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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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Hills Snyder

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no more will you find me walking past your door
I wanted you then but I don’t want you no more
you taught me how
to live with an invalid

every night at dinner time we set down our plates
one for you and me and for the one who waits
you taught me how
to live with an invalid

picking flowers on Monday and Tuesday too
flowers on Wednesday to the weekend through
we’re always picking flowers for you know who
you taught me how
to live with an invalid

out in the garden you were digging some rows
you were planting more flowers I think maybe a rose
you were working all alone with a watering hose
you didn’t see it standing there in the shadows
you taught me how
to live with an invalid

I saw you in the tool shed your hand in the box
you was wearing a bathrobe and maybe some socks
you pulled out some pliers like from out of a mouth
you looked to the north and you looked to the south
and you looked to the east and you looked to the west
and then you looked in the mirror where you look best
you taught me how
to live with an invalid

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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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