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Glass Mountain Rodeo

by Glass Mountain Rodeo

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    Singer/songwriter Cooper Kenward brings the intimacy of country ballads into a folk rock setting on Glass Mountain Rodeo’s eponymous debut. In his stories about middle-class heroes, love, loss and nostalgia persist, but from the perspective of a guitarist with an ear for edgy harmonies and subtle production. Each of the ten tracks have a solid foundation of honest telecaster riffs that alternate with tremulous vocals. And the soulful drumming of Jason Slota and modern production stylings of Robert Shelton give the album a wide range of feeling and a live-sounding glow.

    At times, the orchestration behind the country soul foundation comes into the foreground. You’ll hear trombone, pedal steel, organ, bass clarinet and the occasional synth. Most tunes are made for dancing, others are poignant and misty. But through Kenward’s guitar playing (like a young Neil Young's) and his vocal fill-ins (like an old Bob Dylan's) the vision of Glass Mountain Rodeo is clear — bring together a diverse group of music appreciators and give them music to drink to.

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1.
Sue 03:32
Sue was in a barroom on the border of Tennessee dancing real slow to pedal steel and I nearly fell to my knees I ordered her a beer but she said no i'll take a whiskey instead we played pool into the evening as the neon filled my head We got married in a church god knows where ordered a ring from a vending machine and honeymooned at the fair woke up in a motel room frayed and burned there’s many things I thought I knew but there’s still more to be learned I don’t mind living the way I do as long as I get a little loving I’ll give a little loving to you after some years we had a boy and we took him from state to state Showing him all the things that one can love and hate times got tough but we made it right we would wait to buy gas every town has a secret you just have to ask I don’t mind living the way we do as long as we get a little loving lord give a little loving a whole lot of loving to you Sue left me and the boy in a town called Fredericksburg leaving a note and an empty glass that said not to go looking for her we settled down and took it slow I got a job in town playing pedal steel with the boys and creating that lonesome sound I don’t mind living the way I do as long as I get a little loving lord I start thinking about sue
2.
walking down the street The cold creeping through your feet the wind pushes back your hair but you don’t care at all because we’re dancing down broadway underneath the lights feeling like we own the night eating pizza in the back of a bar trying to name all the stars the people come and go finding shelter from the snow 3 drinks in I start singing songs by tom jones everyone joins in on the chorus nights like these are strange and wild nights like these are strange and wild hearts beating out of your chest but you don’t ever want to rest so you have another cigarette just to feel it on your breath as the sun rises above the buildings on your walked home you fell like you finally knew someone you lie awake in bed trying to sleep but you can’t you start laughing at something I said that you thought was dumb finally you start sleeping and your dreams they don’t make sense and they never do. nights like these are strange and wild nights like these are strange and wild
3.
Sitting in a boat on a river waiting for the fish to bite watching the day drift away I feel alright Sun is peaking through the trees I’m taking in the morning breeze I might not catch anything today and that would be ok taking my time and letting it all drift away on this warm slow winters day birds are making crazy patterns in the orange colored sky It’s so nice to sit back and watch them pass by I wish that I am the river always rolling on everything goes through me all my troubles would be gone aking my time and letting it all drift away on this warm slow winters day Sitting in a boat on a river waiting for the fish to bite watching the day drift away I feel alright yeah I feel alright I’m alone here Just sitting alone here I’m alone here for the rest of my life I’m alone here Just sitting alone here I’m alone here on the river by myself
4.
Modest graffiti on the stucco bathroom wall it looks like big dick jones still owns this stall. Hanging with the midday drinkers, the sit alone thinkers trying out best not to do much at all. Scrolling through my phone for answers worried that it’s giving me cancer sometimes I feel like a dancer with no clothes at all no clothes on at all it’s 2am and I’m still stuffing my face kid’s from prom are filling up this place they’ve got burgers, shakes, and sparkle blue french fries. and for some strange reason in this fast food joint I felt alive. the moon is hanging low the city’s casting its glow If I knew what I wanted I would know where to go there’s nowhere to go This coffee is really sorting out my mind hash browns, eggs, and lots of un-accounted time. wondering about 5 years from now and where i will be then I get distracted and think about my shows on tv wish that I had a plan but i’ll keep doing the best that I can everything I ever wanted in the palm of my
5.
Burritos 02:16
6.
Coming Home 02:43
When you wake up in the city feeling tired from the grind and the money in your pocket isn’t calming your mind you’ve got to come out to the country to finally unwind. I’m coming home I’m coming home When you’re drinking to feel at ease, eating heavy, and felling stressed and the zombies that surround you are also hollow in the chest, you’ve got to come out to the country, where the air is the best. I’m coming home I’m coming home what is a home but a place to call you’re own a place to be alone a place where seeds are sown I’m coming home I’m coming home
7.
every little thing that I have done up until now feels dumb if I could I know I would change everything If I could I want to hold you in my arms and say It will be ok at least for today I won’t be the man who builds a deck just to prove that he’s a man and that he can I would rather pull the weeds and plant the seeds that keep growing on and on.. I want to hold you in my arms and say It will be ok at least for today I don’t want to die here until I know what for I can only wait around in this state for so long maybe some day in this universe there will be a piece of me floating free until then I will hold you in my arms and say it will be ok. at least for today at least for
8.
you look just like a swinging manzanita and i feel like a tired old oak you move through a room like a pickup truck with two of it’s wheels broke I can hear you sining from down the street with no rhyme, rhythm or beat and with that sweet song I’ll still come running through glass with no shoes on my feet because someone like you is hard to hold on to if you come my way I don’t know what to do I don’t know what to do You’ll wake up at 4am just to bake a pie mess it up and top it with cream if you are a hurricane then i’m the sky and whatever the hell that means the only way to hold you still is to put you into a photograph if my life is a joke and it probably is you’re gonna have the last laugh because someone like you is hard to hold on to if you come why I don’t know what to do I don’t know what to do If we don’t kill each other I don’t know what will were more dangerous than tigers, laser beams, atom bombs and oil spills. quaaludes, jujubes and freewill. because someone like you is hard to hold on to if you come why I don’t know what to do I don’t know what to do
9.
Turning Blue 04:03
10.

credits

released May 9, 2016

All songs written by Cooper Kenward
Burrito Song written by Nic Henry & Cooper Kenward

Mixed & Engineered by Robert Shelton
Arrangements by Robert Shelton and Carly Bond
Guitar & Vocals - Cooper Kenward
Moog, Piano, Organ, and Wurlitzer - Robert Shelton
Electric Bass & Double Bass - James Riotto
Vocals & Bass Clarinet - Carly Bond
Drums, Percussion, & Glockenspiel - Jason Slota
Additional Guitar - Raj
Trombone - Adam Theis
Pedal Steel - David Philips

Cover Art by Geoff Ellsworth

Recorded at Tiny Telephone Studios, San Francisco, CA

Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice 

Thank you Mom, Dad, Molly, Natalie, Nature’s Vegas, Jonathan Shifflett, and John Vanderslice.

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