Beautifully constructed.  Pensive and reflective prose with a lilting and undulating musical bed.  An introspective and satisfying listen.

Back in here again, I thought I'd stick around after 'As Time Goes By' and remembered how lovely Corinne's voice is on this and how poignant the words are. Brilliantly played, Marty.

Nicely arranged this, these changes are lovely a warm - sweetly yum,  Sung lovely. 

Really nicely considered song writing for my ear. I can hear the effort and emotion has gone into this work.. I've really enjoyed Martin/gang. Great work all round.. love those oohs at the end :) Nice nice. 

Apriluaryember. Great word. Gentle voice.

Love the tone and timbre of the vocals... the delicacy of the guitar and piano fills really complement them. And just when it seems ourely folk, you throw a jazz partial progression. Very classy.

Beautiful  song,  superb  vocals  and  arrangement !

Calendar calls to me,
deadlines coming on again.
They never end.
Apriluaryember,
I get confused.

But I like the way
the sun shines better,
so low in these chilly skies,
the distant blue, luminous in clouds of grey.
It reminds of your eyes,
between the rainclouds.

You're so far.
You're miles from here.
Back secure in your hometown,
I should have known,
I should have known.

Still i like the way
the sun sets early,
red in the rust of this horizon.
Sometimes I seem to need a reason.
Other times I make another try.
Make another try.

Calendar gives its orders.
Now it's my time to go,
Go down into that old desk drawer.
into a dark and disused corner.

I should know,
I should have seen it coming.
Well, yes, I guess I saw it coming.

Down your road,
down your street,
down your lane.
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from Return to Normal's second LP, Blinking in the Brackens, now available for download and as a physical CD on Bandcamp at: http://returntonormal.bandcamp.com/

Recorded at our home in North Judson, Indiana; final mix and master by Jon Huxtable, smallfishrecordings.

Calendar - Return to Normal

2023 - For the past few months I've been working with Public Resource, a California based non-profit to release an extensive collection of older music for free use. In addition to audio, we'll be releasing the music as MIDI and musicxml. Last week we started posting a new featured piece every week on the Public Resource Soundcloud page (@PublicResource). Follow there, or look for frequent reposts here. It'll include classical music, pop music before 1927, ragtime, folk songs, and more. The main collection will be at the Internet Archive, and will be called the "Internet Jukebox". I'll post more about it as it grows.

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