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This tune was recorded on Patriots Day on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing the first year I moved into a big creepy house in Easthampton, MA. I was injured at work that day and had to get stitches.. so I was on some pain medication when I set down behind the Aquarius Entertainer organ and recorded this super bummer piece of music. I think my brain was attempting to come to terms with what the fuck could have been the bombers point in exploding a bomb at the marathon. I've never been to the Boston marathon.. but when I was living in Greenpoint the New York marathon was always a super fun day. I'd always bring my baby down to the corner to cheer the runners as they came by… there were bands playing on the corner. It just seemed like a bunch of people doing something really cool and fun, completely devoid of any form of politics. Just a bunch of humans pushing themselves extra hard to do something good for themselves while a bunch of other humans cheered them on. I fucking hated the guts of whoever blew the bombs up in Boston (it wasn't out yet who did it). I don't know why I sang the song from their point of view… but I guess that's art.

I don't know if its the drugs I was on or what… but my voice has sort of a wavering Maryanne Faithful quality that I dig.

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from Spectre Folk, Transmissions from a Broken Brain, released March 27, 2015

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Arbitrary Signs Pelham, Massachusetts


Arbitrary Signs is the vanity record label of Pete Nolan of the Magik Markers. Artists: Magik Markers, Spectre Folk, Devin, Gary, and Ross, MV&EE. For links to other Magik Markers see Drag City's Bandcamp. For more Spectre Folk go to the Vampire Blues Bandcamp page. ... more

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