1)
Jesus Loves Me I’ve Been Told
2)
I Just Don’t Know Why Dear
3)
Lovely Willowdale
4)
Cheating School
5)
Vulnerable Must Be My Middle Name
6)
Lullaby
7)
Stone On Me
8)
Maundy Thursday 1997
9)
Meriel’s Away
10)
Oh Roger (Who Can Tell?)
11)
Storefront Heart
12)
My Darling
13)
Nearer My God To Thee (Trad.)
14)
Well You Know I Love You Baby.
Track
1 is an intense slide piece, played in dropped D tuning. The in-your-face delivery belies the Gospel
flavour of the lyrics. This track has
achieved some popularity on the Internet.
Track
2 is a very maudlin country tune sung by an abandoned waitress.
Track
3 is a distinctive love song, sung à capella in an English folk style.
Track
4 is a modern country tune, sung to a friend who is cheating on his wife.
Track
5 is a desperate male hurting song, also with a distinctive feel.
Track
6 is about famines and money, sung in East Scots dialect, and played in DADGBE
tuning.
Track
7 is about having lost one’s way.
Track 8 is an experimental poem, also sung à capella, celebrating the passage of the comet Hale-Bopp.
Track 9 is a sad country-flavoured
love song about distance and uncertainty.
Track 10 is about the
vagaries of employment and character.
Tracks 11 and 12 are
about a failed affair, both having a country flavour.
Track 13 is a church
tune played very quietly after the style of John Hurt.
Track 14 is a very
fast finger style blues piece about infatuation.
Tracks 1, 13, and 14
were recorded by Everett Revestein at Chalet Studios, Claremont, ON, June
1997. Track 12 was recorded by Eugene
Fok at Emmanuel Studios, Scarborough ON,
August 1997. All other tracks were
recorded by Bill Petrie at Studio B, Scarborough ON, July-August 1997. CD mixed and mastered by Eugene Fok at
Emmanuel Studios, August 1997.
Canadian content: all
tracks are “MAPL” except track 13 “AP”.
All words and music are Copyright © 1997 Michael Cook except track 13
(Traditional). All rights
reserved. SOCAN. Member CMRRA.
1)
Bell Labs Poem
2)
After Leaving Don’s Place
3)
404
4)
Orangeville
5)
The Pheromone Girl
6)
You Can’t Keep Your Love From Me
7)
Live In The Now
8)
You Know and I Know
9)
All Right Now
10)
She Was Right
11)
London Town (Trad.)
12)
Same Old Blues Again (J.J.Cale)
13)
Learning To Let You Go
14)
Fairweather Blues (words Boyd)
15)
South Coast (Ross/Erskine/Derr)
16)
Your Green Hat
17)
Flubsome.
Track 1 is a very short love
poem spoken by a Bells Labs computer.
Track 2 is an introspective
talking blues song about relationships.
Track 3 is a highway song
about separation, played in a light rock style,.
Track 4 is a long ballad
about visiting a monastery while being totally miserable in love.
Track 5 is about an
independent 1990’s woman.
Track 6 is a dirge about
love’s supposedly eternal nature.
Track 7 is a fast
blues-flavoured song about wanting to live in the moment.
Track 8 is a long slow
talking blues about employment uncertainty and sex.
Track 9 is about taking care
of a sick parent while being in the same situation.
Track 10 is about returning
to Toronto and reawakening lust.
Track 11 is traditional.
Track 12 is a J.J.Cale song
about getting dumped.
Track 13 is a long slow
introspective song sung to the other woman while getting divorced.
Track 14 is science fiction
song, with lyrics taken from John Boyd’s 1968 novel “The Last Starship from
Earth”. The song is sung by a condemned
convict about freedom.
Track 15 is a short version
of a ‘60’s Western song that was recorded, among others, by Rambling Jack Elliott
and The Kingston Trio. The hero’s wife
gets shot and dies.
Track 16 is about getting
fired and being offered an article of clothing.
Track 17 is a comment made
during a studio session (“Eee, that were flubsome!”).
All tracks were recorded and
mixed by Karen Kane except tracks 1 and 3.
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16. 17 were recorded at Michael Cook’s
apartment. All other tracks were
recorded by Karen Kane at Number 9 Studio, Toronto, October through December,
1999. All tracks were mixed 1/2000 by
Karen Kane at Pizzazzudio, Toronto, except tracks 1, 3, 5, and 10. Mastered by João Carvalho at Umbrella Sound,
Toronto, 12/2001. Produced by Karen
Kane.
Canadian content: all tracks
“MAPL”, except 11, 12, 14, and 15 “AP”.
All words and music are Copyright © 2000 Michael Cook except tracks 11
(Traditional), 12 (J.J.Cale, BMI), 14 (words J.Boyd), and 14
(Ross/Erskine/Derr). All rights
reserved. SOCAN. Member CMRRA.
1)
Jock O’Hazeldean (Trad., words Sir W.Scott)
2)
The Plague
3)
Afterglow
4)
Joshua, Joshua
5)
Back In My Body Again
6)
I Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes (Johnson)
7)
Letter To Al
8)
Money, Money, Money
9)
Prodigal Son (Rev.Wilkins)
10)
I Saw a Deer Last Night
11)
It’s Raining, Men
12)
Last Night
13)
Sammy’s Bar (C.Tawney, arr. M.Simpson)
Track 1 is a
traditional Scottish song.
Track 2 is a science
fiction song about bioterror, sung by a doomed rake.
Track 3 is an
instrumental.
Track 4 is about
complaining, mostly about the food, in a Biblical situation.
Track 4 is about a
dead family member and asking for forgiveness.
Track 6 is
traditional.
Track 7 is about
distance and isolation.
Track 8 is a science
fiction song sung by a man who gets cleaned out in a big stock market crash.
Track 9 is
traditional.
Track 10 is about
having empathy for the deer caught in the headlights.
Track 11 is another
science fiction song sung by a whacked out paramilitary leader who wants to
bring down the state, but realizes that his obsession is driving him crazy, so
he decides to take life easy instead.
Track 12 is about the
illusion of true love.
Track 13 is a Cyril
Tawney (modern British naval) folk song about a besotted sailor whose fickle
girl friend dies in a car crash.
CD recorded at Umbrella Sound
and Zolis Studio, Toronto, 12-2000 through 3 2001. All tracks recorded (2000/12-5/2001) and mixed (17+18 May 2001)
by Karen Kane. Mastered November 2001
by Phil Demetro and George Graves at Lacquer Channel. Produced by Kane Kane.
Cover photograph by Liz
Milner (UK).
All words and music Copyright
© 2001 Michael Cook except tracks 1, 6, 9, and 13 as shown above. All rights reserved. Tracks 1,6, and 9 are
believed Public Domain, and track 13 is auth. Cyril Tawney, copyright Dick
James Music Ltd., arr. M.Simpson.
Canadian content: all “MAPL”
except tracks 1, 6, 9, and 13 “AP”.
SOCAN. Member CMRRA.
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