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Storm Free EP (fdm149)

by Chris Anderson

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Storm Free 02:53
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2.
Estrange Me 01:28
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Half-Grin 01:54
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Say It With Knives 01:35
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Mr. Green's Retreat 02:20
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Monkeys 04:17
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The Knot 01:22
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Drivin' The Range 03:13
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Storm Free II 03:07
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about

Once upon a time there was this little album called Storm Free. Writing began in January 2004, just after meeting Krissy for the first time. Following in the path of the previous year's heartbreak-driven album, The Crown, this album was sort of the other side of that coin. The calm after the storm, if you will. This would be the last album to be recorded in The Hole and was released in January 2005, during an epic solo performance at Zig's.

Fast forward to 2019. We were nearing the end of the initial run of so-called "anniversary albums" (old songs, grouped together by era, and re-recorded as the albums they could have been) and that whole 2003-04 era got the treatment, resulting in an album called Whatever.

As with A Thousand Heels Abound, I wrestled with releasing "Storm Free" as a single, since I already had a release under that title, but this was the clear choice for a single. And so it came to be. While there weren't a great deal of completed (unrecorded) songs from that era to revisit, there were a lot of really weird, little songs and those were an absolute blast to record. One such song, "Monkeys", had only been partially completed so that was finished for the EP and, honestly, it is one of the all-time coolest FDM songs. Also, "Storm Free II", a more relaxed, alternate arrangement of "Storm Free", had initially closed out the original album, but both songs featured the same lyric. This was rectified for this release, with "Storm Free II" getting the bookend treatment once again, this time in a more legitimate form.

This EP was initially released on Flyingdeer Records but, once Rust pulled the plug on that label, the EP went out of print and the tracks were dispersed among five different rarities compilations (which are now available to stream everywhere). However, as with some of the other EPs released on Flyingdeer Records, this is such a solid, purposeful record in its own right that it definitely warranted a reissue on the FDM label. I am more than happy to welcome this record home.

Storm Free - rock it!

-CA, 2/9/23


Fun fact: "Storm Free" was written 19 years ago today. How wicked the way time flies.....

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released February 10, 2023

"produced" by Chris Anderson
Recorded & mixed in The Room, Spring 2019

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

All songs written by Chris Anderson in 2004
(c) CA / Flying Dachshund Music (BMI)

Special thanks to Krissy for breaking the storm free.

(p)2019 (c)2023 Chris Anderson / Flying Dachshund Music. All rights reserved. Violators will feel the storm.

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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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