My heteronym daydream cowboy Stryker West said it was high time for another country-fried set, so who was I to refuse?…
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[aired] DaCaLuF 341 – “Love in This Land”
DaCaLuF – Saison 3 – Ep41 – Santa Marta from David Bellais on Vimeo.
Santa Marta (Colombie) avec les copains! (“Santa Marta (Colombia) with friends!”)
Musique : Love in this Land par Westy Reflector
Psyched to see a new DaCaLuf adventure soundtracked with a song of mine. Going back a few years (2014!),…
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Solo Set: Saturday 20 May
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Halyards in Gowanus, I’m flying solo and electric, opening for the debut of xclnt friends The Tell. On for ~half-hour starting 9:30…
The Tell is a trio formed of the core of After School Special: Josh Matthews, Ashley Semrick-DesRochers, and David Miller.…
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[record] cipher /e dreams
liner notes:
…A soundtrack for the simulation reset.
“A cloud fitted with an iron scaffold,” wrote Disquiet’s Marc Weidenbaum about me. Weidenbaum’s analogy is a spot-on fractal, in this case of my overall approach to songwriting and composing. The “cloud” speaks to my playing with abstraction and taking flights of spaced-out fancy; the “iron scaffold” to my love and reverence for accessible, turn the radio up songs.
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[track] Love In This Land
Written early July 2016 on the way home from a final visit to my wife’s family farm in Orrtanna, Pennsylvania, outside Gettysburg. RIP, Aunt Suzanne…
This track also grieves not for an America that was – but for an America that could have been.
A few hours west of the City line
About 200 miles as the crow flies
Your family farm up on that hill
A place that made time stand stillWhere Saturday nights on the outskirts of town
and ways of life were hand-me-downs
Every sunrise let you know just where you standThere was love in this land
But time made other plans
In time you’ll understand
How much love was in this landNow we’re taking one last drive tonight
To say one long last goodbye
To the land that held your family name
Thru an America getting auctioned awayBy a world designed with no stop just go
That knows you never miss what you never know
That’s countin’ on you to forget where you standAnd all the love in this land
When the radio starts playing favorite songs
You can’t help (but) wonder where we went wrongThe moms and dads pass’d away
The kids flew away on the interstate
The farm is now in other hands
It’s up to you to still give a damn