2. Diamonds
and Gold is
a look at South Africa in the last days of apartheid. |
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3. End of the Roll
is an urban legend
about a carpet layer in a house full of budgies on the wing. |
Lyrics |
4. The
Immaculate Conception is
another urban legend that sounds like a tabloid headline:
"Bullet passes through civil war soldier's scrotum and impregnates
innocent bystander". |
Lyrics |
5. The Groundhog's Day
is either an anthopmorphic
perspective on Feb.2 prognostication, or an autobiographical
comment on procrastination. |
Lyrics |
6. No
News
is an urban legend where "if things can get worse, they
will", kind of cowboy poetry to music and also kind of like
the Louvin Brothers meet Homer and Jethro. |
Lyrics |
7. Rosa
is another urban legend about a dog in a Hong Kong restaurant.
The story had its first appearance in a newspaper in Zurich
Switzerland in 1971. |
Lyrics |
8.
Mexican Pet is
an urban legend that "actually happened to a friend of my
sister in Victoria". |
Lyrics |
9. Teen Angel
(10 second intro only) is a song by Jean
Surrey. It was one of a string of songs from the late
1950s and 1960s in which people, usually teenagers, tragically
died. I included it here as a way of introducing the
song which immediately follows this: "Interchange Two Phases". |
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10. Interchange Two Phases
- Urban legend
meets three phase electric motor theory and then mates with
the "Teen Angel" genre of song popular in the early sixties.
Lots of "ooh wah oohs". |
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11. Ohm's
Law
is a television theme song for a science fiction western
action drama, starring George Simon Ohm, the man who plowed
a major furrow in the field of electical physics by formulating
a relationship between amps, ohms and volts. |
Lyrics |
12. Llewelyn
and Gelert -
This is a cautionary Welsh folk tale that really illustrates
that, even in the 13th century, dogs were not considered
an adequate substitutes for qualified child care workers. |
Lyrics |
13. Time
For the Sunset
is
inspired by the life of Elizabeth Cotton, writer of "Freight
Train" which became a guitar finger picking standard during
the folk music revival of the fifties and sixties. |
Lyrics |
14. We
All Live Here
(round) is a short round (co-written with Susan Bond). |
Lyrics |
15. A
Bell is Only a Bell -
a short anonymous poem provided the seed of inspiration
into this small quest for the "meaning of life". |
Lyrics |
16. Lament
for the Prairie Giants pays
tribute to the passing of the wooden prairie grain elevators
on the Saskatchewan plains.
A brief background |
Lyrics |
17. Prairie Pagans
- A Saskatchewan
crocus hunt ritual. An a-cappella duet with Paddy
Tutty. |
Lyrics |
18. The
Spirit of Giving is
a true family story about how the kids save Christmas.
There is more info on this story; just follow the links: |
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