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They Don't Make 'em Anymore

by Alf Silver

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You Can Run 03:14
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Nobody Ever 02:42
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The Forks 03:55
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I Gotta 02:25
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Take-Outs 01:19

about

So you finally find the perfect all-weather jacket, the perfect word-processing program, the maybe-eccentric pair of shoes that are just perfect for your gait... Time munches on, and when you inevitably head on down to your friendly supply store to get the lovingly worn-out replaced/reparted, what you get told is: "They don't make 'em anymore." We fumble along.

I wasn't planning to make this a solo album, scarifyingly buck nekkid pretty much live-off -the-floor, letting the songs stand on their own (or not). But when we started to lay down what were supposed to be bed tracks, and the miracles of modern recording and inventive engineering brought out all the hums and overtones of the big fat old Guild, harmonizing and bolstering my voice (I'll take all the bolstering I can get), it seemed a pity to bury that under xylophones and mandolins. Oddly, making it stripped-down made some frequencies more loaded-up than normal -- if you diddle the volume the sound will get wider before it gets louder. Though some of it will get mashed away if you use a lossy, remixing format like the dreaded MP3 -- but hey, it's your money, or your metabytes or whatever the jeezly proper technical term is. Or maybe my ears got spoiled by too many nights on basement floors with my head between the speakers.

Happily, Bandcamp gives you the choice to download MP3ish or a lossless reproducer like WAV. Happier still that Bandcamp's a webworld version of an oldtime record store with listening booths, so you can take songs out for a spin before you decide to buy (or not). Happy spinning.

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released March 25, 2015

Alf Silver -- Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Produced by Terry Pulliam and Alf Silver
All Songs by Alf Silver

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Alf Silver Ardoise, Nova Scotia

Back in the days of vinyl and roses I made my so-called living making music, until I learned I don't have the stomach for the road (literally) and that people would pay me to sit home and write novels and scripts. Still, every now and then a song would come calling and I promised them I would someday make another record while my fingers and throat were still up to it. Just made it. ... more

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