Re: SoJ/I, Week Four (one day late): "The Walking"

I've been to Twillingate!
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Glenn Nelson in Santa Cruz
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:

>    mango
> ?
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> This was the last record of Jane's I bought on vinyl.  I came across it
> by chance in a small store, after many years away from her.  What a find.
>
>
> These notes written by Jane about The Walking were posted to siblings
> back in 1997, by [email protected]; she and I are now married :).
>
>                    Jane's Notes:
>                    this record was originally going to be called
>                    "Twillingate". I see it as an autumn album, the
>                    blue of the cover too cool. really, it should have
>                    been dark reds, burnt oranges, golds. more like
>                    "when i was a boy". i recorded wrote the songs
>                    for this album in the basement where i recorded
>                    my first record. (i also wrote "the speckless sky"
>                    there). strings all around the little room with
>                    pages and pages of lyrics and music drawings.
>                    when i think of certain songs i see in minute
>                    detail the white-washed bricks on the wall so
>                    intently must i have been peering at it while i
>                    heard music in my head. "the white tent the raft"
>                    took up a whole wall. it was going to be around
>                    35 minutes, i figured, each clearing expanding
>                    into a new song until you almost forgot where it
>                    came from and then side-stepping back at the
>                    last minute. there was a lot of difficulty at this
>                    time and I had bad headaches. i was grateful
>                    for the songs to lose myself into.
>
>                    Twillingate was a small town in Newfoundland
>                    that was the setting for songs like Lena and Red
>                    High Heels. "first you go up the hill and then
>                    you...". chipping red nail polish and new found
>                    love and goodbyes. My sister told me a funny
>                    story about being in an elevator and wearing an
>                    unusual hat. It became The Lobby. I couldn't
>                    remember her telling me. People have to be
>                    careful what they say to me. My left brain
>                    doesn't always know what my right brain is
>                    doing. The Bird In the Gravel - "I don't mind
>                    when it's over, I don't mind when it's all done,
>                    it's just the moments in between, just before it's
>                    gone". The crux of it.