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Old Friends

by Cazadero

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1.
Below Zero 03:40
Last time I saw you, you were stuck up on that hill Popped the clutch out, let the brakes down real slow Got the hell out, anywhere you can go There’s people talking, saying things that burn the ears The great divide of our darkest days is not too wide for the ones we saved in a glimpse of light, the car goes off the stage it seems to fly but never ends that way This town gets smaller with the passing of the year For every newborn, a couple old ones disappear Seasons pass quick, short harvest, no spring These upstate winters crack the road and ice our grins The lake may be frozen but its thickness is unseen The boys next door fell in winter 83' Huddle inside with very little to eat Firewood's damp desperation is our heat
2.
Ain't So Bad 04:54
Sometimes you think you got it bad Living outta the car with your tires flat Thought you’d be in the sea with a sailor’s cap But now you’re back with me in Hackensack Settle down on the wrong side of the tracks Picked up an old habit or two With the brokedown boys behind the ol’ boarded school This warm beer never tasted so good Crazy, all your big dreams You can put them to sleep Cause your living is all that I see And being here now is all that we need Sometimes you think you got it bad But I caught you smiling behind my back Snuck a sip of my beer and flicked the bottle cap If I had the choice I wouldn’t be anywhere but here The good times are getting so rare So I’ll keep it light for awhile Songs in our pockets burning the hearts tonight Friends will be lovers hearing the songs we write Cause sometimes we think we got it bad but it’s just right Yeah sometimes it feels so wrong but it’s our night
3.
Last Mine 04:32
Looked up to the sky and all that it gave me Learned from the signs revealed from above Losing my mind in all the right places Coming alive in a hell-bound truck The lines in the road fall off and escape me Nothing around, but a clouded dust Word of the wise renounced and truncated Swallow my pride with a shaken trust Well, this time, I got a lead on you There's a little mine, where the gold is loose Driving all night with wind in our faces Struggling just to keep ourselves afoot Tearing through worlds unknown to the basins Men and the boys up to no good Told so many lies, it weighs on creation Loves of my life nearly fill a book Just up ahead the ridge a few paces Buried below is the golden soot Well, this time, I got a lead on you There's a little mine, where the gold is loose
4.
Jenny Jones 04:36
Count the hours in a day Don’t look back Don’t look ahead Jenny Jones in your bed She looks alright If she wasn’t half dead Closing time Just my sign To re-live the day Sun goes down Nothing around Rejoin the living dead Eighty-sixed from the hood With Jim Beam Sleeping in the woods Dr. Phil by your side Good advice If you will abide Closing time Just my sign To re-live the day Sun goes down Nothing around Rejoin the living dead
5.
Going down to the part of town Where the river runs dry and the beds are low You have passed into a blind man’s home Tires slashed by the side of the road Kid’s on fire with a loaded mind Simple manners a touch of the wild He has passed by the youth of his soul Bodies lie and give way to the bones There’s a ray of sun of his grave If the light shines right Underground in the rain They lose sight Faces blend into days That never wake Girl’s on fire with a flaming heart Never loved a man she didn’t tear apart She has passed in the wind of a train Gave birth with her hands in chains There’s a ray of sun of her grave If the light shines right Underground in the rain They lose sight Faces blend into days That never wake
6.
Old Friends 04:05
There’s a part of me, that is an old friend Running around, with a couple tall sins Parked in the dark, at a cul-de-sac of dead ends Planted at a bar, saying the same things Today’s the last of the year And only if, you were near… Cause we’d get on that ol’ dance floor Shrug our feet for all they are worth The boys playing the night they drove Dixie down And I’d tell you tonight I’m not messing around We may be old friends, but take a hard look at me now Yeah, you’re an old friend, but the now is the now I can hardly see, but that is a good thing Mirror behind the bar, is making my head spin Back in 85’, I’d make the girls smile They’d take a seat, maybe stay awhile Today’s the last of the year And only if, you were near…  
7.
We gonna last tonight, if it takes all night Grab your dress and a pie, you can leave the wine There’s a little grass up the hill, it’ll suit us fine Between the damn and a truck, see the county line It didn’t look, like it did Back when you, were a kid But it’s midnight And it’s alright It’s a hard life But a picnic…tonight We gonna last tonight, if it takes all night Grab guitars and your ex, no time to fight A couple kegs and a fire, and a grilling iron Bunch of dogs in the woods, and a doublewide It didn’t look, like it did Back when you, were a kid Lost our jobs, couldn’t pay the rent Hit the city now, left our friends But it’s midnight And it’s alright It’s a hard life But a picnic…tonight
8.

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Cazadero plays the kind of darkly-tuned, beer-swilling cosmic-cana that isn't out of place on a playlist with genre gurus Bill Callahan, My Morning Jacket, and the late JJ Cale.

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released April 9, 2013

All songs by Joe Hayes (ASCAP), arranged with S.Potter & Cazadero, except Pious Companion by S. Potter.

Joe Hayes | Guitars, Lead Vocals
Spencer Potter | Lead Guitar, Pedal Steel, Alto
Nate Cavalieri | Piano, Organ
Nate Baker | Bass
Jon Wujcik | Drums (recording)
Dan Baber | Drums (active)

thanks to:
Sam Edmondson (solo guitar Below Zero, Last Mine)
Nika States (vocals on Below Zero, Ain't So Bad, Jenny Jones)
Gata (harmonica, vocals You Have Passed)

Produced by Joe Hayes with James Riotto
Engineered and Mixed by James Riotto at Tiny Telephone
Mastered by JJ Golden
Album Art & Concept by Jason Tors

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Cazadero mixes 70s darkly-tuned cosmic Americana with Nashville vibes and moody living room jams.

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