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Sat, 30 Apr 2005
This is an 18th century tune, but the first version I ever heard was by Ween! The version here comes from an old collection of folk songs and has a verse my dad and I added. It's actually supposed to be sung by a guy in his grave and his love, and the woman wants one last kiss, and he says that he can't give it to her because it would kill her, so she plans to poison herself to be with him. It's wicked sad. I first performed this song on Halloween night in a duet with Matty Charles!
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This is me on organ and vocals and my dad on guitar and a cheap little drum machine. My dad wrote this one day and we recorded it the next. My mom worried about the lyrics but I think this song is about sacrifice and being strong enough to go to the next level. It could be about lots of different things, I guess.
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The great thing about this is the five layers of cello recorded in my living room by the amazing and wonderful Margie Wienk, who just played one part after the other while she listened on headphones, without ever making a mistake! You can kinda hear that I had a cold when I recorded this. I've never performed this live because I can't imagine it without cellos. Someday...
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This is my first band, The Vitatonics, recorded live in March 2003 at Arliene Grocery on the lower east side in NYC. They were such a great band! Sort of a Providence super group with Paige van Antwerp and Geoff Griffin from Plymouth Rock on drums and guitar, Joel Thibodeau of String Builder on guitar and lap steel, and Alec K. Redfearn of the Eyesores and Gutter Helmet on bass. I played rhythm guitar and sang and was really unbelievably lucky to have such a great band when I was only eleven! My dad and I wrote this one together.
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Fri, 29 Apr 2005
This isn't the really old version that I thought I put up. This is the one from my demo. It features Joe Hocking on guitar.