Let Those Axes Fall (Track 5 of forthcoming new album)

by Matt Miller, Baritone Guitarist & Singer/Songwriter

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Recorded at two-headed coyote studios, Gettysburg, PA, May 18th and 20th, 2018.

One of two songs on the new album (The Age of Miisinformation) not written in summer of 2020. Though I'd done this recording in 2018, I'd written it summer of 2007.

I roped my friend Paul into playing organ on this; after noodled around a bit, I went to work editing, adjusting, trimming, and moving segments to produce what you hear here. It doesn't come in until a ways into the track; and it instantly sets an entirely new, psychedelic-science-fiction-like tone, to me. I love it.

By contrast, the guitar, flute, and vocal were all first take - something I'm mostly in the habit of doing with recording. I think the guiro (in this case a double guiro, that also serves as a double wood-block - totally cool little instrument) took more than one take, as I recall.

I'm rather proud of the flute work on this tune; really got into the flow myself, and there it was. The vocal and guitar have no reverb on them; which at first was just the expedience of doing a quick mixdown to share with friends, and became an indispensable feature of the track.

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Down the street the light's still on at night
But no one lives there any more
They say the bark's worse than the bite
But what's all tha barking for?

So what's with you? What do you say?
Cause I haven't heard the word
I got lost just yesterday
That's what happens when you stray from the herd

Oh, it's more than you can bear
Don't believe everyything you heard somewhere

That old man still goes to work all day long
Wakes up in time to shave
Says he still wants something before it's all gone
Well who sets out to die a slave?

And I left the laundry on the floor
It'll just get dirty anyway
And I can't take no more
Something's always got to change, got to change

Sometimes it's more than you can bear
Don't believe everything you read somewhere

And all at once, it finally dawned on me
You got to act like you don't know
They'll assume that you're too blind to see
And then they'll let it go

And I don't feel bad about it
Not at all
Like the other day when she gave me a call
Cause sometimes I guess you got to let those,
Let those axes fall
Let those axes fall

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released May 21, 2018
Matt Miller: baritone guitar, flute, guiro-block, vocals
Paul Mangan: organ/synth

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Matt Miller, Baritone Guitarist & Singer/Songwriter Flagstaff, Arizona

Baritone guitar is tuned between a guitar and a bass (B E A D F# B). Extremely versatile, full, and very funky. Given its excellent qualities, it is surprisingly uncommon.

I "live loop", which lets me improvise on alto sax, flute, and guitar. Strong jazz and funk influences, but truly a wide variety. Even shit-kicking country at times. The Muse, she speaks; I hear. ... more

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