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Groanbox

by Groanbox

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    Comes in a sleeve with artwork from Al Capone's hideaway in Quadeville, Ontario.

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Demon Truck 03:05
Swerving and speeding up the country road Seeking fresh kills to stack in heavy loads They come in search of the giant bones delish And smash to smithereens all who try to resist Once towering titans revered in ancient times Now hacked, hewn, cut down in their prime No stone unturned until they get what they want They’ll steamroll their way through your hollers and haunts Oh don't push your luck Run run away from the demon truck Oh, don't get stuck in the muck And get run over by the demon truck Follow the little chipmunk He'll take us away from the demon truck Over the snagged barbed wire we jump To run run away from the demon truck You can hear them coming from ten miles out Belching smoke, making a deep rumbling sound And when they come, they unleash the beasts Whose noisy arms have fast-moving razor sharp teeth Chakabook Chakabookchak Chakabook Chakabookchak Your only choice is to flee further into the woods Lest you have a death-wish to be trampled under foot And then they’re speeding back up the country road Bearing their fresh kills stacked up in heavy loads So...don't push your luck Run run away from the demon truck Oh, don't get stuck in the muck And get run over by the demon truck Follow the little chipmunk He'll take us away from the demon truck Over the snagged barbed wire we jump To run run away from the demon truck
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Deep tree diving, oh.
4.
Way down in the dark part of town It aint nothing but a senorita I heard a hey nanny nanny Go and tell your daddy I’m the one they’re gonna call your pa Sun shines by the hole in the wall Raindrops falling from under her brella Eyeballs and ghosts in the halls Blinking at the traffic lights Each and every drop never stops, till its found its way Every single beam finds its meaning in another’s open eye When the roots are by the river home’s a changing place And the face you see in each is nothing but the face that you deserve Sticks says “honey I’m home” To each and every single lady It makes me laugh and wheeze “God damn” He’s the youngest oldest man in town I saw him sitting on a bench With Tuba Smith, the ambassador of Jackson Square Playing his horn in the pouring rain When the lighting strikes Each and every drop never stops, till its found its way Every single beam finds its meaning in another’s open eye When the roots are by the river home’s a changing place And the face you see in each is nothing but the face that you deserve
5.
Bare, Foot, In, The, Ninth Barefoot in the Ninth Garden Gone Facing Replacing Barefoot in the Ninth Garden Gone Facing Replacing 1, A, N, E, 9, 1, 3, No, Tres-pass, For, 'Til, Bur-gun-dy, Ram-part, Sis-ter, To, The, Le-vy, House, Of, Pat-sy, West, Gone, Shir-pee Barefoot in the Ninth Garden Gone Facing Replacing Barefoot in the Ninth Garden Gone Facing Replacing The, Old, Plum, Isl-and, Pooch, Just, Wad-dled, By, As, Told, By, Jon-ny, As, Fam-ous-ly, Sur-vived, Kat-ri-na, To, Go, To, Lit-ter, Homes, With, Pups, Of, Love, For, Ma-ny, Child-ren, pro-vide, love, they, so, well, De-serve. Bare, Foot, In, The, Barefoot in the Ninth Garden Gone Facing Replacing Barefoot in the Ninth Garden Gone Facing Replacing Barefoot in the Ninth Garden Gone Facing Replacing Facing Replacing
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Build on straight lines and lay out grids Right angles, no tangles, no sediment Order to chaos, light where it’s dark Planning and zoning, with public parks Subdivide, make it bona fide Concrete slabs, and bromides Steel frames, pumps and oil pipelines Cut out the meander to save time The root will split the rock Cut out the meander to save time The root will split the rock Cut out the meander to save time Laws of nature versus laws of man Rippling out again and again
 A squandered war so absurdly seen In eroding coasts and rising seas The die is most certainly cast For all of us even those who can grasp
 That strangle vines will break open the locks The root will one day split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock If it’s dominion over harmony Decadence over parsimony Why such shock and dread When the storms rear uglier heads? 
The die is most certainly cast For all of us even those who can grasp
 The prisoner of war will break free of the stocks The root will one day split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock The root will split the rock
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Wolfe Ridge 03:17
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We're all dressed in our best luck, and this marriage Is cast in a bottle, well... Here we go A nine-iron toast to Mum for a raise Was that belt-buckle-bastard-leg-hold-quickstep Brand of trucker-disco that's killing my knees I got no clue what he's saying But it sure is comforting to see someone Old and good at it In the older days this room would be filled With smoke Now it's just empty: Everyone's outside It's a long day for the 99% fat The planted bulb and What was it? The... Weasel's egg Must've dropped hundreds last night And I won't be surprised if all those Marshdale Loons Left purple scars Down at the levy or wherever we were on our way back Wow, look at her She must be saying 1962 from her hips And 1993 from her hips down Ah, I just need a blanket for these bloody finches in my head.
10.
Katrina 03:37
Katrina I dig your tiny dresses in boxes By the door Katrina I wish you’d come and listen to the music Coming up through the floor The boys here do nothing but play Up all night and up all day Schroeder said make ourselves at home I hope you don’t leave us here alone Katrina Moonlight is calling you to come down From your bed Katrina Your magic fabric is dancing With the dead Did you leave them as a witchy muse Or some unseeming ruse I sure wish that you were here Cause I’m under the delusion that you’d make things clear Katrina Come and join the party on North Roman and Reynes Katrina Those tiny funky fabrics are with me To this very day Told my friends in Jackson Square Told the Indians uptown Told the old man and the storm Told Satchmo down in Holy Cross Katrina come on round Katrina come on round
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Adios Plato 02:06

about

Recorded across two sessions in Ontario in 2013 and New Orleans in 2015, this album represents the unshackling of the Groanbox sonic confines. Nothing is preconceived and everything originates in the moment, germinating in the experiences at hand and nurtured by their surroundings, the band conspires to unfetter themselves from musical confinement. The aural landscape is provided by the recording locations: the instruments and the insects of the rural shack in Ontario; the crashing and destruction of the broken down cabin that was rumoured to be Al Capone's hideout; the drips, echoes and screeches of bats as music rang through the night in the underground caves of Bonnechere. The words and melodies are saturated with the culture and history that only New Orleans can lay claim to. To celebrate the 10th year of the band, this collection of songs represents the next mutation in Groanbox's continual creative evolution.

credits

released July 7, 2015

Written, performed and produced by Groanbox.
Co-produced, recorded and mixed by Oscar Cainer (Outlandish Audio).
Mastered by Andy Young.
Guest appearances: Kenneth Terry (trumpet, track 10) and Yulene Velásquez (vocals, track 4)

Groanbox is:

Oscar Cainer
Paul Clifford
Cory Seznec
Michael Ward-Bergeman

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Groanbox New Orleans, Louisiana

At first glance a roots band steeped in the traditions of American music, they play with all the guts of rock and roll and all the soul of the wandering troubadour. But somewhere along the way, that troubadour turned from his path and set sail from the melting pot of New Orleans to begin a journey that would take their sound to new, unchartered territories with influences from around the world. ... more

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