On limited edition Crystal Cherry vinyl, your ears will delight in the sounds and sensations of our album, GOOD SONGS. With gorgeous design by David J. Woodruff and Busman's Holiday, your eyes will have a feast of a time too. Illustrations from the band included on the dust cover. Pick it up now and often!
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For the first time ever, listen to our album GOOD SONGS in glorious plastic! Yes, all on the finest of compact disks is this album for your consumption. Encased in a digipak wallet, with liner notes to boot, with all artwork by Busman's Holiday and David J. Woodruff, this will be a cherished piece amongst your audio collection.
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about
Addison's Notes:
This started out way different and thank the fuckin heavens it landed where it did. Initially we recorded a version with Patrice and Jamie in Montreal but however we described it to them didn't turn out right. The track sounded like a blues bar band and that wasn't gonna do.
We had a real blast laying down the percussion and guitar all in one go at Primary Sound, asking a few good drummer buddies to help us out with it. Lewis planned on the guitar being a scratch track but the energy was right in the room so no additional take was needed. He killed it. I was delighted to assemble a drum set sound between friends, with me taking care of the role of the bass drum.
At some point, I put together that the sound we were pursuing was that of a psychedelic band from Thailand. The video of the group found us somehow and they're amazing, partially because the band has an organic, community vibe to it. It looks like they're playing a wedding perhaps, which is maybe the best music we could imagine for a wedding. That or polka.
Brenda's Friend, or more specially Erin Tobey & Amy Oelsner, made an appearance on the track for this drone vocal part we came up with. We love them and their angelic voices, and as such we asked them to lay down a few more choice vocals for us on the rest of the album.
Lewis asked me to sing like Curtis Mayfield, and so I did.
The Moog bass is sinful all thanks to Lew.
Lew's Notes:
This riff came from a writing session where my string broke and out of exasperation I detuned the whole guitar without thought. After 5 minutes or so playing in the mystery tuning this riff came out. It was much better than whatever I was writing before. The treasure of playing broken things.
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Stephen Deusner wrote of the track:
As they returned home to finish the album at Primary Sound Studios just outside of Bloomington, the songs took them further and further afield. They mutated and metamorphosed, offering glimpses of unlimited possibilities. “These songs churned for a long time,” says Lewis. “We spent a lot of time thinking about the record and paring it down to the barest essentials. The songs all started one way and ended up sounding completely different.” Their first version of opener “Only Ones” sounded like a blues-rock jam but transformed when they became obsessed with a very particular strain of Thai music. Says Addison, “That first version was not the direction we wanted to go with that song, so we kept going with it. Lew had seen a video of a wedding in Thailand where they have this kind of psychedelic marching band with electric guitar, bass, and a mishmash of percussion.” The final version has an exquisitely rambunctious, unpredictable energy, in playful contrast with the band’s careful, exacting songcraft as they deploy pots-and-pans percussion, runaway strings, a disembodied female duet, and a scribbly guitar lick against Addison’s acrobatic falsetto.
lyrics
Feeling like the only one
No more feelin’ like a lonely one
Feeling like the only ones do
Priest and soldier
Money folder
All will die the same
Streaming faster
Slave and master
Turtles have short legs
Feeling like the only one
No more feelin’ like a lonely one
Feeling like the only ones do
All this time that I feel we are wasting
Are you tired of the food you are tasting?
Like the sound a preacher feeds the hallow
Let’s get wild, let’s get lost, let’s get wallow
Feeling like the only one
No more feelin’ like a lonely one
Feeling like the only ones do
So much love that we all are concealing
Like a river we have dammed to repeating
There’s no time to be against another
When we love, we are one, we are brothers
Feeling like the only one
No more feelin’ like a lonely one
Feeling like the only ones do
credits
from Good Songs,
released October 13, 2022
The Cast
(In order of appearance)
Lewis Rogers - Guitar, Moog bass, auxiliary percussion, vocals
The Graveside Groovies:
Rob Stockwell - Chimes
Josh Olivo - Hi-hats, snare
Nathan Vollmar - Snare, cymbal
Addison Rogers - Bass drum, extra percussion, vocals
All songs & music by Busman’s Holiday - Addison Rogers & Lewis Rogers
Mark Lawson - Producer, sound engineer, & mixing in Montreal, QB
Jake Belser - Additional engineering in Bloomington, IN
Evan Berg - Assistant engineering in Bloomington, IN
Matt Nowlin - String & horn arrangement along with Lewis Rogers
Alex DeTurk - Mastering at The Bunker in Brooklyn, NY
Big Man - Hondo Kirby
Recorded at Sonovox Studios in Montreal, Quebec, CA
and Primary Sound in Bloomington, IN.
Additional recordings made at The Bungalew in Bloomington, IN.
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