Hi friends-
Sending out a song that means a great deal to me but has not yet found its final form. I’d written it originally on banjo and then recorded it with full band for 2016’s A Man Alive, but it didn’t quite sonically fit on that album. I think I’ll be re-arranging and re-recording this one. There are things about it that bother me— signs and consequences of rushing back then to finish writing and get it recorded. A couple elements that don’t bother me, and instead elicit great appreciation and sweet nostalgia, are the lead guitar and keys parts from Charlie Glenn. Charlie played all over We The Common, A Man Alive and Temple. Charlie has such a gift for coming up with parts that help bolster and propel the vocal melody and flesh out the song. I remember at that time I’d cited The Kinks’ “Strangers” as a production reference for this track.
Tread/Flee is about my dad and me, and I’ve dug it up because I can feel new material circling back to our murky, relentlessly unresolved r…
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