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10 shadow - vampire deer
i wrote this in 1997, cribbing considerably from psalm 91 - i'm not as optimistic or as confident as the psalmist was - i'm also pretty disturbed to see how much more relevant it is now than it was then [more inside]
09 holler at the sky - vampire deer
actually this is the first song of the second cd, not that anyone's burning this to cd, but ... it's also another monologue and dulcimer based tune ... [more inside]
08 magpie - vampire deer
this started as a duet between a korg monologue and mountain dulcimer [more inside]
07 crazy party - vampire deer
some people keep going until they can't - i wound up watching more than i did, but got to the point where i couldn't watch either [more inside]
06 robot morning - vampire deer
back in 1976, the guy who owned the bus and was going to take it out west was an artist - and what he liked to sketch was pictures of things like dead puppies with the new NCR barcodes on them - it was punk and conceptually on it ... [more inside]
05 blessed are - vampire deer
the more things change the more they remain the same [more inside]
04 careful - vampire deer
i've never been comfortable with flag waving and now i'm even less so [more inside]
03 make it rough - vampire deer
so small compared with the size of the world [more inside]
02 division avenue - vampire deer
division avenue is a street in grand rapids - it's the few blocks south of downtown i have in mind - used to live in a residence hotel in 77 for a bit there - it's changed and it's not changed - but there are many places like it [more inside]
01 appaloosa springs - vampire deer
this is a rather complex album or story - parts of it seem like 1977 and parts of it seem like 2017 and it's inspired by both ... [more inside]
04 - obscura sunrise - vampire deer
the night is over, traffic picks up and there's still a vague hint of smoke in the air ... [more inside]
03 dance candlejazz - vampire deer
well, i forgot to number the first two songfiles - but there's only 4 songs, which figures for a bunch of jammy instrumentals - this is more like when there's a little chill in the air and the fires are getting low
02 dreams of ocean fire - vampire deer
further on that night - a rather spaced instrumental
01 obscura beach - vampire deer
a surfy instrumental for the time of evening when the sun's just gone down and the campfires are starting
07 - no rain - vampire deer
last song of the album - kind of seems to be about my life right now ... [more inside]
06 wondering - vampire deer
next to last song [more inside]
05 - january - vampire deer
or the song of this summer [more inside]
04 - down in downtown - vampire deer
downtown, no finer place for sure
downtown, everything's waiting for you [more inside]
03 no one gets away - vampire deer
under heavy manners [more inside]
02 the future - vampire deer
perhaps no future was the optimist view [more inside]
01 miss misery - vampire deer
new album is called no rain - this song's about someone who's not winning [more inside]
07 pop pop - vampire deer
it's like one of those things you can't stop thinking of - but i have a car wash heart [more inside]
06 comstock bar - vampire deer
the funny place is i never did find this place again and drive by it over 10 times a year and still can't figure out where it was [more inside]
05 - the valley - vampire deer
not the official soundtrack [more inside]
04 - ninja star by vampire deer
war cry [more inside]
03 11.58 - vampire deer
does anybody really know what time it is? [more inside]
02 my buddy cain - vampire deer
he's everybody's buddy, just ask him [more inside]
01 vermont sunrise - vampire deer
another album, vermont sunrise, starts with a song about escapism, which never really works, does it? at least that's what all the old hippies say [more inside]
8 - vampire deer - ring blues
last song in my rpm album, 10 pounds of blues in a 5 pound bag [more inside]
7 - vampire deer - firefly blues
this is no 7 of my rpm album - what happened to no 6? - i don't know how to count beyond 4 [more inside]
5 - vampire deer - grand haven blues
6th song of my rpm album - kind of creepy ... [more inside]
5 - vampire deer - golden ball
5th song - this is a strange ancestor of the well known gallows pole or gallus pole song that has lots of variants - i ran across this one in various versions and this is how it turned out [more inside]
4 - vampire deer - screwed up planet blues
another song in my rpm album [more inside]
3 - not coming home - vampire deer
song 3 of my rpm album, 10 pounds of blues in a 5 pound bag [more inside]
vampire deer - 2 - circus blues
song 2 [more inside]
vampire deer - 1 - ten pounds
i did another album for rpm this year - 10 pounds of blues in a 5 pound bag - in this song, i go to work, leave work, meet the president and go back to work
and yes, it's all blues this time [more inside]
13 miracle bar - vampire deer
recklessness - the 13th and final song of birdie [more inside]
12 save your words - vampire deer
a lament, i think [more inside]
11 bitter little asshole - vampire deer
it's like mr the toad - or mr the trump - or a mini me version of the child they would have [more inside]
10 heaven - vampire deer
no, it's not fair, is it? [more inside]
09 clipboard people - vampire deer
i hang up on survey takers [more inside]
08 crow on a lamppost - vampire deer
del shannon went to my high school 12 years before i did - also hundreds of crows were run over by a train last year in my old hometown and no one understands why the crows let that happen - this is not homer simpson's springfield, it's stranger than that ... [more inside]
07 assassinate the people - vampire deer
history 101 [more inside]
06 ghost on a stick - vampire deer
song 6 of birdie - whatever this is about, it's not good [more inside]
05 blue jay blues - vampire deer
it's about a bird [more inside]
04 take me to the big chief
cause i'm in trouble here ... [more inside]
03 working in the jungle - vampire deer
song 3 of birdie [more inside]
02 pushing a dead man too far - vampire deer
a lament about work [more inside]
01 birdie - vampire deer
first song of new album birdie [more inside]
09 network - vampire deer
9th and last song of plywood [more inside]