I just watched her performing live and HAD TO SEARCH this song. Simply brilliant :)

Just fantastic , ms. Lisa. That voice gets me every time. Great tune and lyrics. Untouchable.

This is the version I like best. The feel is crushing it.

On The Water

Right Side of the River

HOMETOWN (Lisa Bastoni)
From the album ON THE WATER (March 8, 2024)

Your living room is Kelly green 
Watching Days of Our Lives on the TV screen 
Flowers on the couch and the window shades
I have to stay for dinner 
Cause my mom is running late 
Waiting by the window	
There’s a fence outside	
And a burned out house	
Covered in vines	
And I don’t know if they ever tore it down 
Cause I never went back to my hometown 
I never went back to my hometown

Your sister comes home from the soccer game
She never stops talking ‘bout what’s-his-name
Your father opens up a second can of beer
And there’s a hole in the wall and it’s always been there
Your mother wipes the table
She’s stacking the plates
And if you ask about the wall
She’ll just look away
Cause some things you don’t say out loud 
And I never like to talk about my hometown
Yeah, I don’t want to talk about my hometown
 
Jewelweeds growing in your backyard
We could stay out there until the sky got dark
Playing flashlight tag and kick the can
You were a boy
But you were my best friend
I can still remember when you moved away
How the grass grew through the gravel 
In your old driveway
I wonder how you’re doing now
If you ever made it back to our hometown
If you ever made it back to our hometown

Lisa Bastoni - vocal, acoustic guitar
Sean Staples - bass
Chris Anzalone - drums
Rich Hinman - electric guitar, pedal steep
James Rohr - piano
Zachariah Hickman - mellotron
Kris Delmhorst - harmony vocal

Produced by Sean Staples
Engineered and mixed by Zachariah Hickman, Greedy Beast Studio, Watertown, MA
Mastered by Dan Cardinal, Dimension Sound Studio, Jamaica Plain, MA

Hometown

Lisa Bastoni & Sean Staples perform "Nearby," a song they co-wrote, live on iCRV Radio program "The Monthly Scene with Phil Rosenthal," on May 18, 2018.

In 2017, Lisa released the award-winning album The Wishing Hour, produced by  Felix McTeigue (Lori McKenna/Anais Mitchell). This summer, they will team up again to record an album of all new songs. If you like this song and would like to hear the fully produced version (plus 9 more songs!) please visit Lisa's new album Kickstarter and contribute today! The all-or-nothing campaign ends on Thursday, June 7, 2018 - every bit helps and is greatly appreciated! 
https://kck.st/2KKf69t

Nearby (w/Sean Staples)

Lisa Bastoni is an award winning songwriter based in Northampton, MA. "Americana of the highest order...along the lines of Gretchen Peters or Patty Griffin." (Maverick-UK).

Nearby (w/Sean Staples)

Lisa Bastoni

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