Tag: music video
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It’s not about you, man
Then on September 30, I recorded this live version of “Saint Lucifer,” which started off (and still is, when I play it solo) a Dylanesque folk song with a hook vaguely reminiscent of Casey Jones. It has evolved, on the record, into more of a rocker.
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News is fake and the world is flat
and a junkie’s in the alley with a baseball bat!
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Cigarettes and Skoal
For the record, I know the signature drink at Pedro’s was the kamikaze, but hurricanes scanned better.
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He didn’t get it from the wind
This is one of the last tunes I wrote for the album and in some ways it’s my favorite, in that it doesn’t really imitate a specific stye or other type of song, exactly, though the other day I wondered if maybe it was a bit influenced by mid-70s Floyd stuff like “Wish Your Were…
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Don’t tell me all your secrets, talking crow!
This song, “Down to the Mountain,” is made from some of the oldest ingredients. On the album it has developed into a kind of secular gospel tune but when I play it solo, it’s bog-standard string-band stylee:
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Verdigris and indigo
I was in the midst of writing”The Long Haired Kings” when I first went into the studio to start working on the album, so we tackled it first. Here’s a live version from September 16, 2024: