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Find The One

by The Coal Porters

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1.
Barefoot On The Courthouse Lawn 02:58
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keep on believin' that the sun's still heavin' a little light our way bright enough to keep us warm & motivate the day keep on hopin' that the sun ain't jokin' & rain will stay away cause we got plans to hear the band who's setting up today to lose your blues you gotta lose your shoes no socks, no never mind there's music in the village square and watermelon on the vine a crow aged eight to eighty all tapping feet in time 27 strings pick Glendale Train in summer's bright sunshine strolling past a statue of a soldier so forlorn he's thinking of a battle fought before, fought before fought before I was born Mister, it's all over put down your gun and stay the fiddler's hot! (the banjo's not) but listen to them play the sun ain't leavin' so stop your grieving you're gonna make me yawn nothing could feel better than barefoot on the courthouse lawn to lose our blues you gotta lose your shoes no socks, no never mind no sandals & no sneakers the fresh cut grass feels fine sippin' cool mint juleps the band plays on & on you never could feel better than barefoot on the courthouse lawn nothin' could feel better than barefoot on the courthouse lawn
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Never Right His Wrong 04:01
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he came back one hot September night he said " I've been so lost but I can make it right" you know I fed you lies, lest we forget here I am, love, the rest I regret he hung his hat up on that 'ol nail in the wall looked around, thought man she's a doll so many days and nights, that starry prairie sky all he'd been lookin' for is some kind of sign Chorus his arms were open, his yes like the dawn, but she ain't the same since he's been gone his mind was made up, the past an older song but she knew then that he'd never right his wrong she turned her back, wiped the sweat from her brow knew she couldn't bear even one more row poured him a glass of his ol' Yukon Jack, lookin' at the floor, her heart felt the cracks excuse me honey, I'll be right back. she crept downstairs, found some kind of sack threw in some memories, said can't do this no more turned on her heel and just bolted out that door Chorus the rain had come but she couldn't feel a thing past the wheat fields, you could almost hear them sing now the whistle of her own harvest train takin' her away, its tune a sweet refrain no more grain and gas and yellow canola fields her eyes are waitin' on Pacific Ocean teal the sky is clear now, a west coast eagle soars this train is bound for that Rocky Mountain shore Chorus
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Hush U Babe/Burnham Thorpe 05:09
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hush you babe, keep it quiet no more tears, you best deny it we're on our own, we had to try it hush child, don't you cry or weep pray the Lord your soul to keep this train, it has no track of time but this family is still all mine dear heart, we're so alone just remember , we're headed home you trust your Ma, we love you so yes, I'm scared, what can I do? so very scared, right through & through Good Shepard, please bless this road for your cargo's a heavy load full of hope & right & rage but better Death than another cage ten miles a night without a word sshhh, is that a hound I heard? you know what happens if we're found side by side we'll lay in Heaven's ground Poppa's right, we must not fall till we rest 'neath Selema Hall then cross the Ohio on a raft of birch to raise our voices loud in Town Clock Church I smell the magnolia on the vine just taste the air, as sweet as wine hush you babe, there's little time sound like someone getting close I pray it is not the Holy Ghost a few more miles, then we're there I love you all, I do I swear
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The Betsey Trotwood (instrumental) 03:18
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Heroes 05:19
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I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, for ever and ever Oh we can be Heroes, just for one day I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing will drive them away We can be Heroes, just for one day We can be us, just for one day I, I can remember (I remember) Standing by the wall (by the wall) And the guns shot above our heads (over our heads) And we kissed, like nothing before (nothing before) And the shame was on the other side Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever We can be Heroes, just for one day We can be Heroes, just for one day
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Red-Eyed & Blue 03:28
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the curtain stayed up on our three act romance we didn't sleep so we'd more time to dance scenes set at moonrise, the sun's early glances first coloured us red-eyed and blue our second act was a radio play phoned-in performances three times a day walking the line versus playing away would leave one of us red-eyed and blue red-eyed and blue over you red-eyed and blue over you my rainbow's colours are down to just two I'm red-eyed and blue over you all her friends said he would ramble and roam but her infidelity started at home what could he do? red-eyed and blue tried to get even but only got more red-eyed and blue over you picture the scene in some heartache hotel no pool but whisky and where his tears fell sounds like the neighbours are getting on well as the red neon light turns to blue daytime and sunshine a porch and a swing older and greyer he still feels the sting given the chance would he do the same thing? and he laughs but his eyes say it's true red-eyed and blue over you red-eyed and blue over you my rainbow's colours are down to just two I'm red-eyed and blue over you
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Ask Me Again 03:05
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ask me once, ask me twice ask me over, ask me nice ask me softly, ask me slow ask me later, why I don't know I get the feelin' you're reelin' me right in I get the warmest glow of lovin' ever been I get the feelin' some fun will soon begin ask me again, please ask again in a tavern, in a bar it don't matter where we are in a motel on the bed in my own mind, in my head I get the feelin' you're reelin' me right in I get the warmest glow of lovin' ever been I get the feelin' some fun will soon begin ask me again, please ask again ask me once, ask me twice ask me over, ask me nice ask me softly, ask me slow ask me later, why I don't know I'll be believin' the pleasing once again I'll be conceding your love will never end I'll know the answer to the question from my friend ask me again, ask me again ask me again, ask me again
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Brand New Home 03:04
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I've got the keys to my brand new home met a man in Memphis he showed round his home said we don't all live in Graceland I'm a rolling stone and this land is mine from shore to golden shore when you don't live anywhere you keep an open door I've got the key to my brand new home a place that I can call my own nothing set in stone be my guest at my brand new home people say I'm invisible but they can't see life was all ladders then I found a tree I found branches that even I could climb life in this great outdoors is only borrowed time don't do no names but I'm big on faces and where they all belong resting place is a state of grace and I won't be here for long used to live in a library, now it lives in me I built my home in there one page at a time then I found the key to a world that won't turn anyone away my house is your house join the thousands who all stay I've got the key to my brand new home a place that I can call my own nothing set in stone be my guest at my brand new home
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Gospel Shore 04:42
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who's that walking on the gospel shore? who's that walking on the gospel shore? who's that walking on the gospel shore? beneath a lamp His head did bow beneath a lamp, saw His head go bow beneath a lamp His head did bow alone, alone, all alone was He alone, alone, all alone was He alone, alone, all alone was He a restless soul in agony Chorus I come from Abyssinia gonna walk to Galilee I seek to lose these shackles I seek to set men free gonna march right with my brothers gonna stand beside the sea when the pharaoh comes to cut us he'll drown in our victory the blind live on but they do not see the deaf live on but they do not hear the mute live on tho' they do not speak and we march on and we do not fear they come as one they come in threes they come as one they come in peace they come as one they march with me 2nd chorus from a chasm so hard slanted deep within my soul a savage place abandoned a rock which never rolls a king's shadow once demanded its right to block the sun a thousand campfires burn alike their light becomes our one! the wind blew high, the sun dipped low the wind blew high, the sun dipped low the wind blew high, the sun dipped low and still He walked but He's walking slow ash and sand along the gospel shore the weight of the world now for evermore ash and sand along the gospel shore if Heaven awaits, what are we livin' for? if Heaven awaits, what are we livin' for? Chorus I come from Abyssinia gonna walk to Galilee I seek to lose these shackles I seek to set men free gonna march right with my brothers gonna stand beside the sea when the pharaoh comes to cut us he'll drown in our victory
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You Only Miss Her When She's Gone 03:24
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if you love them and you leave them if you love them not for long then you'll soon see love in shadows you'll only miss her when she's gone once I had a darlin' pal I loved her every day she was pure as mountain air and so I said I'd stay then came time to preacher up then came time to pray I lit out for my Southern home left my wedding far away! Chorus once I knew a pretty gal so I snag to her my song she joined right in on harmony her melody so strong this music that we made for life could capture any ear but I see me as a soloist so I said I couldn't hear it was Gatlinberg in Tennessee one day in mid-July I found myself a-waltztin' sweet with a gal named Nellie Bly I knew she was a match for me and I told her by and by then I met her husband Hank and I went away to cry Chorus now you've heard my story now you've heard my song if you find someone to love you'll know where you belong Chorus
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Farmers' Hands 02:59
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these will never be farmers' hands farmers' hands these will never be farmers' hands when I was a boy, there really was no question I would farm the way my father did made a choice to plough a different furrow these will never be farmers' hands living off the land, it is the oldest story all this going away and looking back all these songs still asking us to sing them wishing we had farmers' hands these great calloused hands not for keys and buttons 'til the box and fiddle take the air then the tunes come flowing from these fingers these are surely farmers' hands I can understand living far from the sea but how we can live so far from the land? we'd like to think we know what it is to dig and sow in our best-laid plans these will never be farmers' hands don't know what I'd say today to guide my children if I'd made the farmers' life my own killing fields, making people crazy you got by with farmers' hands these will never be farmers' hands farmers' hands these will never be farmers' hands
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Paint It, Black 03:39
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I see a red door and I want it painted black No colors anymore I want them to turn black I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes I have to turn my head until my darkness goes I see a line of cars and they're all painted black With flowers and my love both never to come back I see people turn their heads and quickly look away Like a new born baby it just happens every day I look inside myself and see my heart is black I see my red door and must have it painted black Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue I could not foresee this thing happening to you If I look hard enough into the settin' sun My love will laugh with me before the mornin' comes I see a red door and I want it painted black No colors anymore I want them to turn black I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
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Heroes (Single Edit) 04:19
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The Betsey Trotwood (Live, Stockholm, September 2012) 03:27
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Final Wild Son (Live, London, October 2012) 02:04
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You Only Miss Her When She's Gone (Live, Memphis) 03:12
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Never Right His Wrong (Live, Memphis) 03:34
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18.
Hush U Babe / Burnham Thorpe (Live, Lerwick, Shetland, 20 July 2013) 05:31
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‘Find The One’ features (take deep breath) five new Sid Griffin songs, an astonishing campfire cover of David Bowie’s classic ‘Heroes’, a guest appearance by ex-Fairport Convention guitarist Richard Thompson as well as the first ever appearance of BBC radio legend Brian Matthew on an alt-country recording! To say nothing of a sitar and fiddle battle on the Rolling Stones’ immortal Paint It, Black. Yes, a real sitar.

Produced by the legendary John Wood, the man who recorded Fairport Convention in their glory days and who produced Nick Drake, Squeeze and Beth Orton, ‘Find The One’ was recorded in north London earlier this year.

It was mixed by Ed Stasium in Colorado USA, Ed being best known as Phil Spector’s main engineer and for his work with the Ramones. Stasium mastered it too so it is the best sounding Coal Porters recording ever done.

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released July 2, 2020

Find The One - The Coal Porters

Produced by John Wood
Engineered by John Wood with Ben McClusky
Recorded Snap! Studios, Finsbury Park, London

Mixed & Mastered by Ed Stasium, Durango, Colorado

Carly Frey: violin, vocals
Sid Griffin: mandolin, harmonica, autoharp, vocals
Neil Bob Herd: guitar, dobro, vocals
John Breese: banjo
Andrew Stafford: bass, backing vocals
Tali Trow: bass, backing vocals

Special guests:
Brian Matthew, courtesy of the BBC
Richard Thompson: guitar solo on Hush U Babe/Burnham Thorpe
(RT appears courtesy his family & Fairport Convention)
Jules Bushell: musical saw
Robert Elliott: sitar
Charlie Thomas: percussion

No varmits or critters were harmed in the making of this album.

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The Coal Porters claim to be the world’s first “alt-bluegrass” act, demonstrating the power of fiddle, mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar and doghouse bass when matched with four-part harmonies and memorable melodies.

They have taken this sound around the world being featured on NPR’s Morning Edition in the USA and having recorded a live session for Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2. ... more

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