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Rope With A String

from Tiny Chair by Wolverton

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    The first of two releases recorded live with Joe Reyes at his home studio, December 2010 - March 2011. The 23 songs of this album and Shores of Erewhon were recorded spontaneously in groups of two or three with Hills on guitar and vocals and Joe on guitars. Some tracks have added instruments and many were single takes.

    "Wolverton’s got some potent, quiet music, and the recordings make you feel like they’re right there, reckoning the quirks of our heritage right alongside them. What it leaves out is as important as what it throws together but is gloriously free of twang or self-conscious neo-traditionalism. Contemplative, affectionate, warm and gently flawed, it’s roots music sans self-importance, and Hills Snyder’s songwriting is witty and doleful and full of unexpected touches; as in 'Guts,' a small song that sounds like deeply personal footnotes to the human epic. You know how in 'Tangled Up In Blue,' you can’t tell whether the time frame is 19th century or Now? Kinda like that."
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Rope With String

she took all the art my heart had to give
she knew every lie my life had to live
she was the eve in my everything
she’s got me tied to a rope with a string

she’s inside every word that I say
she’s the deal that I’d like to delay
she is the sin I’d like to sing
she’s got me tied to a rope with a string

had I known I was the bone in bonehead
I might have also known she was a dog
she was the goddess
that blessed these merry gentlemen
and though she’s gone to stay
leave nothing to dismay
and May was not her name
but don’t dis her just the same

our love was true
it was rich
it was free
it was on us
but now
its ennui
she is the grab in my gravity
she is the ache in my birthday cake
she took the kin from my king
she’s got me tied to a rope with a string

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from Tiny Chair, released August 31, 2012

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Wolverton Magdalena, New Mexico

The core collective is Kate Terrell, Caralyn Snyder, Hills Snyder, our key collaborator, Joe Reyes, and others who come and go, sit in or otherwise join the Wolverton musical family.

Lyrically, Wolverton is unanchored, very visual and moving equally through memory, story, and association, with dark streaks of tradition. ... more

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