another month, another new release from your favorite underachievers. this one’s a song called ‘xxx’ that i wrote a few years ago. we’ve always loved it but it never seemed to fit on any of our records so we just kept holding it for our inevitable country record that never materialized. long before they were shovels & rope, cary ann hearst and michael trent were just two of our uber-talented friends playing in their own bands and making great art. one rainy sunday morning they came over to my apartment (now the site of hello telescope) to record this vocal. if memory serves cary ann had had a long night and was a little hoarse and dare-i-say-it hungover. but she sang one of the most heartbreaking, intimate vocal takes i think i’ve ever heard. michael jumped in on the ‘ooooh’s at the end too. it was a cool moment and a reminder of how awesome it is to live in charleston with so many talented and inspiring people. anyway cut to 2012, we basically gutted the whole song except for those ooohs and cary ann’s vocal and started over. if you like it i’m going to write a series of songs with similarly controversial titles. potential candidates: ’full frontal’, ‘soft-core’, and, of course, ‘logjammin’ (featuring former autobahn singer karl hungus).
thanks for listening–
mef
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Bought it! By the way, no need to release albums. Just keep releasing songs. It’s always such a nice treat to find a new blog, new song, and band updates. Thanks!
I love your songs – you can count on my support! Hope you guys come back to Phoenix, AZ soon!
[...] “XXX” is the second single released by Slow Runner in a series of monthly singles that never found a home on an album. [...]
Awesome, clever (as always), enjoyable song! Additionally, it’s fun to set off the office IT klaxon horns by going to sites with ‘XXX’ in the address. Thanks for the updates – we definitely missed you guys out here on the interwebs. Congratulations on fatherhood as well – it sounds like you have your hands full!
I’m not that much of a online reader to be honest but your sites really nice, keep it up!
I’ll go ahead and bookmark your site to come back down the road. Cheers