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Slingblades of Husbandry EP

by Brother Andy Newton

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1.
Burmese Tiger Trap 02:47
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If I knew everything Would turn out bad That’d made you this sad Do you wanna claw out of here, to survive? Hush the jackal in your ear Don’t choke on the knife Shana na na na na na Burmese tiger trap If you go ahead unveil your eyes and look with me I won’t patronize your horror story What can I say to you Cept “I understand” I put my hand over my mouth And the other in your hand
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Midnite Cotillion 02:50
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Speeding up the “1” for summer fun Holding hands with my favorite someone Laser sight on a mushroom cloud and a figured costume ball We moved in contradance sowing wild oat Fingers breezed your hair and your petticoat Faces wax and wane but this I know, that you eclipsed my heart Standing off the Western Seaboard now, underneath shining stars and crowds falling in love Fall so easily (in love) Fall so easily in love Midnight Cotillion It’s how the west was won Numerology is following the steps My blood it pumps, it pumps, the ante raises bets Your objections noted comically dalliance the old quadrille Its how the west, it’s how the west, it’s how the west was won
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Hungry Heart 03:19
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Got a hungry heart Panther on the prowl Chrome heart growls the kill pumping clutch, grind gears and turn the key she’s growling like a beast 400 horses autobahn wish and dream in bucket seats Leather and sweat and gasoline I gotta hungry heart Drinking my adrenaline I gotta hungry heart Revving up cuz I want more, yeah I gotta hungry heart Boots push pedal to the floor Greasepaint buzz my core Burn dreams and scorch the score Seed the dream, flee the scene she makes it real Strap in, don’t think, just feel Pump the brakes hear her howl I found forever now Driving the long way home Got a hungry heart heart heart
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I Get the Feeling You Don't Love Me Anymore 04:17
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We used to straddle the sky and ride it all night well, with you by my side was it something I said, are you being weird, or is it all in my head? nothing to do, looking for you I still remember how this story should go I get the feeling you don’t love me any more Turn the knife on its edge, see where it lands talk me off the ledge can’t find right words to close, it’s completely insane but baby that’s how this goes I get the feeling you don’t love me any more broke on the wheels of living, I’ve turned it true In brokenness bring healing, love from my wound I get the feeling you don’t love me any more
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Fragile Flowers 04:06
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On my Mt. Zion, on the far side of the crystal sea There’s my garden: mums, hyacinth, and gerbera daisies Things were growing so well, as far as I could tell One day it happened--I bent down from where I stood My plants were brown and brittle choked by weeds and black wormwood And things were falling apart like I never knew they could Fragile flowers …. Petals fall and float to the earth To grow again My toes felt cracked earth and I started to move again I planted new seeds, seeds of rice and oats and corn and grain And as I looked skyward I caught a drop of rain
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The Long Hard Drag 02:18
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I’m so glad to see you I’m so glad you’ve given up the ghost It’s all coming up roses Sun is shining and dreams were dripped for you The last time I saw you I didn’t say goodbye I took one long hard drag Let’s go rev the engine Turn up your telecaster loud The waves crest your beachhead A Light cracks the corners of my heart Let’s go rev the engine
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Sorta Story 04:58
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Chapter 1 you’ve made mistakes But so have I so it’s ok How can I somehow remind you We’re gonna make it through When it’s been a hellish week and neither of us are first to speak I’ll help you remind me With Polaroid memory You were always good for a yarn, yeah So spin me another one It’s my sort of story Where the good guy always wins The protagonist gets his man And the girl always gets the guy in the end It’s my sort of story When I let you take the wheel The road yawns on for miles still I’ll make you turn to me And tell me a story The exposition tells us all Of a rising action’s fall Like the climax Of a dog-eared paperback With a beginning, middle, end Ghost-written by a Friend I’ll live the epilogue instead It’s my sort of story

about

recorded in december of 2012.
all songs copyright 2013 andy newton/mercybeat publishing (bmi).

Slingblades of Husbandry is the digitally EP from Memphis-based Brother Andy Newton. Released June of 2k13, Slingblades... is for music junkies and poptimists that still like guitars in their coffee, and the coffee shop where they drink said java is where melody is king and electric guitars guide the music like banks of Big Muddy. Described by some as a musical meeting place of Radiohead, Jimmy Eat World and The Beach Boys, the seven-song extended player recall’s early ’90’s college-rock rife with power-pop overtones. This album is for those that still want surprise in their rock n roll, those that care for a hint of danger. It’s a reaction against the over-wrought processing and impotent perfection of modern music production. Surfy, wet guitars broadstroke the album and the sonic tone centers solidly in a lively Albini-era Pixies sound recalling, at times, that power trio from Aberdeen.

Recorded Christmas of ’12 and lovingly hand-crafted on the grace of friends, with songs in hand, Andy conscripted the help of a few buddies to help him play, record and mix. His wife stopped in to contribute vocals on the ethereal Fragile Flowers, and savant Ben Banti sighed out the Moog solo on Hungry Heart in one pass. British expat drummer and co-worker Simon Alexander’s drumming is crucial to the loose, live, and dripping room noise-y feel. A noted session player and drummer for The Departure, Alexander’s keen ear for pre-production and commitment to feel helps the record transcend most singer-songwriter debuts.

Hailing from Memphis, TN, Newton subtly nods to Big Star more than Isaac Hayes, but demonstrates a commitment to independent production and artistic vision like STAX) by way of a Michigan adolescence. The first official album using his own name uncloaks a newfound confidence as Newton comes out from behind multiple band monikers. 30 years of age brings with it a focus, a parsing of tastes and a security in a knowing what you like and what you don’t. Previously burrowing across hard drives multiple albums that never saw the light of day, and a stream of singles under the name The Silver Singers, Slingblades... features predominately new material written past year-and-half. Newton lovingly chose songs that exhibit a man in growth--becoming a husband and a fathering twins, feeling guided by another hand himself. Themes lean into family life, career, and spirituality in the pop singer-songwriter tradition of a McCarney Ram, or Lennon’s Double-Fantasy.

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released May 28, 2013

Performed by Andy Newton and Simon Alexander.
Special appearances by Ben Banti, Emily Newton, and Jonathan McIntosh.
Enigneered by Andy Newton
Mixed and mastered by Andy Newton and Noah Glenn.

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Hailing from Memphis, TN, Brother Andy Newton nods to Big Star more than Isaac Hayes, and shows a commitment to independent production and confident powerpop.

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