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A piano ballad wedding song (why have I written so many wedding songs?) for Janet and Brent. For what it’s worth, my wife and I introduced Janet and Brent. Upright bass by Brian Cutler (Fairground).

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I spent all these years fighting other people’s fires
instead of lighting my own fuse in this rainy-ass town
We the beautiful freaks dragging dutiful dreams
now we stand and watch the viaduct and our old haunts coming down

We met by chance on a Sunday afternoon
now it’s midnight in mountains ‘neath the Cascade moon
Hidden trails and spinnin’ vinyl and holy punk rock shows
you’re my refuge, you’re my city, I ain’t lettin’ go

I sell old guitars at the end of the runway
and I sing the rock’n’roll about this city full of cranes
But it costs too much to live here, them desperate hearts they disappear
I nearly hopped aboard the King Station train

Willie braids and Marshall stacks and Z-Dog barkin’ in the back
let’s laugh and kiss and pop the top on another Rainier six-pack
The four- and six-string sound, darlin’ you’re the one that I found
let’s dance and Do the Gorgon and sugar let’s shake the shack

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from New Frontier​/​Ancient Slab, released November 5, 2021
Brian Cutler: upright bass

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M.X. Turner New Orleans, Louisiana

M.X. Turner has been playing and releasing records since the 1980s. Loud, passionate and wide-ranging, Turner's albums take on the system and mend the heart. Turner has played with The Service, Bad Manners, The Devil's Advocates, Diet Tribes, The Spunk Lads, RebelMart and South Sound Tug & Barge. New Frontier/Ancient Slab is his first solo album in a quarter-century. ... more

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