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For The Warm Up b​/​w Pull The Plug

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by Jay Sherman-Godfrey

 

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The first in a series of digital singles fresh from the Able Mobile Recording Lab.

Will Rigby - drums
Chris Erikson - right side guitar (For The Warm Up)
Cheri Leone - backing vocal (For The Warm Up)
Laura Cantrell - backing vocal (Pull The Plug)
Jon Graboff - pedal steel guitar
Jeff Hermanson - Flugelhorn
Mike McGinnis - baritone saxophone
Brian Drye - trombone
Jay Sherman-Godfrey - vocals, guitars, keyboards, etc.

Recorded by JSG at Able Mobile HQ and Tim Hatfield at Cowboy Technical Services Recording Rig. Mastered by Paul Gold/Salt Mastering.

Design by Mark Paul.

An Able Mobile Recording Lab Production.

All songs by Jay Sherman-Godfrey
Copyright 2010 Kalamakeepsie Music, BMI (admin. by BUG).
Excerpt from "Don't Break The Heart" by Amy Rigby/Songs of Welk, BMI.

Veteran producer/songwriter/guitarist Jay Sherman-Godfrey released his solo debut EP "Twoscore" in 2006. He produced and played on two acclaimed CDs for Laura Cantrell, who joins him here on Pull The Plug, and has recorded and performed with They Might Be Giants, Tandy, Amy Rigby, Michael Shelley, Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, and Mojo Nixon, among many others. In the early 1980s, he co-founded the seminal NYC country-rock band World Famous Blue Jays, and with the band’s leader, Jeremy Tepper, helped establish and run Diesel Only Records. He returns to Diesel Only’s 7” single heritage with this new series of virtual 45s, each with custom label and sleeve artwork.

Since 1996, Able Mobile Recording Lab has been Sherman-Godfrey’s ad hoc studio, capturing human, wood, wire and tube powered performances in lofts, bedrooms, kitchens, gymnasiums, barns -- anywhere with a plug, like-minded musicians, and favorable ambiance. In 2008, Able Mobile found a semi-permanent home in Greenpoint Brooklyn, sharing space with Joe McGinty’s Carousel Vintage Keyboard Studio.
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Track Name: For The Warm Up
At once the lights fill up the stage
The drummer hesitates
But sticks soon click and we're off the races
Crowd in the dark stumble for their seats
The spotlight finds you suddenly
A few heads turn but I can't make out the faces

Backstage a roadie deals a hand
The headliner demands
Security escorts and intrepid fan
I open up my mouth to sing
But I can't hear a thing
Distracted by your footlight halo
You make a pretty good angel

At six the sound check came and went
At seven, too and eight again
It's doors, too late
"I'm sure you guys will sound great tonight!"
Changing clothes out in the van
Swapping swag with the local band
Who play for free
Just happy to be there

They've got the stopwatch out tonight
Kill the banter, keep it tight
So long, last song
Did I mention we got shirts for sale?
Crowd's gone backstage
We play the empty hall
It would've been a bust
But she came all the way from Cincy
To hear you sing that song
Got everyone to sing along

(Don't break the heart that needs you
There's nowhere you can go but down)

Pull out of T.O. in the snow
We left straight after the show
The Customs agent emptied out the van
We pull in late
No check again tonight
Two fans get in a fight
Up go the house lights
The DJ throws up his hands
Says, "Let's hear it for the warm up band!"
Track Name: Pull The Plug
It’s dying
Take it off the respirator
Call up the undertaker
Pull the plug
It’s no use
Trying to resuscitate it
It’s a miracle it made it
This far

This particular volatile mixture
Demands too perfect a temperature
You could only keep it cool so long
So long
So long

Pull the plug
Now’s the time to steel your resolve
Ask yourself what would it solve
To bring it back, go ahead
Pull the plug
I know that you’ll thank me later
Do yourself and everyone a favor
Pull the plug
Do it now

But you never knew when to quit, did you?
Always have to be the one to fix it
But there’s really nothing anyone can do
Except you
You can pull the plug