Survivorman - Campfire Kings - Embers CD
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$15.99 USD
Details
Most albums recorded have what the artists call “throw away songs”. The songs seemed like a good creative idea at the time, but in the end they either just didn’t fit in with the final tracks of the album or they weren’t good enough. For me, as a song writer, this is always heartbreaking. It’s hard to put many hours into a piece of art only to decide later…..nah! With these four songs on Embers, my feeling was not so much “nah” as it was more a matter of them not quite fitting in with another album project I was working on at the time: Mother Earth. This EP is really just for me and the players. For “Wasting”, I actually kept the sound of Eddie Vedder in my head, as the voice I would’ve loved to have heard singing this tune. “Better” was a chance to show how I think harmonica can really blend well with horns on some straight ahead rock. The version of “When It’s Gone’ is actually the penultimate version before Mike Clink asked if he could take the song and start from scratch. I had to release it though because of the incredible orchestration by Chris Carmichael. And “Lies”. Well, that’s a whole other story. Bryan Potvin, Ian Auger and I had a lot of fun putting this together, most of it being the brainchild of Bryan’s. He wanted to go with a dark set of lyrics but he doesn’t have the hutzpah that I do when it comes to being dark and I know to this day he was ok with the line “You’re so full of it” but he hates the line “Take your little trip and fuck off by yourself” he’s just such a loving and caring person he cringed every time I sang that line. A line that I, of course, being the vulgar one, love leaving in.
Track List
-Wasting
-Better
-Lies
-When It's Gone (Demo)
Survivorman - Campfire Kings - Embers CD
Regular price
$15.99 USD
Details
Most albums recorded have what the artists call “throw away songs”. The songs seemed like a good creative idea at the time, but in the end they either just didn’t fit in with the final tracks of the album or they weren’t good enough. For me, as a song writer, this is always heartbreaking. It’s hard to put many hours into a piece of art only to decide later…..nah! With these four songs on Embers, my feeling was not so much “nah” as it was more a matter of them not quite fitting in with another album project I was working on at the time: Mother Earth. This EP is really just for me and the players. For “Wasting”, I actually kept the sound of Eddie Vedder in my head, as the voice I would’ve loved to have heard singing this tune. “Better” was a chance to show how I think harmonica can really blend well with horns on some straight ahead rock. The version of “When It’s Gone’ is actually the penultimate version before Mike Clink asked if he could take the song and start from scratch. I had to release it though because of the incredible orchestration by Chris Carmichael. And “Lies”. Well, that’s a whole other story. Bryan Potvin, Ian Auger and I had a lot of fun putting this together, most of it being the brainchild of Bryan’s. He wanted to go with a dark set of lyrics but he doesn’t have the hutzpah that I do when it comes to being dark and I know to this day he was ok with the line “You’re so full of it” but he hates the line “Take your little trip and fuck off by yourself” he’s just such a loving and caring person he cringed every time I sang that line. A line that I, of course, being the vulgar one, love leaving in.
Track List
-Wasting
-Better
-Lies
-When It's Gone (Demo)