Tuesday, 25 July 2017

LOGIC AND LIES-Album Notes

And away we go.....


Maier Records presents in association with  The Townedgers Music Emporium

LOGIC AND LIES By The Townedgers.

Side 1

Logic And Lies (Part 1) 3:24
Let It Go  3:30
The Promise Flower  2:03
Mystery Girl  2:40
Highway 94 Revisited  2:58
Lately  3:29
Love's Guessing Game  2:45

Side 2

Drawn In The Dark  3:50
The Way Love Used To Be  2:14
Distractions  3:27
It's Just A Notion  3:38
All We Are  3:35
I'm On The Right Road Now  2:41
Logic And Lies (Part 2)  2:40


Songs written and credited to by R.Smith/G.Redding except
3,10,13 R.Smith
5 R.Smith/J.Orbit
6, 9 R.Smith/M. Strobie
Lyrical content by R.Smith
Copyright Control
Songs (C) 2017 Townedgers Music Emporium

Produced By Rodney Smith And Terry Bainbridge

Album recorded at The Junkyard somewhere between Springville and Anamosa IA
From April 19 through July 12, 2017

Recorded by Martin Daniels, Terry Bainbridge, Rodney Smith
Richard Dennanbaugh helped on Lately and All We Are
Mixed by Martin Daniels and Rodney Smith at The Hoarder House Of Hits

A&R: Diggy Kat

For the most part The Townedgers continue to be:
Rodney Smith:  Lead Vocals, guitar and drums
Geoff Redding: Assorted guitars, mandolin, 12 String Guitar, Vocals
Martin Daniels:  Bass player and vocals
Mel Strobie: Bass Player when M.D. had to do production work for other bands.

The Promise Flower was inspired and is dedicated to Julie Gordon.

Thank you's
To the ones that been there at the beginning. My parents, my brother Rick who has to put up with the noise and such. Russ Swearingen who's been around for close to 5 decades now and thought enough of me to be the drummer in what would be known as Paraphernalia/Open Highway/Tyrus/I/O etc etc, Diggy Kat, who supported the music by playing it on Lucky Star Radio and has been our biggest fan since 2002.  Donna Will, a woman that likes sports and the Grateful Dead.  Sonya Madden who provided the shoulder to cry on when things were not going so well for me this past spring and hubby Jason (Booyah Bitch!) Madden as well.  Nicole Passmore figures into this as well, a shame that she never heard me play live when she lived down here.  The difference now is that I do not watch TV anymore and practice playing guitar and drums on a regular basis.

The present:  Rod Albaugh somehow got me to pick up his guitar and sing a few awkward originals about two years ago after work and this really got me started back into playing live again.  Terry McDowell for letting me practice on his drums for a couple songs at Rumors on Sunday Afternoons, Wooden Nickel Lottery and the guitar wizardry of Rich Toomsen as well as his lovely wife Jess, Delayne Stallman for talking drums and otherwise, Rick Gallo too.  Four Day Creep, especially Rick Clay, who I love to jam Dreams I Never See with him singing it.  And Troy Mitchell, excellent drummer. Jon Wilson, smoothest drummer out there.  Brook Hoover who might rival me with the most eccentric choice of songs out there. Cathy Hart and Lorie Parker, as well as the aforementioned Julie Gordon who somehow coaxed me upstage to play guitar one cold December Evening which jump started my acoustic guitar solo career, before then I played live to an audience of one.  Now it varies from 10 to 20 on a given night. Who else?  Steve Black Wolf, Tommy Bruner, Kenneth John Webb, Mark Awad, Make Fredericks, Jay Devore, Tony Nickles, David Lam, Kevin Sinmacher, Kathy and Bart Carfizzi, Tiffany Z (I cannot spell her last name but she's the drummer for 50 Shades Of Rock and she does rock), Tom (T Bone) Giblin who somehow got me to play a lot more quieter on drums on blues jams when I show up, Tony Brown, Dan Johnson, Tim Duffy, T Ray Robertson, Dave Bonham, Cecie and Peter Stark, Ryan Matthew Paul, Louis Koehler, Donna Jo Einser,  Buddy Archbremmer, even Tim Wiley.  And to Checker's Tavern and Rumors for supporting my efforts to play music.

Dennis Lancaster and DeWayne Schminkey and Randy Hartwig, the other guys in Paraphernalia Tyrus that made that band a legend in our own minds.  Mike Serbousek, who bashes the drums just as hard if not harder than myself but like Troy Mitchell will let me sit in on a few numbers when his band is in town.  And when The Townedgers play live here, my drummer of choice.

Finally, Mark Randolph and Belinda James, two people with genuine hearts of gold.  I befriended Belinda a year or so ago and we jammed out to Fever,  Mark would later show up and I'd back them up on occasion.  from time to time we play in a new band collective, for over 50 year old somethings like us, they can rock out to just about anything.  I have heard some fine vocalists out there but the way Belinda can sing a blues song like Stormy Monday you have to hear to believe it.  Without their encouragement and support I would have retreated back into the basement, never to be heard from again.  I'm sure I'm missing a few but if I did you can put your name here ________________

If you read this far, this is where I say that Logic And Lies is my best album, but then again I said that for Fitting Finales and Forthcoming Trains and so on.  We have to believe that anything new we do is our best album, if it's not why even try?  And there's a chance any album could be the last album so at least we'll make the valiant effort to put out a great album, even though corporate radio will not play it, nor getting any sort of record deal.  My object is to document the events that led to the recording of the new album.   And here it is, warts and all, a blood stained love letter before your very eyes and ears.  At least this record ends on a high note.  To which we can go to bed and sleep well knowing that we did our best.  And hope that it will stand the test of time 10 or 20 years from now.  If I planned it right, this recording will outlast me.  Like the rest of the albums.

Dedicated to the memory of Jack Orbit.

Maier Records catalog number  MRK-25563
(C) 2017 Townedgers Music Emporium, under license to Maier Records.







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