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    Snake Canyon 3:32
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    Dem Bones 3:49
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    Cold November 3:20
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    Little Fruit Fly 2:58
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    Long Black Veil 3:27
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    Hoppers Ate The Garden 2:22
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    The Ballad of Sally and Danny 3:22
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    Sittin at the Bar on a Monday 5:51
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    Summers Come and Gone 3:40
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    Hotdogs and Chardonnay 4:02
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Liner Notes:
1. Snake Canyon: Dan Harris - Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin. Brad Morse - Bass. 
One night I was having a beer with a friend. He told me about a hike he had taken at a place called Snake Canyon. It was a compelling tale, one that stuck in my head on the drive home. Later that night I wrote this song as a nearly word for word re-telling of his adventure.

2. Dem Bones: Dan Harris - Vocals, Guitar. MD Friedman - Harmonica. 
I wrote this song after reading an article from NPR about the Pearl River flooding and washing out an old slave cemetery in the town of Harrisonville. The bones from some of those resting there simply washed out of the river bank and floated down the river, unclaimed and lost to time.

3. Cold November: Dan Harris - Vocals, Guitar, Banjo. Enion Pelta-Tiller - Fiddle. Pamela Machala - Keys. Brad Morse - Bass.
 I wrote this song during a period of mourning when my dog Murphy went off to the great pheasant fields in the sky. I loved that dog more than anything, he was super smart, loyal, affectionate and a high charging bird dog. I took out any reference to my pet and made this more of a general song about loss, and coping with the fact that the circle of life comes around for us all eventually. 

4. Little Fruit Fly: Dan Harris - Vocals, Guitar, Banjo.
Last spring my house was experiencing an unusually robust population outburst of fungus gnats. They seemed prone to visit bodies of water where they would paddle around a bit then not be able to get out, thus meeting their maker down in the depths of someone's drinking vessel.

5. Long Black Veil: Dan Harris - Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin. Brad Morse - Bass.  
This is my take on an old favorite that's been recorded hundreds of times at least. I’ve always found it slightly amusing that this song, like so much of this traditional bluegrass/folk/ country music, is written in a cheery major key, considering the subject matter. For this arrangement I changed it to a minor key and tried to make it a bit more lonesome.

6. Hoppers ate the Garden:  Dan Harris - Banjo. 
The great Colorado grasshopper infestation of 2024 ruined my garden, and a lot of other agricultural enterprises throughout the state.I wrote this tune over a couple week period while watching helplessly, as the hoppers mowed through my garden, getting fat and juicy on my vegetables.

7. The Ballad of Sally and Danny: Dan Harris - Vocals, Guitar. 
As a kid I used to go swimming and fishing at a spot on the Connecticut river about half a mile below the Vernon dam. On occasion, the operators of the dam upstream would open up the gates and let fly with a few million gallons of water. The river level would rise quickly and it was best to not be wading around with a fishing pole when this happened. The setting of this song is very real and a place I visited often. The lyrics are made up, there was no Sally who drowned or Danny, with his unlucky demise at the end of a rope. 

8. Sittin at the Bar on a Monday: Dan Harris - Vocals, Banjo. Enion Pelta-Tiller - Fiddle. Keith Summers - Banjo. Brad Morse - Bass.
I grew up on a steady dose of old classic country, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, George Jones. Of my earliest memories is that of sitting on my dads lap at the age of four, learning to hold a pick, strum and sing “Hey Good Lookin.” This tune comes from that little well of my musical memory. 

9. Summer’s Come and Gone: Dan Harris - Vocals, Banjo. Enion Pelta-Tiller - Fiddle. Brad Morse - Bass.
This is a song I wrote one afternoon while sitting by the St Vrain River with my banjo during a songwriting camp. The news of the day had headlines about immigrants being deported in vast numbers and leaving farmers high and dry to deal with the aftermath.

10. Hotdogs and Chardonnay: Dan Harris - Vocals, Harmonica, Guitar. Enion Pelta-Tiller - Fiddle. Brad Morse - Bass.
This song was a challenge to get out of my head, onto paper and whittled down to its current form. I spent a good five years and over 50 pages of lyric attempts and arrangement ideas before I got to this. It is about leaving behind small town America, like the rustbelt region I grew up in New England and just driving, leaving it all behind other than a partner, a lover, a co-driver who came along for the ride.