Little Wood Guitar

from The Wilderness Years by Terry Lee Hale

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LITTLE WOOD GUITAR cassette -
Produced by Chris Eckman and TLH
Recorded at Rubato Studios, January 1989
Engineered by Johnny Rubato
Mixed at Audio Design and Egg Studio by Ed Brooks c1989

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Little Wood Guitar

Don't play so loud they said, learn a little control
What do you think that you're trying to do
This is folk music, not rock and roll
Yes but I'm working
Stand up there with a wood guitar
Making too much noise is breaking rules
Why don't you play us an intricate folk song
What about tradition and not so much new
Well I try, try and try
Yes I'm working

Turn it up so we can feel it
Where's the drummer and the bass playing hard?
We know what's rock and roll
And it ain't you with that wood guitar
Yes but I'm working
There's such a thing as a rock and roll tradition
There's such a thing but it you take it too far
What you need is a lot more power
It ain't enough with just one guitar
Well I try, try and I try
But I'm working

Everybody speaks with such conviction
They know the secret, just what the world needs
Ain't it funny how they point their fingers
I listen but do not heed
Yes and I'm working
When I play I get some satisfaction
And when I play yes I work at it hard
But what I am is how you hear it
But it's just me and a wood guitar
Well I try, try, yeah I try
And I'm working

(C G C G C E)

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from The Wilderness Years, released January 1, 1995

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Terry Lee Hale Marseille, France

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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