced by King Shivers, 2015

Recorded at Kitchen Recording Studio, Bordeaux
Engineered by Milos

Mixed by Ben Bridgen at Beer and Burger Records, Nantes

Traditional song, from an arrangement by Tom Dowling




The Wild Rover

Insectro/ She Comes and Goes

Lyrics:

Fade in shade again. Eyes like double plug socket converters, that don't quite fit. Oh, no good is that. On Rue Maucoudinat she flows. Do you know the way she comes and goes? Oh, I know the way she comes and goes. Beautiful back. I get lost in the sands of bronze and black. Wagon axle broke. Oh, I'm hungry for her: suck her sucrose, pluck her blue rose. Do you know the way she comes and goes? Oh, I know the way she comes and goes. Throw me over sofas. Throw me over the whole golden ocean. Hard to say the words when she's dying like that, going lickety split and slick, oh. Do you know the way she comes and goes, do you know the way she comes and goes, do you know the way she comes and goes? Oh, I know the way she comes and goes.

Produced by King Shivers, 2015

Insectro

Guitars: Will Dee
Insect Moothie: Al Price
Percussion: Damien Hyerlé
Drums: Laurie McQueen
FX: Ben Bridgen

Recorded at Unit 7 Studio, Bladnoch
Engineered by Huey Dowling

She Comes and Goes

Vocals and Guitar: Will Dee
Lead Guitar: Olivier Pénicaut
Bass: Julien Lacombe
Drums: William Mayet
Keys: Ben Bridgen

Recorded at Kitchen Recording Studio, Bordeaux
Engineered by Milos

Mixed by Ben Bridgen at Burger and Beer Records, Nantes

Written by William Dowling, 2015


Insectro/ She Comes And Goes

Lyrics:

Half past candlelight,
half mast in the night,
the ship on the sea,
on water the colour of wine.
A daughter was waving goodbye.

There's more to life than lines and lies and lays.
Take yourself away again.

Hand her a shawl
in shades of jade and black.
Let her keep the world.
All those things mean nothing at all.
All those things mean nothing at all.
On water the colour of wine,
a daughter was closing her eyes.

There's more to life than lines and lies and lays.
Take yourself away again.

It's not your fault.
It's not your fault.
It's not your fault.
It's not your fault.

With cut feet and grit teeth
the madman was making amends,
sleeping on sofas of friends. 
No water to mix with the wine.
Daughter, please open your eyes.

There's more to life than lines and lies and lays.
Take yourself away again, again.
Take yourself away again, again, again.
Produced by King Shivers, 2015

Written by William Dowling
Recorded at Unit 7 Studio, Bladnoch
Engineered by Huey Dowling
Mastered by Eddie Kean

Vocals and guitar: Will Dee
Harmonica: Al Price
Bowed Bass: Kevin Jess
Slide: Damien Hyerlé




Lines and Lies and Lays

Lyrics:

I look at the clock, and I think: "Is this all? Oh, man, is it three yet? Oh, girl, are you free yet?"

I saw the fight last night. He tore him a new spandex. Oh, Ma; is it clean yet? Oh, girl, am I free? Yeah.

To get it right you have to go all the way inside. To get it right you have to lose your sense of pride.

Come on: we can go whenever we want to.
Come, come, come: we can go whenever we want to.
Come on: we can go whenever we want to.
Come, come, come: we can go whenever we want to.

Vocals and guitars: Will Dee
Bass: Julien Lacombe
Drums: William Mayet

Produced by King Shivers, 2015
Recorded at Kitchen Recording Studio, Bordeaux
Engineered by Milos
Mixed by Ben Bridgen at Burger and Beer, Nantes

Written by William Dowling, 2015
 

Sociopathic Toilet Cleaner Blues

Lyrics:

She turns girls into birds, locks them in a hall of cages. She turns boys into words, tangles them in harsh sentences. The jagged dance around the willow branch. Oh, they say she used to love once. Oh, they say she was a beauty. She hangs the world on the shoulders of all abandoned brothers. Turns the suitors into stone. Place the blame on lonesome daughters, scrubbing stains beneath the alters. Oh, they say she used to love once. Oh, they say she was a beauty. Oh, they say she used to love once. Oh, they say she was a beauty.

Vocals and Guitar: Will Dee
Produced by King Shivers, 2015
Recorded in Will's living room
Mixed by Ben Bridgen at Burger and Beer

Written by William Dowling, 2015

She Turns Girls Into Birds

Lyrics:

Renée and the gang are in Hawaii. Their plane touched down on Saturday. Gentle John was wild excited, hands of a man, mind of a child. Evie's face was caked in makeup; the heat made her cheeks like molten wax. Brother Max was breathing heavy. The skin on show made his one good half eye spin. Elroy's backpack had secret compartments full of chemical creations from Renée's imagination. Renée and the gang are in Hawaii. They never found a place to stay. Gentle John is gently weeping. He gets frightened at the shape of everything. Little Evie's late again. The others whisper either John or Max. Brother Max is tearing hair from a mangled animal in the alley. Elroy is watching the transit of Venus and scraping strange equations in the sand. Renée and the gang are in Hawaii. They're cutting little strips up from the meat. They will not tell you where they found it. They just knew they had to eat. Renée and the gang are in Hawaii. Calendar pages peel and blow away.

Produced by King Shivers, 2015

Vocals, keys and guitar: Will Dee
Bowed bass: Kevin Jess

Recorded at Unit 7 Studio, Bladnoch
Engineered by Huey Dowling
Mixed by Eddie Kean

Written by William Dowling, 2015   

Renée And The Gang Are In Hawaii

Lyrics:

Blackout beauty, cracked my guitar. Sketch of dark petals. I can't make it. So she gave me one thin but strong arm. All the words on her front, on her back, in my hands, stained in ink in a tongue that my blood understands. I'm not ready for another, still they pour me more. I can't help it, I will drink her, tastes all red and gold. All the words on her front, on her back, in my hands, stained in ink in a tongue that my blood understands. Slight white blindness in the daylight and I stink like a thousand good times. Honestly, dishonesty is a policy when it feels like this. All the words on her front, on her back, in my hands, stained in ink in a tongue that my blood understands. How her skin it sings, how I want to sink in. How her skin it sings, how I want to sink in.

Produced by King Shivers, 2015

Vocals and guitars: Will Dee
Bass: Win Liv Shak III
Drums: Laurie McQueen
Moothie: Al Price
Percussion: Damien Hyerlé

Recorded at Unit 7 Studio, Bladnoch
Engineered by Huey Dowling
Mixed by Ben Bridgen at Burger and Beer, Nantes

Written by William Dowling, 2015

Singing Skin

Lyrics:

I trickle down Trixie, her blood is good whisky, listening to some big Pict sing Gypsy, her lilac tongue licked me. Ne'er did a girl like you e'er like me, ne'er did lips like yours e'er kiss me. The Queen screamed by the stream: "The King's caravan needs fixing, fixing, fixing." She said, Will you be a man?" I said, "Will you be a woman?" Ne'er did a girl like you e'er like me, ne'er did lips like yours e'er kiss me. Sing a sudden southern maudlin song, I'm with you when the morning comes. so blacken my blinds, I'm whiting out, wiping out, I'm waking up, and you're gone. A crystal line hit me, my glazed eyes they used to be blue. The flutter of a butterfly, I'm crying, she spreads her wings on my wheel. Ne'er did a girl like you e'er like me, ne'er did lips like yours e'er kiss me. Sing a sudden southern maudlin song, blacken my blinds, I'm whiting out, wiping out, I'm waking up, and you're gone. You're gone. Won't you come around again? I need the hair o' the beast that bit me...

Produced by King Shivers, 2015

Vocals, Keys and Guitar: Will Dee
Moothie: Al Price
Bowed Bass: Kevin Jess

Recorded at Unit 7 Studio, Bladnoch
Engineered by Huey Dowling
Mixed by Ben Bridgen at Burger and Beer, Nantes

Written by William Dowling, 2015

Hair O' The Beast That Bit Me

Lyrics:

Emergency Mama, my mind has gone, in urgency. Told Uncle Ozzy, I had to write. He said first to grab my life. Emergency Mama, my mind's not right, in urgency.

Now you've seen me falling down, will you still be calling round? Now you've seen me getting up, will you still be calling up?

Wait for me, a soaking saint in the rain at Pey-Berland. Walk with me on silver paint; straight's a strain. The rain falls on just like me, reeling, faint. Streets are strange and way too long.

Now you've seen me falling down, will you still be calling round? Now you've seen me getting up, will you still be calling up? All the girls move from the centre, like everything from everything. All the boys move from the centre, like everything from everything.

Vocals, Guitar: Will Dee
Electric Guitar: Milos

Produced by King Shivers, 2015
Recorded at Kitchen Recording Studio, Bordeaux
Engineered by Milos
Mixed by Ben Bridgen at Burger and Beer, Nantes

Written by William Dowling, 2015

Emergency Mama

Lyrics:

Take me now to the water, hold me down; 'til I've found some old god, caked in salt.

Through and through, I'm blue like you. Through it all, I'm blue like you.

We will wake with some fool's tune in our mouths. You will take my breathlessness with you again. Your dirty world and filthy curves were all mine. Now we stare at an aerial view of our funeral.

Through and through, I'm blue like you. Through it all, I'm blue like you.

Wind whispers curses at winter's window. Unfurl yourself in sylphlike line and get lost now.

Through and through, I'm blue like you. Through it all, I'm blue like you. Through and through, I'm blue like you. Through it all, I'm blue like you.

Produced by King Shivers, 2015

Vocals and Guitar: Will Dee
Bass: Win Liv Shak III
Drums: Laurie McQueen
Moothie: Al Price
Percussion: Damien Hyerlé

Recorded at Unit 7 Studio, Bladnoch
Engineered by Huey Dowling

Written by William Dowling, 2015

Blue Like You

One fucked year.
September it climbed up the walls.
I'm done here.
October can clean out the halls,
'Cause I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone.

Dark island,
The kind that I'd pray for at sea.
Dark eyelash,
The kind that just kisses the breeze,
'Til it's gone, it's gone, it's gone,

Like the smoke that kissed the gun.

All blacked out, so
Pass some electricity here.
The shine's not bright enough.
I'm mixing up dreams with what's real,
'Til memory is gone, it's gone, it's gone,

Like the smoke that kissed the gun.

Guitar and vocals: Will Dee
Slide: Damien Hyerlé
Backing Vox: Manny Dowling

Engineered by Milos
Recorded live at Kitchen Recording Studio, Bordeaux

Written by William Dowling

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