| Streets and Avenues (Enhanced CD) |
| Album credits and liner notes Traffic is a good thing. That is as long as your car doesn’t break down. And of course if you’ve got, as Chuck Berry said, "no particular place to go." It’s especially good if you feel like working on lyrics, melody ideas, or some snappy dialogue to stick in that manuscript that’s been hunting dust bunnies under your bed. Sometimes, it helps to get out on the highway about rush hour and watch all the people in the cars around you come ever so close to blowing their collective top. It’s very disturbing, but somehow peaceful. And inspiring. It also creates characters for your fiction (or nonfiction) out of thin air. And since everyone’s moving slowly, you don’t have to worry about someone road-rage ramming you at too high of a speed. You can also drive a big car for protection, like a Mercury 1989 Grand Marquis. I recommend taking a batterypowered cassette-tape recorder, a couple cans of Tecate (chosen for their resemblance to Coca-Cola cans), some pens, and a notebook. Just pull into the gridlock and let the ideas fly into the recorder. Usually, it’s a mess. A big waste of tape. But every once in a while, you’ll get lucky with a keeper that was worth the trip. But who’s to say whether or not the trip was worth it? Sometimes it’s good just to get out of the house. Hand Grenade Head Originally called "Phone Call from Parts Unknown." Lyrics originated on Eden’s Expressway, Chicago. From Never Go Home Glitterhouse Records (2002) GRCD 559 LC 08323 Produced by The Great Crusades Devon Avenue Lyrics written on Western Avenue, close to Devon in Chicago. By the batting cages. From Never Go Home Glitterhouse Records (2002) GRCD 559 LC 08323 Produced by The Great Crusades Never Wanna Go Back to Indiana The Patio. 6308 N Guilford Ave., Indianapolis, IN. Tell ’em we said hello. Unreleased Recorded during the Never Go Home sessions (2002) Produced by The Great Crusades The Great Crusades The only song I know of that mentions an El Camino. This is the live, punk rock version. Recorded live at JZ Karo; Wesel, Germany (2000) Engineered by Reinhard Wilczewski From The First Spilled Drink of the Evening Trocadero Records (1999) Mud Records (1998) Streets of Bakersfield If we would have played this sloppy in Bakersfield, we would have been tarred and feathered. Oh well, forgive us Buck. This is always a good one live. Recorded live at The Orange Blossom Special (2001) Engineered by Thorsten Luck Written by Homer Joy Originally performed by Buck Owens This CD contains enhanced content in video format. Hand Grenade Head (video) Filmed at The California Clipper in Chicago Filmed by Matthew Doc Pedrolie Edited by Brian Hunt Music by The Great Crusades* Words by Brian Krumm and The Great Crusades* *except Streets of Bakersfield (Joy) Photography by Stephen Austin Welch © 2002 The Great Crusades (ASCAP) |
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