Sometimes there's no substitute for the physical thing. This package — containing a CD with 13 original songs, and a bound, 32-page art booklet w/lyrics — is a like treasure itself, one to keep and revisit.
“I wanted to create the kind of CD that I enjoy owning myself,” Sue muses. “I like albums that take you on a journey: the songs stand on their own, but taken as a whole, the sequencing creates an even larger story. And I appreciate lyric booklets! And beautiful art. So, that’s what I’m going for here. There’s both ear-candy: interesting sonics, musical connections between songs, and stellar musicians, whose parts are sometimes like characters themselves – and eye-candy: artwork by friends, beautiful photos, lyrics you can read and ponder. It’s the kind of album that works on long car rides, when you’re in the open and can concentrate on the music, and also, anywhere you can listen and read the lyrics at the same time.”
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Horiscopically speaking, their relationship was doomed from the start
He was a Gemini, she was a Cancer
Love the elixir, youth the enhancer
Now he’s filed away under “B” for “Broken Heart”
She remembers that night, they were jostled on a crowded street
Drunks streaming out of the loud college bars, he scooped her
Up like a baby, his eyes shone like stars, and he said,
“See? I just literally swept you off of your feet”
And oh, in his arms, she was lighter than air
Her head on his chest, and he breathed in her hair
The crowds disappeared, so he put her back down
They walked side by side, they walked on and on
They spoke not a word, and night turned to dawn… Oh…
She remembers how everyone just knew that they were a “thing”
They’d meet in the Quad, when they finished their classes
Intending to study, but their books in the grasses
They kissed as magnolia blossoms dropped in late spring
And oh, how she nestled, so safe at his side
Wrapped arm in arm, they swayed like the tide
They’d walk through the cemetery late at night
The soft summer winds, the moon shining bright
Death at their feet, the geese wild with flight… Oh…
Now it’s decades later, it’s the Twenty-First Century
How had it ended, does she even remember?
A misunderstanding late that December
And it couldn’t be fixed, so they went their ways, separately
Now she hears that he’s married, a wife and three kids in L.A.
Hears that he works for a large corporation,
He went to Aruba on a month-long vacation
She wishes him well, not much more she can say
But oh, how she’d wept on that long-ago night
When good-bye seemed unreal after some silly fight
She thought things would turn, she thought he’d come back
But the wild geese had flown and the sky was all black
And the days turned to years, and life had gone on
Now she holds an old letter from a far-away dawn… Oh…
Horiscopically speaking, their relationship was doomed from the start
He was a Gemini, she was a Cancer
Love the elixir, youth the enhancer
Now he’s filed away under “B” for “Broken Heart”
Yeah, he’s filed away…
credits
from Treasures & Time Travel,
released September 23, 2018
Sue: vocals, guitar, keyboard
John Abbey: fretless bass
Jordi Kleiner: violin
Bob Long: piano
Chicago-based singer-songwriter Sue Fink enchants audiences with her whimsical perspective on the world. Her genre, “urban
campfire cabaret,” is folk with a hint of jazz, a large dollop of humor, and a drop of sadness for good measure: think Christine Lavin, with a dash of Rickie Lee Jones, Melanie, and Nellie McKay....more
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