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Porch Drive

by The Porchistas

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    10 song recording "Porch Drive" released on these snazzy 2GB flash drive wrist bands. You can stream the songs through a car USB port, or play the songs through your computer media player, or download the songs to your computer and use the flash drive for future storage.

    One size fits all. Includes album artwork, lyrics book, and a CD booklet if you want to burn the songs to CD. Artwork by Linda Everswick and Adam Falzer.
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1.
The Martyrs 02:53
2.
Intervention 05:01
Wellness Weeks Wellness Weeks Intervention, Intervention (4x) Baptised in a contaminated bay. Fisherman say go away we say no we have to play Intervention, Intervention Lost in a storm, thousand miles from the shore Ocean moshing comfortable and warm, now you finally got your song, I'm drowning, I like it. Wellness Weeks Wellness Weeks Intervention, Intervention (4x) (bridge) So much more than corruption and greed a killing machine, a killing machine lives and wallets, pride and inner peace dignity, sanity, empathy and health, You make them sick to buy your fix tricks, tracks and a fake abyss (3x) Stop looking down for the devil in the ground Evil hides as a helping hand, just another pawn, a generic brand a game I didnt even know I was playing, Till I lost, Till I lost, Here I am, Here I am (2x) Wellness Weeks Wellness Weeks Intervention, Intervention (4x)
3.
Song For You 01:58
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5.
Driving to key west from NJ with my honey singing songs along the way for food and gas money stopped off in nashville recorded in a booth in memphis we got naked in elvis's bedroom rode high into nola, think we got pulled over with a buck naked cop when we woke in pensicola dropped the man in tallahassee overheat in okeechobbee ran into abe vigoda drinking alcoholic chocolate sodas (chorus) Abe Vigoda drinkin Alkychodas at the Okeechobee Inn a bunch of drunk hicks in a big old lake and fish eatin gator steak (2x) snagged a bag of grass and some chodees for the road did the polka in miami on white sand and snow trippin all the way to the florida keys followed by some UFOs 7 mile bridge piss in islamorada slapped a barracuda drinkin a colada Pulled up to the pier and what do you know ran into abe vigoda drinking alcoholic chocolate sodas (chorus) Abe vigoda drinkin alkychodas on the pier at mallory square doin the polka with a fortune teller and a big ole grizzly bear Abe Vigoda drinkin Alkychodas at the Okeechobee Inn a bunch of drunk hicks in a big old lake and fish eatin gator steak solo on verse 1 Stanza – solo on chorus AM 16 bars – Abe Vigoda Rap Chorus Abe vigoda drinkin alkychodas on the pier at mallory square doin the polka with a fortune teller and a big ole grizzly bear Abe vigoda drinkin alkychodas At WFMU Doin the Polka With DJ Stashu And Frangry and Michelle were there
6.
Blue Louise 03:35
7.
Without butterflies the world will have few flowers So grow your wings and fly Feed the plants and float by the river And we’ll be here by your side Make great choices and take big risks if theyre good for you and the rainforest Sing really loud and don’t be afraid Cause You are the stuff of which butterflies are made (chorus) Hope hope hope for the flowers transform, embrace, and realize your power el bosque le necesita para vivir (the forest needs you to survive) (2x) sometimes the pile that everyones a climbin up seems like the shiniest thing but look in the eyes of the others you been stepping on and wake to the light of all beings (instrumental) (chorus 3 times)
8.
she deserves 03:00
she deserves someone who wants her yeah she does but its probly not me she prefers cocaine to coffee and dances naked in the rain by the sea life to her is a 4 string quartet dance in threes, in and out like a breeze passing light, playful and sweet rapid fire and a furiant beat she likes ta smoke with her needles a glass a whiskey for her disease dirty movies with the ladies and she was the hottest dish at the bar that Halloween shes in my bones don’t know how it happened a fatal look, a laugh and a lick he deserves someone just like him shes in his bed magnificently she deserves someone who wants her yeah she does but its probly not me she prefers cocaine to coffee and dances naked in the rain by the sea and dances naked in the rain by the sea and dances naked in the rain by the sea
9.
Bitter Fruit (free) 03:05
Louie in the box on a brothel floor, Bessie when she’s scrubbing the sink. Made herself small, floated away, white lighting was all he drank Momma went gone, with Crystal Kali, improvised iniquity Jivin, jammin, drinkin, jabs, can i have some candy please? (instrumental)  fiddle and a bone, saxophone, baby won't you tap those keys? Caged & muffled, broken & beat, Loverman where can you be? Strung up by the man, same as the Klan, They’ll never take all of me Mugshot, shackled to a sick room bed ... Bitter fruit tastes so Stray-ay - ainge (4x) (instrumental )  fiddle and a bone, saxophone ------ they’ll never take all of me (4x)
10.
1052 (free) 00:53

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"... songwriting that best accentuates eclectically expressed roots and globe-spanning styles makes “Porch Drive” the strongest release yet by The Porchistas." (Bob Makin, NJArts.Net)

"These genre-hopping folkies seamless drop a reggae shuffle into one track, honky tonk piano on another, skittery ska here and laconic country pop there; and while you'll smile all the way through, these guys drop some meaty ideas into almost every track" (Jim Testa, Jersey Beat).

Emerging from The Temple, The Jungle, The Trail and The Road, The Porchistas Rise Again To Do Battle With Polyethylene Sam!

10 original Porchistas songs released on Flash Drive wrist bands

The Porchistas are:

Alan Smith - lead vox, guitar
Adam Falzer - lead guitar, vox
Gerry Griffin - Bass
Jonathan Riordan - drum
Ed Fritz - keys

Guest Revengers:

Linda Everswick: Saxophone - The Abe Vigoda Polka; Bitter Fruit
Kelly Henneberry: Vox - Bitter Fruit
Jenn Mustachio: Vox - Hope for the Flowers
Nicole Scorsone: Violin - The Abe Vigoda Polka; Bitter Fruit - Backup
vox - The Martyrs; Precious Cargo

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released June 8, 2018

Recorded and mixed by Gerry Griffin at The Temple of Tuneage in Verona, NJ.

Produced by The Porchistas and Gerry Griffin.

Mastered by Adam Falzer on Beatrice 2 at The Porchistas Home Studio.

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The Porchistas Montclair, New Jersey

Born on a porch in Montclair, NJ. Lyrically driven Porch Rock

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