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NEW YORK STATE OF MIND (4 new studio gems plus a 14 song "Live" set​!​)

by Bill Mallonee & Muriah Rose

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gregoryalanthornbury Sometimes you just have to buy yourself a Christmas present. I'm happy mine was this Bill Mallonee record. And what could be better for a New Yorker than this sweet collection? Favorite track: GREENWICH (CIRCA).
Craigory Bacon
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Craigory Bacon 4-song studio EP bundled with a Live LP. The 4 new songs show off Bill's continuing mastery of his own production and exploration of new instruments. The live album is unique in that it leaves in pretty much all the banter; it also features an excellent setlist with several songs that have never shown up on previous official live albums. Favorite track: THE GOLDEN GATHERING IN.
Rob Szarka
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Rob Szarka Always great to hear Bill's and Muriah's voices together. :) Favorite track: RESPLENDENT.
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Greenwich (Circa) words/music: bill mallonee Well, the streets were freezing over when i blew into the Village 2 feet of snow and i was soaked to the bone no place to crash, and a little short on the cash I hit 3 open mics, and waltzed with all the dough Had a voice like an ancient text guitar slung round my neck Marine band harmonica ...always in tow you summon up the past to speak about the present songs are just telling 'em what they already know chorus: take the world a part and then but, be gentle my friend and try and put it back together again now most of the truth are the things they never tell you they keep it all disguised under a wallet of fear and what passes for riches among the bought and sold you learn to tell the fool's gold from the things that you'll hold dear chorus: take the world a part and then but, be gentle my friend and try and put it back together again...
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NEW YORK STATE OF MIND words/music:bill mallonee Rolling on the Thruway, past the farm where history was made Dylan's country face and Music from Big Pink Autumn in the Catskills always makes you think There's no greater peace you'll find Than a New York State of mind You can take it to the City, you can put it on mean streets or you could move it to the farmland; feel the earth beneath your feet You could roll your dice in Nashville; where they auto-tune your grief There's no greater peace you're like to find Than a New York State of mind You can swing down to Georgia where the peaches all taste sweet You can it train o'er to Memphis, the city of the King Tom Joad it to California, where the stars walk the streets There's no greater peace you're like to find Than a New York State of mind, etc.
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WHEN THE WALLS CAME DOWN words/music: bill mallonee when the walls came down i saw my life...flash before my eyes it wasn't as frightening...as i thought it would be 5 & 6 came together number 7 was on the way...we would call her Teresa after the saint chorus: when the walls came down everything became as water when the walls came down falling bricks & mortar it's raining, it's raining on me tried to tell the foreman you don't push materials past whatever weight they were ever meant to bear with a shrug of the shoulders, eyes down & a shaking of head 100 souls...vanish in thin air Writing the chapters Building the cities for nickels and for dimes building america....one brick at a time you come with some dreams ya' leave here berated, numb & null ...expendable
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THE GATHERING IN words & music: bill mallonee Well, the faint amber glow from the old campfires they are flickering out...they are flicking out And the last few embers vanish in the darkness' mouth...in darkness' mouth chorus: Hail to the saints and all of us beginners the lost sheep and the sinners all those "where-the-hell you been?" best friends the shaken & confused all those winners at "born-to-lose" at the golden gathering in and those old cowboy songs? well they rarely got it wrong but the world is always losing everything it wins she'll be comin' 'round the mountain shimmering like a fountain and on her lips? the sweetest of hymns chorus there's a blue moon in the desert and "all shall be most well..." said blessed Julian to her sisters at the well the disgarded & ignored the busted & the bored the fallen & untamed the one without a name last chorus Hail to the saints and all us beginners the lost sheep and the sinners at the golden gatherin' in....
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SOLAR SYSTEM 05:14
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SOLILOQUY 04:44
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FROM DAY ONE 06:22
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BANK 06:39
Bank music/lyrics: Bill Mallonee Originally from the album Permafrost (2006) it's been known for a train to jump its track it's ok so you'll know most the time they come back and it's ok to lose your life when you finally see your birth it's ok to say i love you figure sometimes it's gonna hurt don't forget to bring kindness don't forget to say thanks don't forget to spend your love no it will not break the bank don't forget to bring some empathy for the saints and the sinners don't forget to bring encouragement yeah we're all just beginners up here under par cans or down under the load how i got from a to b well God only knows me i talk a real good game practiced till i got it right but most of the crying you'll do it's inside most your life yeah i done you wrong and i hardly know why i hope that you will remember the more or less better side i hope the Cross is big enough when your sins reach to the sky hope the arms are wide enough to embrace one such as i
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Welcome to Struggleville music/lyrics by Bill Mallonee originally from the album Welcome to Struggleville (1994) all is quiet on the western front there appears to be a lull john and jane doe are sleeping well tonight with the little thoughts inside their skulls salome she's undressed to the nines and although a few pounds fatter she got pavlov's bells on her ankles and wrists she coming at you with a platter so i stole down to the waterfront to escape the desert heat oh what on earth you gotta do around here to try and get yourself a drink heard john the baptist preaching "make way for the King but if you want to recognize Him you gotta tell me all your sins" they are building a new gallows for when You show up on the street polishing the electric chair they're gonna give You a front row seat heard a sneer outside the garden salutation so well heeled "welcome all you suckers to struggleville" i've been trying to negotiate peace with my own existence she got a stockpile full of weaponry she breaking every cease-fire agreement oh the whole thing is full of decay as sure as i'm made of dust and into rust i know the beast is falling they are building a new gallows for when You show up on the street polishing the electric chair they're gonna give You a front row seat heard a sneer outside the garden salutation so well heeled "final stop no points beyond struggleville welcome all you suckers to struggleville"
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BLISTER SOUL 04:18
Blister Soul Written by Bill Mallonee from the album Blister Soul (1995) yeah you got this place you go it's just a trip before the fall way past the fevered pitch just a spit from the wrecking ball said you woke up this morning said you woke up under a curse i've heard the blues are bad but this is something worse and the ambulance driver well he tips his hat and stares and he asks you in a grave voice can i take you anywhere yeah the thing we cannot speak of too painful to behold oh this blister soul there's a smaller place you go where there's hardly any sound where the deals have all gone sour and the house of cards comes down and the damage is costly it's beyond all dollars and sense you can't measure it with graphs and charts or any instruments yeah the thing we cannot speak of the secret we all know oh this blister soul yeah from the trumpet blast i hear the banging drum yeah from once upon a time to the kingdom come and the thing that's yours for free is the thing i need the most oh stifles every boast stifles every boast yeah the thing that's hard to speak of but the secret we all know oh this blister soul
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Written by Bill Mallonee lyrics coming in for a few days my friend yeah more than likely I'll be alone yeah I asked if she'd like to go you know how she loves Chicago but she just said no whatever she wants whatever she might need I've got no more fight in me I must confess my own helplessness things got pretty weird inside right after the war I got kinda quiet for a long long long spell they say war is hell but it ain't nothing nothing like this she just slams the door when I try to hold her like I held on three nights at sea I've got no more fight in me mad dog bombardier hell I was mad dog all the time I could drop that payload on a Roosevelt dime but where we are there is no more north star and it's all dark and uncharted in our skies kid the flak was so thick you could get out and walk on it and that's what I did right back to that little bride-to-be but I've got no more fight in me she says I've changed (funny thing) don't people change all the time? it's been twenty years or more Stan since I had a good cry Originally from the album Friendly Fire (produced by John Keane & Bill Mallonee),
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FLOWERS 06:05
Flowers music/lyrics by Bill Mallonee for CyBrenJoJosh (BMI) Â ©2005 round here there's just trouble chasing after the wind buy that line with all the money in the bank and never ever look in to be so damn enlightened oh to be so free to be so down in the bottom of the ninth at the top of the century I came with dirty hands I came with blinded eyes tongue tied I could barely speak the truth about my tall lies they sold me on some pleasure till the pleasure it sold me into something that looked and smelled a whole lot like slavery we all need new beginnings the first steps make you better maybe you're just a prayer away from getting your sh*# together flowers growing out of the desert flowers out of parched ground flowers coming right up through the cracks of the pavement in your old town flowering's not a science it's more like a fine art flowers coming right up through the cracks of our broke up little hearts
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SKIN 08:24
Skin Music/lyrics by Bill Mallonee from the album Blister Soul published CyBrenJoJosh (BMI) ©1995 now i'd seen him despondent a few times as of late sometimes the answer that love gives is the hardest one to take i know he was prone to paint the voice of his own fear so Vincent he picked up the blade and he put it to his ear look at yourself in the mirror you're all rumpled red stubbled and gaunt you walk a dead end path in a dry corn field and now this morose response your princess she don't wanna see you no your princess she don't wanna hear so Vincent he picked up the blade and he put it to his ear now look if you're gonna come around here and say those sort of things you gotta take a few on the chin you talking about love and all that stuff you better bring your thickest skin sometimes you can't please everyone sometimes you can't please anyone at all you sew your heart onto your sleeve and wait for the ax to fall you there with the paint box you there with paper and pen me i got this blunt instrument i'm gonna play on 'til the end and you know you come with empty hands or you don't come at all you deal your best hand out in the marketplace and let the chips fall the package it comes wrapped up there is a lesson here Vincent he picked up the blade and he put it to his ear now look if you're gonna come around here and say those sort of things you gotta take a few on the chin yeah you're talking about sin and redemption well you better wear your thickest skin sometimes you can't please everyone sometimes you can't please anyone at all sew your heart onto your sleeve and wait for the ax to fall
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RESPLENDENT 05:37
Resplendent music & lyrics by Bill Mallonee from the album Audible Sigh. Published by CyBrenJoJosh (BMI) ©2000 yeah i remember the dark clouds raining dust for days on end blew all the earth out to california and just left us here with the wind in desperate times you know everybody's part but it's your own lines you're like to forget 'til what you were meets what you've now become grins and says "hey, haven't we met" lost my firstborn that winter and my wife on the first day of spring and so i poured my sweat into the earth yeah to see what that harvest would bring and i remember howling fury just like a plague of locusts egypt's punishment for sins of pride is that now what has come over us how much of this was meant to be how much the work of the devil how far can one man's eyes really see in these days of toil and trouble honey we're all resplendent yeah honey we are all thrift store i'm like a wino with a twenty dollar bill yeah forever and eternally yours i can make you promises if you don't expect too much yes and i will run the distance if you'll please please excuse my crutch how much of this is failing flesh how much the course of retribution my my how loudly we plead our innocence long after we've made our contribution
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A new discovery from the archives! the complete song listing is below) This is a very well recorded "live in the studio" recording PLUS 3 brand new New York State inspired songs! It all fits making for what we feel will be a wonderful album. 17 songs at a mere 13.99.
Mastered by Chris Bethea!

1. The bulk of the record is a fabulous, well-recorded show Muriah & I did at Jesse Sprinkle's Blue Brick Studios in Avon, NY.

2. We've left the stories about the songs & stage banter in on this recording. (This is the only time I've not edited out the story parts, btw.)

3. ALSO included are 3 brand new, recently recorded songs which have New York State as their inspiration. We are VERY happy with this cool finding from the vault.
We hope you'll pre-order this special low priced download today.
The price will go up upon release...Release date is mid- December.

Thank You grass-roots fans and friends,
Peace,
bill

The brand new studio recordings:
1. New York State of Mind
2. Greenwich Circa
3. When the Walls Came Down
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The Concert set with song prefaces & back stories
1. Solar System
2. Soliloquy
3. From Day One
4. Nothing Like a Train
5. Goes Without Saying
6. Bottoming Out
7. Bank
8. Welcome to Struggleville
9. Blister Soul
10. Friendly Fire
11. Flowers
12. Skin
13. Resplendent
14. Did I Tell You the Bullet's Still There? (encore)

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released December 15, 2015

Bill Mallonee: acoustic & electric guitars, voice, harmonica, drums, bass, lap steel, resonator guitar.
Muriah Rose: acoustic & electric piano, organ, voice

mastered by Chris Bethea

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Bill Mallonee

Bill Mallonee is an Americana artist w/ 80 plus albums over a 30 year career. Voted by Paste Music Magazine #65 in their "Top 100 Living Songwriters" poll. He was the
founding member of Vigilantes of Love. He has worked with Mark Heard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, & Peter Buck from REM.
His most recent work, "Lead On, Kindly Light" is a 23song double Cd released Feb 2020.
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