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The Gristle and Bone Affair

Produced by Chris Eckman

TLH -vocals, guitars, harmonica
Žiga Golob - contra bass (1,2,3,5,6)
Catherine Graindorge –violins (1)
Jon Hyde – pedal steel (2)
Chris Cacavas – keyboards (6,7)
Claire Tucker – vocals (2,5)
 
Mixed by Matt Emerson Brown @ Space Ranch Studios, Seattle
Mastered by Levi Seitz @ Black Belt Mastering, Seattle
Recorded @ Denger Studio, Marseille 
Engineer  – Gerald Kuentz
Assistant – Mathew Lavenu
“All Fall Down” Recorded @ Studio Tchaman, Roquevaire
Engineer – Christophe Khatchik Hovikian
Assistant – Massimo Bologna
Additional recording by the participating musicians.
 
Cover artwork: “Heat” by Laura Hamje
TLH photo: Robert Hale
Cover design: Håvard Winther Gjelseth

Side A
Oh Life
Fish
Alive Inside
Doesn’t Matter Anymore

Side B
Gone
Curve Away
Time is a River
All Fall Down

lyrics

Curve Away

You don’t know what you will find here
Even crossed graves remain unnamed
Forget the past and her calling
Let them rest now unclaimed
Leveled sky close to falling
Winter rolls up fast here
Wonders why you came
Free of nothing road or river
And truth here you just don’t change

There is the comfort of knowing blind, stupid luck
Where you pencil in futures
And never have to give a fuck
I too wished it could be that way
An idea not unattractive
But that choice never mine to make
Or could ever even happen

And it’s not what I wanted
So, I curved away

It’s a generational slowdown
A twisting of the knot
Not even close to a wonderful
That happy chance forgot
A skeletal dance of clicking bones
Hot we are surely not
The truth and the matter with as always
The missing beat and plot

It’s not what we wanted
So, we curved away

Now, this road is hard on dreamers
With cover hard to find
Too many fall away, too far behind
But there’s the rub and hard to align
Answers to hold and know how to survive
Still, nothing lasts forever
And what’s lived is never lost
But surely with this fitting
We will learn about the cost

It’s not what we wanted
So, we curve away
Try to curve away
Need to curve away

E E B E B E capo 1

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from The Gristle & Bone Affair, released September 2, 2022
TLH - vocals, guitar
Chris Cacavas - keyboards

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Currently a resident in Marseille, Hale has been releasing albums for more than three decades. Hale’s work is stubborn and transcendent of genres and deeply evocative in a way that only a true original can be.

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