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Wild Pink Yonder by Knox Bronson
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Wild Pink Yonder from the Flight of the Atom Bee cd http://bit.ly/atombee

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Baby has been gone for four nights now. I walked all over the neighborhood looking for her, calling her name, tonight. No luck.

I am having this weird paranoid idea that she got taken away as karmic retribution for the deer I killed on my way home the other night. My car is still in the shop for that crash.

In any case, I am posting a free download of a song I wrote for her, “Baby’s No Help,” as an offering to what/whomever might have some say in her safe return home. Come back, Baby!

This cost $18, so it stays. Sorry.

I recently got a very rude email about this song from some woman who (a) considered herself somewhat of an expert on the blues and (b) actually believed I might possibly care about her ramblings. She asked me if I had ever listened to Robert Johnson. Actually, I think she asked if I even knew who he was …

She basically said that “If I Was Sober (I’d Go Get Drunk)” was fake blues, because (a) I can’t play blues guitar (b) it is a silly song and (c) … I forget … To all of this I wish to respond … normally, I take criticism with a grain of salt: I have no false modesty about my work; I know what I put into it, even songs like this. But sometimes, no. Make that always, it is the duty of the artist to confront such egregious asininity head-on.

Dear Ms. No-Boundaries:

Of course the song IS silly; there are thousands of silly blues songs. I mean, read the damn title for Christ’s sake.

What do you mean I can’t play blues guitar? You mean like, say, Eric Clapton? Well no, but I play from the heart and this song comes from real-life hurt (I still remember how it felt when I figured out what that girl was up to! Luckily I was still drinking and that helped a lot.) and therefore it is a real blues song, dumb ass.

And lastly, as some old blues guy said if it hasn’t been hocked, it can’t play the blues. Well, if that is the criteria, this guitar is Lucille, Jr. and I am BB King’s bastard son. Word.

Your truly,
K.B.

And for the rest of you:
Click here to download If I Was Sober (I’d Go Get Drunk) and feel free to write me about it! I care!

This was to be included on the cd, Pop Down The Years, but when I listened to playback at the mixing/mastering studio, it became clear that this recording, made in my voice coach’s living room, was way too noisy for commercial release. So we rerecorded the song for the cd one stressful afternoon, using a steel-string acoustic guitar (and I hate the feel of steel strings) … it came out okay. But I like this version better. I used a Godin nylon-string Multiac guitar plugged into a Roland GR-33 guitar synthesizer for the string pads. Recorded live, of course … Enjoy!

Click here to download “Celeste.”

You will need to visit this page on my site, Sun Pop Blue, to download the original final song for “the seasons,” “isle of islay revisited.” It’s 15 megs or so, for fifteen minutes of music … enjoy, my lovelies! Free of course … a gift from a barnacle to a tugboat … a bean to a stew … wait … i have it … a flower to a garden …