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Friends and Family

by Joan Kelsey's Silver Lining

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Ryan Wyrick
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Ryan Wyrick Joan and company have created something tremendously special and delightful with this album. Warm and inviting, Raquel and Connor create a whole world with their incredibly moving string playing for Joan's soothing vocals, compelling lyricism, and complimentary guitar work to exist in. I find myself oscillating through so many emotions while listening. I am truly enamored, and feel so lucky to surround myself with such music, and to think, I get to be with these songs for the rest of my life. <3
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vtjujubean heartwarming, mesmerizing, and just plain extraordinary!! love, love, love
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risabee Your music is simply lovely. The magic of your live performances is captured perfectly on this album. Your music is sincere, emotionally compelling, perfectly executed, and always surprising. Thank you!!
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1.
Animals 02:08
When I was a kid I could talk to anyone, even people who were dead. What do you care if I'm falling for animals? It's not like we were making love. Like a kid I'm blushing bright as an apple as I follow traces in the snow. There are others sharing my body, trembling like the water in the wind. My dad was a kid when his mother died, then he was a little man. My friends want to learn to fall on their knees again.
2.
Big Blue 02:51 video
There's a moment or two after the cannonball. In the generous pool the question confronts you: Will you sink like a bag of sand in the easy muffle of big blue? Unequivocal now, say it right out loud. If you see something wrong with this, spit it out. Will you still place the word in trembling counterpoint to the breath you drew? Share a chorus or two over the neighborhood. Nothing better to do after we've said it all. Will you sink like a bag of sand in the easy muffle of big blue?
3.
Mother's Day 02:58
I took a walk down to Hana's flat to talk about my latest panic attack. They had made a tent where I could hide but I broke down the moment I got inside. Can't stay home trying to relax, let's take the dog to the railroad tracks. Let's hit the road, I've been missing that. Teenage dream, living where it's at. Walking home I thought I saw her face. Just a stranger, I look the other way. Yeah, you know, I still miss Christine. I let it go, no one's what they seem. Nica's talking about a book she read. Jesse gives me a piece of homemade bread even though I missed rent again. It's not a family, but I think we're friends. They went out, I stayed in to pray and drink a bit, cause it was Mother's Day.
4.
Come Back In 05:17
5.
And Yet 01:50
6.
Wild Fire 03:44
We were out walking through corn and the forest, wrapped in many layers to keep our bodies warm. The dog, she was running through the field and the bushes, and all that we encountered we had never seen before. My heart's in California in some spiders floating orb, by the river with no water where the wild fires roam. My home's called Hudson Valley, where the water overflows and the deer run through the city heeding neither friend nor foe.
7.
Ghosts 02:42
Black ink, white teeth breaking like a cloud. I saw you singing right out loud. Her room, her mouth, only yours for now. You know we're out here counting down. Soft wings, sharp sounds, flocking all around: I've known you once or twice by now. Black ink, dark shroud, caught me in the crib. One day you'll show me what I did.
8.
For Morgan 04:08
What to think and what to say? It was only a flash in the pan. Drunk night driving past the fire, don't speak of it again. I'm sorry I was late to your birthday, you know I was caught in myself. If I was fucked up when you visited I'm sorry, I'll straighten it out. Well my wise and prudent brother, soft and distant friend, are you lonely, and you tired, are you caving in? I'm sorry I was late in responding to the letter you thoughtfully wrote. I'm glad that you made it to LA, I know that you'll figure it out. One to cover, one to keep, and one to throw away. In the garden, in your sleep, and through the mouth of the grave. I saw you contend with the pattern, you don't have to say it out loud. Your mother is lucky to have you, your father will figure it out.
9.
Mother Bird 03:37
Baby flew against the grain, crashed into the open sky. So you smash the window pane, mother bird don't die. You'd take an open flame, hold it to your open eye. We only share a name, you are not like me. I know you're only sleeping... I saw the opening through a hail of broken teeth. I heard the chorus sing, flocking to the breach, Who turns the engine shaft? Whose eyes are growing weak? Who drops the rigid jaw forcing you to speak? I know you're only sleeping... Biting through the novocaine, drop of blood upon my arm, lift it on my nail and then walk out of the yard. East to see the city sing, North to hold the past on high, South to catch my breath again, West until I die. I know I'm only sleeping...
10.
Chalk 02:58
Forgot what I wanted to say, I just wanted to talk. That's enough, if I had more courage I'd stop. If I had more courage I'd already be long gone. Leave myself empty and dumb as a cloud of chalk. Abraham, would you have gone though with it even if Isaac ran? Unflinching murder in faith to a stranger's plan. How could you know you'd stay clean in the eyes of Man? I don't know how to be my best, or be honest at all. I understand a song is a sandcastle covered in flowers, and I hold the kingdom of heaven within me, but eyes of the ones that I love crowd around me.

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released February 1, 2020

Joan Kelsey: vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass (tracks 2, 5)
Raquel Velho: cello, group vocals, bass (track 2)
Connor Armbruster: fiddle, group vocals
Rick Spataro: drums (tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9), synth, sprinkles, group vocals
Evan Marré: bass (tracks 3, 6, 8, 9), drums (track 3), group vocals
Carolyn Shapiro: banjo, group vocals
Sienna Thiem: group vocals (track 5)

Produced and engineered by Rick Spataro
Mastered by Mike Ditrio
big thanks to Griffbot Records for the tapes

album art by Joan Kelsey's Silver Lining, Sienna Thiem, Elanor Armbruster, Kamryn Wolf, Raurri Jennings, Dan Ovland, Melissa Bromley, Carolyn Shapiro, Alex Simon, Adam Elabd, Yiyi Mendoza, Cece, Em, Hana van der Kolk, Guy Schaffer, Jack Levigne, Zan Strumfeld, Britta Moberg, and Chloe Garden.

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