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NEW! 2012

Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart
DEDICATION
Dedication
Here Comes The Pain
Here Comes The Rain
Little Rock
If You Change Your Mind
This Ol' Flag
Broken Heart For You
For A Long Time
Work'n On It
Iv'e Been Wrong, Iv'e Been Right
A Great Day To Fly

* Little Rock (Radio Version)

Review By: John Davy

Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart have been living and musicking together for nigh on twenty years, with an appetite for taking their songs out into the world that is pretty staggering. They reckon they average about 170 dates a year, and the current tour of the UK and The Netherlands (something like 50 dates inside two months) is testament to their stamina for the road. Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that the most immediately attractive song on this new collection is a road song, Little Rock. Sung in a tone of minor key weariness, the refrain lists the far flung bits of the North American continent they trek to in their Chevy van (half a million miles or so, and counting), and, for all the weariness, the song just oozes happiness and affection for the life they’ve made for themselves. There’s a touch of genius in the line of electric guitar twang, a la Glen Campbell, that Mark Stuart drops into the song with studied understatement.

That understatement is typical of their songwriting. A lot of these songs feature an old piano that they were given, but whether it’s guitars or piano at the heart of the tune, they have a McCartney-ish gift for building beautiful melodies from the simplest elements. These are songs about the ordinary mess of life, the ups and downs, the hard times and the fun times. The song that kind of partners Little Rock at the heart of the album is called The Flag, and is not actually sung. Stacey talks her way – well, maybe she’s just on the verge of singing it – through the musings of a mother remembering her boy. She remembers all the times of caring and worrying about her boy only for him to be seduced by the army and taken away to war. They address these hard issues with the same facility that they communicate a light-hearted playfulness that is never too far away, and this makes them complete artists – you’ll laugh, you’ll cry but most importantly you’ll feel that they’re pretty much like the rest of us and just happen to be able to put ordinary experiences into song.

I have a solo album of Stacey Earle’s from about a dozen years ago that had all the qualities evident in this new album. Ever tuneful, Stacey sings in a rich accent that is a joy to listen to, whilst Mark’s tenor complements her beautifully, like two sides of the same coin. The thing I’ve been enjoying most of all on Dedication is the underlying simplicity; guitar lines that seem to flow so elegantly and easily, piano chords that follow naturally on from each other – if songwriting was as easy as these guys make it seem, we’d all be doing it.

 

John Davy

 

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“Drive her ‘til she drops” tour. 2012
While we have traveled miles across the country together we have not been alone, Our Chevy Suburban has seen us safely up and over the Rockies in snow storms and ice. She has never failed to arrive at a gig on time. She is the crew!  We only can hope she will see us to the end of this journey!

    
“Drive her ‘til she drops” tour our mission to drive our tour vehicle 1999 Chevy Suburban into her final resting place, Our drive way! And why?, because she is still running great!, and she is paid for,  we bought it new with 17 miles on it in 2000 and as of today she has 484,584

“Yes It has the original engine” and,  "NO! Never has been overhauled!"
 It finally, after 379,000 got some transmission work, But hey! She has pulled us up and over the Rocky Mountains a few times a year.
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