02 _ Tearing the Shirt
03 _ Resume
04 _ Johnny (Written with Wade Summers)
05 _ OK
06 _ Crocodile (Written with Genevieve Haag)
07 _ Matchbox
08 _ The Child That Gypsies Stole
09 _ Pillow
10 _ Leaves Fall
11 _ Drowning Boy
12 _ Jacques' Song
13 _ Wild Mountain Thyme (Traditional; Arrangement and New Lyrics by David James Callan)
All songs by David James Callan Except Where Indicated. Copyright c. 1997 Loki Sings. All Rights Reserved.
This is the album I set out to create when I first began to write and perform in Portland, ME in 1994. Helped by Sol Sender, Kate Schrock, Jen Haag, Russ Werner, Tony Lauritano, Tim Follo, Jay Wills, John Burke, Suzannah Gries, Chandler Klose, Meghan Rush, Brynlyyn Lewis, CAR aka LINCOLNVILLE, The Elvis Room, Raffles' Cafe Bookstore, Raoul's Roadside Attraction, Jason Wilkins, Anni Clark and especially Jacques Schickel and Thurber. Sad songs about drinking, basically. Originally, there was supposed to be a cover of Maggie Roche's "Hammond Song."
"Tearing the Shirt" was written by me with the help of Wade Summers--I'd hum the notes and he'd show me the chords. We'd been in a band together in high school, The Little Baby Sponges, and "Johnny," who had a sex change from his original "Jacquie," was the first song we wrote together, orginally on piano. It was played with a really bad band called The Nudie Kazoos, whose one hit was called "The Silver Turtle (Is Watching You)." We also had a song called "Burning Down the Orphanage" but Dolly Parton wrote a song called that in the 60's. "Crocodile" was a song from a brief project called The Delicate Blossoms, and probably survived to The Gentle Friendly Moisturizer Orchestra, and was a solo spot for Jen Haag, along with a song called "Paper Airplanes" which does not survive.
"Wild Mountain Thyme" is based on two versions: Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and I think they learned it from The MacPeacke Family. It's a traditional melody. I wrote the last stanza based on the extra verse Joan Baez sings in her version. Judy Collins' versions is best though. She's a very under-rated singer, and her mid to late sixties early seventies albums are gorgeous. She's as Ur-Alternative as The Velvet Underground.
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