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Fragile Bones (fdm146)

by Chris Anderson

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Fragile Bones 04:41
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2.
Don't Stop The World 05:19
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3.
Down On The Riverbed 02:49
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4.
Everybody Wants Some 03:12
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5.
Keep On Truckin' 02:46
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about

After returning from Newfoundland in the fall of 2014, and setting up shop in The Room, new songs started coming, many of which were inspired by my new adopted home. Laziness prevented me from recording those songs for quite some time but every time a new song came around it was tossed into the bag. By the middle of 2018, there was a solid double album of new songs, ready to be recorded. The only problem was that I was having issues with my 8-track, but that was rectified when I tracked down and purchased an identical unit.

Less than thirty minutes after taking this new 8-track out of the box, I was already recording and it wasn't long before I had both discs of the album recorded, as well as a handful of b-sides, which are what make up this EP.

The lead track (single) is a song that was initially conjured up back in 2000 and was immediately forgotten until I came across the demo on a tape where that track was not listed. It blew me away that I could leave something like this behind so I immediately completed it and recorded the first of several demos of this song. While there were other single-worthy songs on the album, which was titled Paper Ball, this was the one I kept coming back to, so this was to be the single. This song still blows me away.

"Don't Stop The World" is the original version of a song that was rewritten the following day as "Cut & Run", which appears on the album. This recording, however, was made after the other one had been done, but was deliberately tracked to sound like a rough pass through a song draft. This is cool and I dig the immediacy though the album version is the superior song.

"Down On The Riverbed" and "Everybody Wants Some" were both written for the 2016 album, Doing Time On The Horizon, but were not recorded at the time (there are three songs on Paper Ball that have the same source). People seem to dig the latter song. It's groovy.

The last song on the album is a random song that was written real quickly one night and demoed on my iPhone. The song is quite literally about the night I was born and is a fun little number.

As with The Trinity Loophole, and so many others, this was originally released exclusively by Flyingdeer Records and is only now making its debut as a full-fledged FDM release.

The artwork on this single, as with the art on the album itself, was discovered on the wall in the children's ward of the abandoned Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (and then adjusted accordingly). I wish I knew the story behind these paintings but it's probably better that I do not. I only hope that the person who painted them found peace at some point.

-CA, 2/9/23

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released February 10, 2023

"produced" by Chris Anderson
Recorded and mixed in The Room, Summer 2018

CA: acoustic & electric guitars, bass, mandolin, banjo, drum programming, percussion, vocals, other shit.

All songs written by Chris Anderson
(c) CA / Flying Dachshund Music (BMI)


Special thanks to alla y'all.


(p)2018 (c)2023 Chris Anderson / Flying Dachshund Music. All rights reserved. Violators will have the fragility of their bones tested.

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Chris Anderson Alexandria, Virginia

Chris is a wildly prolific songwriter who has hovered among the outskirts of the music world for over 30 years. On his own label, Flying Dachshund Music, Chris has released 154 CDs, 96 of them being full-length albums. That's just the tip of the iceberg and there are no signs of stopping. Ever.

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