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Rusty Trucks and Daisies (Maxi single)

by Martin Ruby

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She never slept in the Chelsea Hotel but she bought an old guitar just ‘round the corner How did she get to rusty trucks and daises? We all got sick in the winter and she died in the spring So we learn to sleep through the lonely I’ll find a way to get back to Coney How do I get to rusty trucks and daises? Cold cups of coffee oh it’s a cold, cold cup of coffee Yeah, they say they got horses way up there babe, Yeah they say they got horses. We never knew how she learned that guitar hollow and red played it ‘til she bled ski hats and parkas on the 4th of July Hilly’s old dog that howled and whined As we tumbled and tangoed on the tiniest stage those spitball kids to Lorraine’s surprise They had no tattoos no magic powder, no pixie dust clean scrubbed and smiling like a Cheshire Cat’s clowder
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She never slept in the Chelsea Hotel but she bought an old guitar just ‘round the corner How did she get to rusty trucks and daises? We all got sick in the winter and she died in the spring So we learn to sleep through the lonely I’ll find a way to get back to Coney How do I get to rusty trucks and daises? Cold cups of coffee oh it’s a cold, cold cup of coffee Yeah, they say they got horses way up there babe, Yeah they say they got horses. We never knew how she learned that guitar hollow and red played it ‘til she bled ski hats and parkas on the 4th of July Hilly’s old dog that howled and whined As we tumbled and tangoed on the tiniest stage those spitball kids to Lorraine’s surprise They had no tattoos no magic powder, no pixie dust clean scrubbed and smiling like a Cheshire Cat’s clowder
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She never slept in the Chelsea Hotel but she bought an old guitar just ‘round the corner How did she get to rusty trucks and daises? We all got sick in the winter and she died in the spring So we learn to sleep through the lonely I’ll find a way to get back to Coney How do I get to rusty trucks and daises? Cold cups of coffee oh it’s a cold, cold cup of coffee Yeah, they say they got horses way up there babe, Yeah they say they got horses. We never knew how she learned that guitar hollow and red played it ‘til she bled ski hats and parkas on the 4th of July Hilly’s old dog that howled and whined As we tumbled and tangoed on the tiniest stage those spitball kids to Lorraine’s surprise They had no tattoos no magic powder, no pixie dust clean scrubbed and smiling like a Cheshire Cat’s clowder

about

Every song is its own little world - on this one, some words came first, just a handful of them “She never slept in the Chelsea Hotel/But she bought an old guitar just ‘round the corner.” They sat on the page for a while, not sure where to go next - and then, out of nowhere my old bandmate Molly Fitch died from Covid and I understood, in that messy, broken moment that this song was about her. She lived a complex, mysterious life and we had just gotten back in touch after years of silence, cracking wise about our adventures playing at CBGBs in the 90s. I decided to keep plenty of her secrets intact, and tried to paint an honest picture of where she ended up, and what it was like to wake up in a world without her.

Thanks for listening - Marco

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released June 17, 2022

Marco North: vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, bass, harmonica, tack piano, accordion, mellotron, drums, and various Stradivarius string samples.

On the midnight version, Bryan Daste on pedal steel

Written, produced, mixed and engineered by Marco North
Official single and Midnight version mastered by Oz Fritz
©+℗ 2022 Bittersweet Hum Music (BMI)

Design by Bittersweet Content
Photos by Irakli Katsadze

Recorded in a living room in Moscow, Russia with SOYUZ microphones.

THANKS TO:

Oz Fritz, Bryan Daste, Nataliya Usherzon, Eve North, Vera North, Kevin Salem, Eric B. and Chris W. from The Mixorcist, Irakli, Therese, JM, Evie, Jon, Jamie, Daniel, David, Marlon, Polly, Ryan and George.

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Martin Ruby is a Roots/Americana band led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Marco North.

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