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I go to work in the morning
I go to work every day
though the boss gave me a warnin’
I get run down by the foreman
I dream through my mornings
I dream through my days

You know I come home
by the sight of cigarette circles glowin'
to go blind was fine when we were young
but now dear, your disguise is fallin'
so I'm up again the next morning
an' you and I, we keep it that way

The dull in the television dream
distracts me
after work what do I got left to believe?
my soul's replaced by machines
I am static in the evening
and back at it by morning

No I don’t catch the politics
the sport of the presidents
none of these days, news do stick
I’ll admit I'm apathetic
does my word matter anyway?
war or not, work’s enough each day

Well those days I spoke out my choice
most days I try to avoid it
now I can hardly hear that voice
it's driven outta me each day
I dreamt away my mornings
I dreamt away my days

© & ℗ 2013 Mama Bird Recording Co. under license from Vikesh Kapoor.
Written by Vikesh Kapoor, © 2013 Riverboat Song (ASCAP)
Recorded/Engineered/Mixed by Adam Selzer.
Mastered by Jeff Lipton.

The Ballad of Willy Robbins

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Drag my body down from the mountain peak
take a breath before I'm seen
I rig a rope somewhere no one knows
like the lonely climb 
up a scaffold

Close my eyes thinkin' of my childhood dream
easy when mama's your one and only stream
washin' away any sorrow you have seen
hold on tight, don't lose sight 
of the beam

Take me, home
Take me, home
Take me, home

Scold the boys up the rope
scream inside from down up through my throat
the golden light hides the evening moan
eaten my pride through my spine 
and bone

Carry me, home
Carry me, home
Carry me, home

Drag my body where the mountain meets the blue
take a breath before you're through
I rigged a rope somewhere no one knew

Vikesh Kapoor - Carry Me, Home

Johanna Samuels & Ohtis cover Wilco's "Via Chicago".

Produced & Mixed by Fen Ikner
Vocals by Johanna Samuels & Sam Swinson
Guitars by Adam Pressley & Fen Ikner

Written by Jeff Tweedy

Via Chicago

Johanna Samuels & Ohtis - Via Chicago

"There Is A Club" & "Solitary Girl" are companion singles from the new Jenny O. record 'Spectra' (out now on Mama Bird Recording Co.). Order on LP & CD + more digital options here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/mb059

/// Credits:

Produced, engineered, mixed & mastered by Kevin Ratterman.
Written by Jenny O.

/// Players:

Jenny O. - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Percussion, Drum Machine
Josh Adams - Drums
 
/// Lyrics:

I'm alone in this world
I'm a solitary girl
Got no number to call
Got nobody if I fall
I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone
I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone

I am quiet in a group
I am spacing out, I am good
Got no reason to talk
I regret it when I squawk
I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone
I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone

Well, if I needed you
Could you meet me there today?
And if I had a revelation
On a subject I’ve been on about
Would you go there too?

I am soft and introspective
I am outwardly protective
I'm a fossil, I'm a star
In my electric car
I'm from the 21st century
I'm from the 21st century

Well, if I needed you
Could you meet me there today?
And if I had to see a giant in a redwood grove
Ten hours away, would you go there too?

I'm alone in this world
I'm a solitary girl
Got no number to call
Got nobody if I fall
I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone
I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone

Well, if I needed you
Could you meet me there today?
And if we fell in love
Would you keep me, would you stay?

Spectra

Solitary Girl

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Jenny O. - Solitary Girl

"Prism" is the 1st single from the new Jenny O. record 'Spectra' (out now on Mama Bird Recording Co.). Order on LP & CD + more digital options here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/mb059

Watch the official lyric video here: https://youtu.be/eBom_PrpPJM

/// Credits:

Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Kevin Ratterman
Written by Jenny O.

/// Players:

Jenny O. - Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer, Moog Bass
Josh Adams - Drums, Percussion

/// Lyrics:

Baby, I want it
Not that I need it
But if you been wondering
You should know
What my love can do
 
My love my love my love my love my love
My love for you
My love my love my love my love my love
My love is true
My love my love my love my love my love
My love for you
 
Freak, wild thing
Soft animal
Baby, where you going?
You should see
What my love can do
 
My love my love my love my love my love
My love for you
My love my love my love my love my love
My love is true
My love my love my love my love my love
My love for you
 
Is a prism for your electric art
Is a castle for your magical heart
Let me be your magnifier, and meet you higher
A reciprocal spirit!
 
My love for you
My love my love my love my love my love
My love is true
My love my love my love my love my love
It’s what I do
I love I love I love I love I love
Completely
I love I love I love I love I love
And then again
I love I love I love I love I love
Superpower
I love I love I love I love I love
It’s what I’ll do for you

Prism

Jenny O. - Prism

The second single from Skyway Man & Andy Jenkins' new collaborative EP 'Nothing No. 1' (out now on Mama Bird Recording Co.). "Moment of Quiet" also features guest vocals from Molly Sarlé. Buy/save/stream/share here: http://mamabird.lnk.to/MB055

/// Credits:

Written by Andy Jenkins & James Wallace
Produced by Cameron Ralston & Skyway Man
Recorded by Cameron Ralston at Spacebomb Studios
Strings Arranged by Cameron Ralston
Additional Recording by James Wallace
Mixed by Jake Davis
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk
Cover Art by Sara Gossett

/// Players:

Andy Jenkins - Vocals
Molly Sarlé - Vocals
James Wallace - Vocals, Piano, Synthesizers, Drum Machine
Cameron Ralston - Standup Bass, Marimba, Chimes, Drum Machine
Alan Parker - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Pinson Chanselle - Percussion

/// Lyrics:

I  waited all day, for the middle of night
A sweet thing, a moment of quiet
We pine and pine, get turned inside out
For a sweet thing, a moment of quiet

Dusk has laid it on so thick
The trees hang low, looking so lovesick
If you see what I see, you couldn't deny it
A moment of quiet

The lines on the wall ripple and sway
A cutting look, a movement in darkness
I don't want to play games, I don't want to keep score
Eyes on the sky, eyes on the floor

Dusk has laid it on so thick
Saw the light on your face, but it was gone so quick
Ribbon of smoke so thick you could tie it
A moment of quiet

Have you heard singing roads converge in the strangest round?
Baby, have you heard oceans in the heavy highway sound?

I waited all night, for the middle of day
For a clear pane, an image of silence
We dream and dream and lie in wait
To see what's outside, an image of silence

Dusk has laid it on so thick
Trees hang low, looking so lovesick
Moon burning bright, shadows a riot

Have you heard curlews weep for the ones who can't return?
Have you heard fires on the water softly burn?
Have you heard singing roads converge in the strangest round?
Baby, have you heard?
Underneath the ground, there is no sound

Nothing No. 1

Moment of Quiet

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Skyway Man & Andy Jenkins feat. Molly Sarlé - Moment of Quiet

From the album, Not So Deep as a Well, available here: http://tunes.mamabirdrecordingco.com/album/not-so-deep-as-a-well

There was a rose that faded young;
I saw its shattered beauty hung
Upon a broken stem.
I heard them say, "What need to care
With roses budding everywhere?"
I did not answer them.

There was a bird, brought down to die;
They said, "A hundred fill the sky-
What reason to be sad?"
There was a girl, whose lover fled;
I did not wait, the while they said,
"There's many another lad."

Myriam Gendron - Solace

"Faraway Skies" is the first single from Dean Johnson's forthcoming debut album 'Nothing for Me, Please', out May 5th on Mama Bird Recording Co. Stream/save/share/pre-order here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/mb047

/// Credits:

All Songs Written by Dean Johnson
Recorded Live at Mashed Potato Records in New Orleans, June 4-7th, 2018
Engineered by Duff Thompson & Sam Doores
Produced by the Musicians & Engineers
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering
Cover Illustration by Becca Fuhrman
Design by Vincent Bancheri & Dan MacDonald
Layout by Vincent Bancheri

/// Players:

Dean Johnson: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Sam Gelband: Harmony Vocals, Snare Drum
Charlie Meyer: Upright Bass
Duff Thompson: Electric Guitar
Steph Green: Lap Steel
Sam Doores: Tambourine, Bic Lighter

/// Lyrics:

You wouldn’t know by lookin’ at me
I am a cowboy, my friend
I’m forever out riding upon the range of my mind
Dreamin’ away all of my time

Cattle calls and canyon walls, the jangle of spurs
At the light of dawn, put the saddle on, start movin’ the herd
The distant horizons are a glorious sight
And there’s gettin’ lost in the Milky Way at night

I got a lightnin’ lassoo and my trusty horse Blue
I’ve got a six-shooter, too
I have an ol’ Stetson hat and a shaggy mustache
Yes, I’m at home on the range

Tumbleweed and buffalo, the rivers run wild
Sunset over rollin’ hills, ghost-rider sky
A campfire song has me feelin’ just right
Yeah, I’m gettin’ lost in the Milky Way tonight

Down on the sidewalk life passes me by
I’ve been too slow for these times
But now you’ll be knowin’ if ya look in my eyes
I’m a cowboy ’neath faraway skies

Ooh ooh, yippee yi-yi
I’m a cowboy ’neath faraway skies

Nothing for Me, Please

Faraway Skies

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Dean Johnson - Faraway Skies

"The Good Fight" is a previously unreleased B-side from Anna Tivel's 2022 album 'Outsiders'. Stream/save/share: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB062

/// Credits:

Written by Anna Tivel
Produced by Shane Leonard
Engineered by Brian Joseph
Mixed by Shane Leonard
Mastered by Huntley Miller
Artwork by Chris Frisina
Design by Vincent Bancheri

/// Players:

Anna Tivel - guitar, vocals
Ben Lester - piano
Courtney Hartman - electric guitar
Jeremy Boettcher - bass
Shane Leonard - drums, percussion
Alec Spiegelman - woodwinds

/// Lyrics:

If tomorrow never comes, if none of it was real
Just the dreams of angels, and the devil's deals
If nobody begins to sing another prayer
A wild dog howling something only hearts can hear
If the clouds are coming over, and the storm is rolling in
I still meant what I told you, I'd do it all again

If tomorrow never comes, if this was just a test
A marble in the ether, a temporary fix
If nothing ever happens, if nobody awakes
To kiss another lover, to love so hard it hurts
If the curtain's really closing, and the crowd begins to stand
I still meant what I told you, I'd do it all again

If we don't ever make it, if we never become
Something to remember, a legendary love
If everything is stardust, and we burn and disappear
No one leaning toward us, struggling to hear
And if none of it is lasting, and if nobody believes
In real understanding, forgiveness and release
And if we don't ever find it, a truth so briefly held
What's the use of kindness, in such an ugly world?
What's the use of laughing, at such an awful hour?
What's the use of asking god for something more?
Maybe in this moment, everything is kept
Gilded light and darkness, loving and regret
The battle and the brake lights, the flashing of a hand
Reaching with a jackknife, or comforting a friend
Then I guess that it's alright if I don't know how it ends
The battle is a good fight and I'd do it all again

The Good Fight

Anna Tivel - The Good Fight

"The Bell (Acoustic)" is the first single from Anna Tivel's forthcoming 'Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)', which is due for release on August 18th, 2023 on Mama Bird Recording Co. 'Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)' is an acoustic companion record to Anna's critically acclaimed 2022 album 'Outsiders'. Stream/save/share it here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB065

/// Credits:

Written by Anna Tivel
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Jon Neufeld at Treehouse Studio
Cover Art by Chris Frisina 
Design by Vincent Bancheri

/// Players:

Anna Tivel: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Jon Neufeld: Acoustic Guitar

/// Lyrics:

You came in like a roll of thunder, trying to change the shape of love
Looking for somebody to believe in you for once
How’d the world get so confusing, how’d the ache inside your chest
Go from something beautiful to something dangerous

But now I guess the rain is coming, and it’ll rain like hell
But nothing ever changes til you ring the bell

Lit up like a firecracker, you’ve been burning out for years
Nothing left but ruined plastic shells and helpless tears
But once you were a brilliant flash, a crash of silver light
Don’t forget the way you felt, all hungry and alive

But now I guess the rain is coming, and it’ll rain like hell
But nothing ever changes til you ring the bell

I know you’re a crazy dreamer, I know that you still believe
Something good is just beyond the darkness of this dream
And time will tell a softer story, how you climbed above the wire
Held that hammer high above and made the damn thing chime

But now I guess the rain is coming, and it’ll rain like hell
But nothing ever changes til you ring the bell

Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)

The Bell

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Anna Tivel - The Bell (Acoustic)

"Invisible Man" is the second single from Anna Tivel's 'Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)', an acoustic companion record to her 2022 album 'Outsiders'. The full album will be released August 18th on Mama Bird Recording Co. Stream/save/share it here: mamabird.lnk.to/MB065

/// Credits:

Written by Anna Tivel
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Jon Neufeld at Treehouse Studio
Cover Art by Chris Frisina 
Design by Vincent Bancheri

/// Players:

Anna Tivel: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Jon Neufeld: Acoustic Guitar

/// Lyrics:

Invisible man, you’re an asphalt dancer
Cinematic, backward talking fool
Don’t reach for my hand with your madman laughter
I am scared to become like you

I awoke, in the early morning, in my own apartment, up above
Where you stood, in a bed of flowers, telling no one real to shut up
Get out, get out, I don’t want you in my brain
A seed, of doubt, it gets planted anyway

Invisible man, you’re a radiator
Burning up the pavement in the dark
Don’t reach for my hand, I am not your neighbor
I am scared to be like you are

I got up, made a cup of coffee, got my shoes and car keys and I left
To my job, down the elevator, out the door where you were yelling
Get out, get out, you’re not welcome in my brain
A seed, of doubt, well it haunts me like a plague

Invisible man, you’re a tightrope walker
An obscene applauder in the street
Don’t reach for my hand, I am not your brother
You are not a thing like me

Invisible man, your electric laughter
Running addled circles on the loose
And the truth is that I’m just another madman
And I see myself in you

Invisible Man

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Anna Tivel - Invisible Man (Acoustic)

"Long Distance Healing" is the first single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://MamaBird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace & Clark Williams  
Recorded at Montrose Studios, Moongate & The Peach Tree
Mixed by Jake Davis
Engineered by Adrian Olsen, Kai Welch & James Wallace
Produced by James Wallace (Skyway Man)
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Vocals, Keyboards, Synths & Piano: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Kelly McFarling & Rebecca Marcyes
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Trombones: Matt Jefferson
Trumpet: Kai Welch

/// Lyrics:

Willow, sing for me
With shaky fever, stranger than a
Long gone harmony
Pulled from the edges of old mankind

Tell me the story
About the morning I was born
Don’t leave anything out
That I could cling onto

Left under your weeping lace
My legs gave out underneath me
Right now, the effort it takes just to raise my head
Mother, it’s more than I have in a day

Willow, scream for me
Open your wings wider than the sun
I’ve forgotten to fear the fire I was forged from

Wildflower pillow
Come see how weak I’ve become
Bring warmth to the cold moving shiver across my spine

Oh on the way to your dream embrace
My eyes start to deceive me
I pray to the faces in your floating leaves:
Show me what future remains

Daylight is breaking
Hear the bells’ chaotic ring
There’s a gun on my hip
I must be dreaming, I smile

Are you right here with me?
Is that your whisper in my skull?
The farther it came calmed the horror of changes in time

Go, I’ve already seen my fate bent through the light of your branches
Until my body releases and I drift away, I’ll cling to your canopy still
Into your canopy still
I cling to your canopy

“Old weeping willow, got cut down years ago
I would show you the way there, but the path is overgrown
That old weeping willow got cut down years ago!
I don’t know, but that thing you found might guide us home.”

Flight of the Long Distance Healer

Long Distance Healing

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Skyway Man - Long Distance Healing

"Dumb Hope" is from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', which is out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace
Recorded at Montrose Studios & Moongate
Engineered by Adrian Olsen & James Wallace
Mixed by Jake Davis
Produced by James Wallace
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Vocals: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Molly Sarlé
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Keyboards & Synths: James Wallace
Piano: James Wallace
Additional Percussion: Miles Lassi

/// Lyrics:

If ya got dumb hope at the beginning of your journey
If that’s you holding burning pieces of a funeral shroud
If you know that there’s no future, just a story biding time till found
I wanna show ya something now

If big man say he’s got your number but won’t take you under
And he bringing heavy weather, harder than when ya started out
That day you awoke facing your own shell, were you floating or lying on the ground?

Take a drive with me at dawn to peek at the fault line
To ease the wear upon our bloodline
To look at things we haven’t lost or found
When you stared into the doom through your teary, blurred eyes
And let the edges turn to shoreline
For a moment everything was whitewash and sound
Miles below us now

We are the ever-driving, never-arriving crowd
Hurried to a lonely outpost station, chasing ancient sound
We alone can see the glory of the nightmare lying on the ground

Is that the answer to the game just as sure as the tree grows?
Or maybe what the hell do we know?
Some folks say anything to break the silence down
I hold onto the doom ’cause you’re the one I must follow
And even if my hands were hollow
I’d still carry you through the wild shit I’ve found
Inches above the ground

Dumb Hope

Skyway Man - Dumb Hope

"Winds" is the third single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace
Engineered by Adrian Olsen, Kai Welch & James Wallace
Recorded at Montrose Studios, Moongate & The Peach Tree

/// Players:

Spoken Word: Dr. James Oliver Cyr 
Vocals: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Kelly McFarling & Rebecca Marcyes
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Keyboards & Synths: James Wallace
Piano: James Wallace
Trombones: Matt Jefferson
Trumpet: Kai Welch

/// Lyrics:

CYR: I parked my van
I just wanted to walk into the good quiet of nature
And enjoy the beauty, the serenity of the moment
About 50 yards off the road
I came upon this huge grandfather Elk that was just lying there

I was already dying
There was nothing to see
When the winds came up
When the winds came up

I did what I was told to do:
Stare forward and run
When the winds came up
When the winds came up

And the glory of the nightmare
Written inside of an aurora borealis
Unwound from the casing of love
That came from your eyes
Like a century flood
When the winds came up

Broadcasted my station
No message returned
When the winds let up
When the winds let up

If you want, I could hold to you
If you ain’t already passed on
When the winds let up
When the winds let up

And the glory of the nightmare
Written inside of the day I buried Alice
Into the colored jetstream glove
At the end of flight
Under engine song
Oh the boredom!
When the winds let up

CYR: I don’t know what you know about the dimensional shift, “The New Golden Age”
The antlers were a gift from the spirit of Elk
To give me strength and endurance
During the times that are coming on this planet

In truth, I am scared to do
That which might change my heart
If the winds let up
If the winds let up

Always already dying
Never nothing to see

Winds

Skyway Man - Winds

"The Holding On" is the second single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB069

Watch the accompanying short film: https://youtu.be/eMlnFgnw-Dw

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace 
Recorded at Skyline Studios & Moongate
Mixed by Jake Davis
Engineered by Miles Lassi & James Wallace
Produced by James Wallace
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout  by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Spoken Word: Dr. James Oliver Cyr
Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards & Synths: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Rebecca Marcyes
Drums: Sam Doores
Bass: Danny Vitali
Percussion: Miles Lassi

/// Lyrics:

CYR: I’ve been living in the wilds for 20 years now
Hardly speaking to anyone

How far did you stumble leaning on a ghost?
Now your eyes fix on the ceiling
Here comes a long lost feeling

Did drifting on turn from courage
To a wilder form of pleading?
Does the holding on keep you from healing?

Don’t ask why the time goes still
Don’t try to close the void wide open, child
I know you probably will
Make it last until

The old moonlight strikes your counter 
Slides down your window sill
Grabs hold of the lines on your hand uncurled
With light from the craters of a different world

Where husks of days wasted
Lay where the tide receded
When holding on kept you from healing

I’m trying hard, my friend
You know I don’t like feeling this for you
Burn off your selfish ends
Take off that shell inside your shell
And start receiving
You are now grieving
You’re the sound of one heart beating

The Holding On

Skyway Man - The Holding On

"Power and Position" is the first single from Nick Delffs' forthcoming album 'Transitional Phase', due out July 26th, 2024 on Mama Bird Recording Co. Pre-order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB073

/// Song Credits:

Written by Nick Delffs
Engineered by Z.V. House
Mixed by Eli Moore
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

/// Players:

Nick Delffs: Vocals, Piano, Drums, Keyboard
Ashley Eriksson: Violin, Backing Vocals
Eli Moore: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Synths, Percussion, Backing Vocals

/// Lyrics:

Power and position
Power and position
Everybody wants
Power and position

You do you, you do you
And I'll do me, I'll do me
Wish we were together, if we could only see
This world is a prison
But there must be a way out
If you find a way you better take it now

Power and position
Power and position
Everybody wants
Power and position

Power and position
Power and position
Everybody wants
Power and position

He feels loss, he feels pain
She feels pain, she feels pain
But they don't really care what the others say
Love is the answer
But it's hard to hold on
Take what you can before you lose it all

Power, power
Everybody wants power
Power, power
Everybody wants power
Power, power
Everybody, power

Once you get a little
It's never enough
Once you get a taste
It's in your blood
So rule your little kingdom
And just try to hold on
Take what you can before you lose it all

Power and position
Power and position
Everybody wants
Power and position

Power and position
Power and position
Everybody wants
Power and position

Power and position
Power and position
Everybody wants
Power and position

Power and position
Power and position
Everybody wants
Power and position
Power and position
Power and position
Everybody wants
Power and position

Power and position
Power and position
Everybody wants
Power and position

Transitional Phase

Power and Position

Nick Delffs - Power and Position

From the new album, Quite A Feelin', out now from Mama Bird Recording Co. (US/World) and Loose Music (Europe).

LYRICS:
I rolled down the window for some air
Stuck my elbow out the car
When I heard the music playin'
From a jukebox, honky-tonkin' bar
I went and shuffled through the tunes
For the one thing that I knew, that song of ours
When lovin' you was hard, my Indiana rose
So play it one more time, one more for the road
 
We used to sit out on the porch
With all that sweet corn shinin' in the breeze
Like the way you used to dance
With all them children wrapped around your knees
Though, now I find myself
Waitin' on somethin’ else to comfort me
The way it used to be, my Indiana rose
So play it one more time, one more for the road
 
Because that old song was all we left behind
Those regrets, I feel 'em all the time
The love we once had, it's hard to find
Now it's hard to know
 
Goin' through the motions ain't enough
If no one's playin' fair
When all you wanted was
Someone to come home with somethin' to share
Because everybody knows, with a promise
There's a reason to care
And I was never there, my Indiana rose
So play it one more time, one more for the road
 
Because that old song was all we left behind
Those regrets, I feel 'em all the time
The love we once had, it's hard to find
Now it's hard to know, my Indiana rose
My Indiana rose


CREDITS:
Written by Barna Howard, ASCAP.
Barna Howard, guitar & vocal; Lewi Longmire, electric guitar & bass; Tyler Maxwell Bussey, banjo; Ryan Spellman, drums.
Recorded, produced, engineered by Adam Selzer at Type Foundry Studio in Portland, OR.
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk.

Quite a Feelin'

Barna Howard - Indiana Rose

From Haley Heynderickx's debut album 'I Need to Start a Garden', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co.

I Need to Start a Garden

Haley Heynderickx - Oom Sha La La

"My Lover's Bed" is the first single from Taylor Kingman's solo debut, Wannabe, out November 17th from Mama Bird Recording Co.

Taylor Kingman - My Lover's Bed

From the debut album I Need to Start a Garden, out March 2nd (US/World) & March 30th (UK/EU) from Mama Bird Recording Co.

Haley Heynderickx - Untitled God Song

The third single off Haley Heynderickx highly anticipated full-length debut I Need to Start a Garden, out March 2nd (US/World) & March 30th (Europe) from Mama Bird Recording Co.

Haley Heynderickx - Worth It

If I ran ahead, would you know which way that I went without you?
In days, I would be lost and afloat 
Thrown into the waves, tossed ashore
Throw me now your arms 

We’re not meant to be on our own 
Is this now the time we let go 
And cling to one another, giving life?
Throw me now your arms 

Let me be the first to tell you I would give up my life
Every day as the tides grow closer, it is all that’s on my mind

Throw me now your arms and pull me in
Let me be the one at day’s end
Who you can depend on, hand in hand
Safely on the shore where we stand
Throw me now your arms 

Let me be the first to tell you I would give up my life
Every day, as the tides grow closer, it is all that’s on my mind

In the Shape of a Storm

Damien Jurado - Throw Me Now Your Arms

When I wake up, I don’t wake up
Until I crawl inside a coffee mug full of speed and powder drugs and coffee

When I get to work, I don’t get to work
Until I give my brain another jerk
With a couple keep-me-goin’s and a calm-me-down

Some folks roll automatic
They rise and fall just like God would have it
And life’s as easy as just pressing the gas and going
Well, I wish I could, but I spent alotta years
Trading the tides for coffee and beers
Now, I gotta shift my own busted gears
I’m a manual

When it’s happy hour, it ain’t happy hour
Until a couple rounds, tall, strong and sour
Get to shining up my smile for you see

When it’s time to chill, I don’t got time to chill
Until I get my watch to start standing still
And I know how, but that sure will be expensive

Some folks roll automatic
They rise and fall just like God would have it
And life’s as easy as just pressing the gas and going
Well, I wish I could, but I spent alotta years
Trading the tides for coffee and beers
Now, I gotta shift my own busted gears
I’m a manual 

I need my chemicals
To keep this vehicle
On the road

When she’s ready for sex, I ain’t ready for sex
Until I sneak a pill from my bedside chest
And, man, I’m far too young for this, I’m a manual

When it’s time to sleep, I don’t go to sleep
Until I smoke a big ol bowl of weed
And wash it down with cold and flu relief, I’m talking bout the good stuff

Some folks roll automatic
They rise and fall just like God would have it
And life’s as easy as just pressing the gas and going
Well, I wish I could, but I spent alotta years
Trading the tides for coffee and beers
Now, I gotta shift my own busted gears
I’m a manual 

I need my chemicals
To keep this vehicle
On the road

I’m a manual
I need my chemicals
To keep this vehicle
On the road

Arguably OK

TK & The Holy Know-Nothings - Emmanuel

From the album 'Up On High', out November 1st on Mama Bird Recording Co. (US/World) and Loose Music (UK/EU).

/// PLAYERS

Andy Cabic: vocals, guitars, keyboard
Gabe Noel: bass
Josh Adams: drums
Dan Iead: guitar

/// CREDITS

All songs written by Andy Cabic / Vetiverse Music (BMI)
Produced by Thom Monahan & Andy Cabic
Engineered and mixed by Thom Monahan
Recorded at Starlight Sound, Golden Void & Panoramic House
Mastered by Eric Broyhill at Broyhill Masters
Management by Dave Grazynski at Congress+Main
Cover photography by Terri Loewenthal 
Layout and design by Nathaniel Russell and Vincent Bancheri

/// LYRICS

Once a songbird caught me by surprise
With the strength of its singing
A bright call took flight, pierced the air
Like a lone bell a-ringing

What’s past is past
Wanted, never asked

I don’t expect to get a second chance
To choose my words as I mean to
But I’d take it all back, I was wrong
Now I know what you’ve been through

What’s past is past
Wanted, never asked

A songbird’s shadow upon the lawn
Lies in wait since you’re gone

Sun sure falls fast
No shadow cast
What’s past is past
Wanted, never asked

Up On High

Vetiver - Wanted, Never Asked

The first single off Vetiver's forthcoming album 'Up On High', out November 1st on Mama Bird Recording Co.


/// CREDITS

Written by Andy Cabic / Vetiverse Music (BMI)
Produced by Thom Monahan & Andy Cabic
Engineered and mixed by Thom Monahan
Recorded at Starlight Sound, Golden Void & Panoramic House
Mastered by Eric Broyhill at Broyhill Masters
Album cover & single photography by Terri Loewenthal 
Album layout and design by Nathaniel Russell and Vincent Bancheri


/// PLAYERS

Andy Cabic: vocals, guitar
Gabe Noel: bass
Josh Adams: drums
Tim Ramsey: pedal steel
Eric D. Johnson: organ
John Carroll Kirby: piano


/// LYRICS

What’s this fantasy
This long road calling me
To who knows where

Do I stay or go
I mean well you know
I’ve got to earn the life we share

Give me one more chance
One more song and dance
To prove I care

To prove I care
What wouldn’t I dare
To show you I need you so

But the lilacs bloom
Their sweet perfume and 
I have to go
 
What’s this give and take
All the strife it makes
When they won’t pair

Damn naïveté 
Is there any way
To prove I care

To prove I care
To show love’s there
How can I let you know

When the roses bloom
So strong, so soon
Well I have to go

What’s this fantasy
This road in front of me
To who knows where

Vetiver - To Who Knows Where

The fourth single from Jenny O.'s new album 'New Truth', out now from Mama Bird Recording Co. Buy/save/stream/share: http://smarturl.it/mb039

/// Players:

Jenny O. (guitars, bass, organ, vocals)
Josh Adams (drums)
Kevin Ratterman (percussion)

/// Credits:

Produced, Mixed, & Mastered by Kevin Ratterman
Recorded at Invisible Creature in Los Angeles, California
Cover Photo by Melanie Bellomo
Design by Vincent Bancheri

/// Lyrics:

Even if I tried
Even if I tried
You would never see this from my side
Another sunny day
Gone and pissed away
Thinking you would hear me out
Wishing you would meet me
I can’t find someone so uninspired
Yet you’re the authority on life and living?
With infinite wonder
To turn to turn you on
You’re never open
To anything like that
Even if I tried
Even if I tried
I could never be so dead inside
Another sunny day
Gone and pissed away
Thinking you would hear me out
Wishing you would meet me
When I was younger
Wholly by circumstance
Had to be captive to your nonsense
But good news!
No one has to talk to you
The world keeps turning
And you, you fade away
Even if I tried
Even if I tried
You would never see this from my side
Another sunny day
Gone and pissed away
Thinking you would hear me out
Wishing you would meet me

New Truth

Even If I Tried

Jenny O. - Even If I Tried

"Athena" is the second single off Tristen's forthcoming album 'Aquatic Flowers', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/stream/share: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB043

/// CREDITS:

Written by Tristen Gaspadarek & Lera Lynn
Produced by Tristen Gaspadarek & Buddy Hughen
Engineered & Mixed by Buddy Hughen
Mastered by John Baldwin
Painting by Megan Kimber
Artwork Design by Michael Eades


/// PLAYERS:

Tristen Gaspadarek: vocals, guitar
Buddy Hughen: guitars, keys
Linwood Regensburg: bass
Andy Spore: drums

/// LYRICS:

Would you know it if you had?
She was written by a man
Only a warrior until she undresses

Do you feel that way too?
Jealous, misunderstood
Disrupting the party again
With your feelings

Have you seen her, Athena?
Have you seen her?
Feeling all the sorrow of a broken world
Heavy garlands hang from a divine fighter
When you break the silence
Does it feel like violence?

She’s your heroine
Shut her up again
Long may she reign
If she can hide her strength
Have you seen her, Athena?
Have you seen her?

Aquatic Flowers

Athena

Tristen - Athena

The first single from Tristen's new album 'Aquatic Flowers', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/stream/share: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB043

/// CREDITS:

Written by Tristen Gaspadarek
Produced by Tristen Gaspadarek & Buddy Hughen
Engineered & mixed by Buddy Hughen
Mastered by John Baldwin

/// PLAYERS:

Tristen Gaspadarek: vocals 
Buddy Hughen: guitars, keys
Linwood Regensburg: bass
Andy Spore: drums

/// LYRICS:

I’m a drag to be around
I’ve got enough secrets to drown you
Overweight with hate
Unaware of what I’ve become
The extreme human being that you love

I’ve got a complex; it’s complex
I don’t know why I act this way
The things I do, the things I say
I really love you
I want to be with you, but I’m so scared

I’m exercising love
I’m lifting the weight
A lonely girl like me
Has to concentrate
I got no hope, but I’ve still got dreams
This isn’t what I thought it would be

You can have your way until you get in my way

I keep trying to find peace of mind
Where I don’t belong
It’s not easy for me to be wrong
I take it out on you
I remember every bad note we’ve played
Every great mistake we’ve made

Complex

Tristen - Complex

"All Is Fine" is the third single from Johanna Samuels' forthcoming album 'Excelsior!', out May 14th on Mama Bird Recording Co. (US/World) & Basin Rock (UK/EU). Pre-order/save/stream/share: https://smarturl.it/js-excelsior​

/// CREDITS:

Written by Johanna Samuels
Produced and Mixed by Sam Griffin Owens
Recorded at Flying Cloud Studios in West Shokan, NY
Mastered by Heba Kadry

/// PLAYERS:

Written by Johanna Samuels 
Rhodes, Piano and Vocals by Johanna Samuels
Guitar by Harrison Whitford 
Bass by Garret Lang
Drums and Percussion by Sean Mullins
Harmonies by A.O. Gerber 

/// LYRICS:

A silver moon in the bedroom
A dresser drawer, the envelope
A truth held in a tomb
A message that would just be met across the avenue
With seven or eleven beers
If it found its way to you

My heart it is wide open and I'm looking at my shoes
Just praying that we never have to be in the same room
Would you sing the song you wrote for me?
What would you ever do?
Just find another pretty girl to harmonize with you

All is fine
Sometimes I even keep what's mine so
Take your time, I'm already gone

They say she dodged a bullet, but it put her in the ground
Now she can feel everything and live in every sound
In the night he's wide awake, he feels her all around
It hurts to hear her laughing, she's at peace with what she's found

All is fine
Sometimes I even keep what's mine so
Take your time, I'm already gone

Excelsior!

All Is Fine

Johanna Samuels - All Is Fine

The second single from the forthcoming album 'Excelsior!', out May 14th via Mama Bird Recording Co. (US/World) & Basin Rock (UK/EU). Pre-order/save/stream/share here: https://smarturl.it/js-excelsior

/// Credits:

Written by Johanna Samuels and Olivia Kaplan
Produced and Mixed by Sam Griffin Owens
Recorded at Flying Cloud Studios in West Shokan, NY
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Album Art by Vincent Bancheri
Cover Photo by Ellyn Jameson

/// Players:

Rhodes and Vocals by Johanna Samuels
Guitar by Harrison Whitford and Sam Griffin Owens
Bass by Garret Lang
Harmonies by Olivia Kaplan

/// Lyrics:

Don't let me stop you in your tracks
I just wanna know when you're coming back
Go get the deal, go make your name
Say all the names that you gotta say
It's not like I'm waiting

It's not like I'm sitting here alone
Doing dumb shit on the phone
Trying to kiss you through the screen
Trying to see you and not be seen
It's not like I'm waiting
Completely indifferent
Can't you tell the difference?

And if I was waiting
It would be cause
A girl's used to fading herself out

I've got a funny thing about
Saying what I want aloud
You push it so far down below
It's here with its hands around my throat
It's not like I'm waiting

I'm fading 

Most people say it's nature's way
That I give and that you take
What will it be, My Love, today?
It's getting hard for me to say

Cause if I want
You baby
You can't just watch
As I'm fading myself out
As I'm fading myself out

Nature's Way

Johanna Samuels - Nature's Way

You settle like stardust, in the darkness darling 
Don't worry where the car is parked, we'll grab it in the morning 
The tell tale tequila tears in a taxi cab 
I talked with my friend the television, while you took a nap 
And the moon shed light like skin
You were lily-white with lilac lips
Oh Catherine, my Catherine
My long-stemmed loneliness, your beck and call 
We were roadside roses, we were record rainfall 
I saw your ghost in Golden Gate Park glowing in the city lights 
While some growing pains never go away, they only keep you up at night 
Upon the paisley pillowcase, where your pretty head's been 
Did I miss something? Was it something I did? 
Oh Catherine, my Catherine


© & ℗ 2013 Mama Bird Recording Co. under license from Widower.
Recorded/Engineered by Cory Gray.
Mastered by Carl Saff.

WIDOWER - Oh Catherine, My Catherine

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