Original Track "The Leaving Song" is sung with an Australian accent and celebrates Australian folk music. It IS something we all know, without having to be told – when it’s time to go you’d better go. The Album, "Travelogue" - 13 songs, captured by an awesome collection of vintage microphones. The songs are new, original but sound as though they’ve always existed, somewhere on a mountaintop……
Slim Dime are Jen Land – vocals & tenor guitar & Chris Taylor – vocals & guitar & banjo.
lyrics
The Leaving Song
Sally’s packing up the bar and callin’ out, “last drinks”,
washing all the dregs of beer and ciggies down the sink.
It’s the tail end of a long night, the kind that just won’t end.
The same old crowd of punters driving her right round the bend.
Sam’s still sitting at the bar, been sitting there all week.
His Mrs upped and left him after 13 angry years.
He shoulda seen it coming: he couldn’t be surprised.
Still he can’t forget the wounded look deep in her eyes
It’s something we all know
without having to be told
when it’s time to go
you’d better go
Em and John have been together now for 20 years,
stuck it out together through the heartbreak, laughs and tears.
Now she can’t remember, who it was she loved,
that happy young man that she married - vanished into dust.
They talk in different languages, lead their separate lives,
quiet daggers stabbed in backs using just their eyes.
It’s something we all know
without having to be told
when it’s time to go
you’d better go
Judy’s gonna stick it out, doesn’t wanna quit.
She’s gonna keep on hanging on to get her little bit.
She knows she’s bloody earned it, it’s her bloody due,
and if she doesn’t get it, well, maybe she’ll sue!
It’s something we all know
without having to be told
when it’s time to go
you’d better go
credits
from Travelogue,
released April 26, 2016
Recorded live by Matt Walker & Rowan Matthews at their Stovepipe Studios, Produced by Matt Walker & mastered at Deluxe Mastering by Adam Dempsey.
“this is music for the literate Hillbilly” – CD Baby
Slim Dime are an acoustic duo
featuring old-time mountain sounds, seamless harmonies and some mighty-fine pickin’.
They make music that sounds as though it’s always existed somewhere on a mountaintop.
Their material is both original songs and traditional songs made new. It’s music that makes you lean in and listen....more
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