A playlist for social distancing, curated by Zac Ives / Goner Records (Memphis, TN)Photo © Jamie Harmon

Stay At Home Blues

The unknown

Loves

Guitar World: 1990-2001 - NTS

Peter Jefferies

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Flying Nun

16 track digital recording, 2 April 2013.

sampler, hammered keyboard

A brief encounter

The Shins - New Slang

My crappy version of an amazing band's song

Ariel (babes in toyland acoustic cover)

16 track digital recording, 4 and 5 January 2014
Available on Bandcamp (http://quarkstrangestcharm.bandcamp.com/track/the-unknown)

laptop

Inside The Dream Machine 1993

I Am One (Live)

Mac Demarco - Chamber of Reflection (Slowed)

Single off of the upcoming Cat Signs album that will be out very soon...

Mirrored You

Track 11 from the 2001 album Closed Circuit, Peter's last album.

Peter Jefferies - State of the Nation

I'll Be Lightning

Gather To The Chapel

Soundgarden - Room A Thousand Years Wide (Slow + Reverb)

From the new album CARRIE & LOWELL by Sufjan Stevens
Get it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:

I should have known better
To see what I could see
My black shroud
Holding down my feelings
A pillar for my enemies

I should have wrote a letter
And grieve what I happen to grieve
My black shroud
I never trust my feelings
I waited for the remedy

When I was three, three maybe four
She left us at that video store
Be my rest, be my fantasy

I’m light as a feather
I’m bright as the Oregon breeze
My black shroud 
Frightened by my feelings
I only want to be a relief

No, I’m not a go-getter
The demon had a spell on me
My black shroud
Captain of my feelings
The only thing I want to believe

When I was three, and free to explore
I saw her face on the back of the door
Be my vest, be my fantasy

I should have known better
Nothing can be changed
The past is still the past
The bridge to nowhere
I should’ve wrote a letter 
Explaining what I feel, that empty feeling

Don’t back down, concentrate on seeing
The breakers in the bar, the neighbor’s greeting
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination

Don’t back down, there is nothing left
The breakers in the bar, no reason to live
I’m a fool in the fetter
Rose of Aaron’s beard, where you can reach me

Don’t back down: nothing can be changed
Cantilever bridge, the drunken sailor
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination 

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Sufjan Stevens, "Should Have Known Better"

B-Side from the 1986 Shayne Carter and Peter Jefferies collaborative 7" - 'Randolph's Going Home'.
Limited re-issue for 2015 Record Store Day

Randolph's Going Home 7"

Hooked, Lined and Sunken

Shayne Carter + Peter Jefferies - Hooked, Lined & Sunken

A Side from the 1986 Shayne Carter and Peter Jefferies collaborative 7" - 'Randolph's Going Home'.
Limited re-issue for 2015 Record Store Day


Randolph's Going Home

Shayne Carter + Peter Jefferies - Randolph's Going Home

I Love Rock 'n' Roll - The Jesus and Mary Chain (cover)

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Lyrics:
You looked away 
The memories we had fades away 
And I'm in my room 
Staring at the wall thinking of you 

Today is my birthday 
And I'm in so much shame 
And you thought I forgot 
My chest hurts a lot

Birthdaze

It's All Too Much - Jim Novak featuring Sinatra Monroe

The Buttertones - Bad Girl

Sad Eyes

Endless Summer

In My Room

Kinda Kinks

Wait Till the Summer Comes Along

Peter Jefferies live at Flying Out, 16 April 2016.

Peter Jefferies - On An Unknown Beach

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Stockholm Syndrome

Second single from Shayne P Carter's new album 'Offsider'.
Out September 9 in NZ on Flying Nun Records

Disconnected
From the present state
Our forefathers in their forgotten land
Reawakened
To a new identity
That tall mountain that stands in front of me
Appears to have no name

I know not where I stand

Mystery waters
Around me muttering
Mystery river
Running through my veins

I know not where I stand

You there stranger
Who I half recognise....
Where'd you put my name ?

I know not where I stand -
Where'd you put my name ?

Shayne  P Carter - I Know Not Where I Stand

I'm Your Man

Baptist Memorial

This is my 1998 recording of Gene Clark's song "Here Without You" from the Byrds first album, "Mr Tambourine Man." The guitar used is my Rickenbacker 360-12 string guitar. Thanks for listening.

Here Without You by Gene Clark 1965 (cover)

PETER JEFFERIES
"The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World"
IND 123 CD/LP/MP3

Peter Jefferies’s extraordinary debut solo album, "The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World", first saw life as a cassette via the Xpressway label of Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in 1990. As a result of some international underground acclaim in fanzines and mailorder catalogs – for both the album and a striking 7-inch, “The Fate of the Human Carbine”, released around the same time – it soon appeared on LP and CD as well, through the Ajax label of Chicago. Within a handful of years it slipped out of print and out of sight. Roughly 20 years later that situation is being amended by De Stijl with a vinyl reissue that includes the songs from the attendant single and no amount of remastering whatsoever.

Though no one’s gotten around to writing a book on it yet, "The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World" nonetheless stands as one of the singular singer-songwriter albums of all time, existing on a sparsely populated plane with "Pink Moon", "I Often Dream of Trains", "Blues Run the Game", "Our Mother the Mountain" and not many others. In a sandy voice that soothes and slashes, Jefferies offers a compassionate, piercingly lucid view of the endeavor of life, all our pain and small glories rendered in tones both harrowing and tender. On piano, drums and percussion, he pounds out melodies that roar, sweep and lilt, accompanied on many songs by the serrated guitars of a variety of players. Featuring a small team of South Island heavy-hitters – all three members of the Dead C as well as David Mitchell (3Ds), Alastair Galbraith, Kathy Bull (Look Blue Go Purple, Cyclops), Nigel Taylor and Robbie Muir (who’s cobilled on the single) – Last Great Challenge provides a pivot point in Jefferies’s formidable recording career, which included two bands he shared with his brother Graeme in the ’80s, Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment, and four further solo albums, as well as stints in bands here (Mecca Normal, Two Foot Flame) and there (Plagal Grind, Cyclops, and collaborations with Shayne Carter, Jono Lonie and Chris Smith).

This immediate and affecting album has been a comfort and a guide for me since it came out. Sit a spell and see if it doesn’t speak to you as well.

~ Mike Wolf, NYC, 2013

Peter Jefferies - On An Unknown Beach

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