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fave it Modern Folk | Americana
10 tracks | 34 minutes
Released Dec 2006
on Greg Thelen
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:16 Girl Out Island Road lyrics BUY MP3 03:16 Girl Out Island Road lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:16 Girl Out Island Road
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 Guys Who Think They're Special lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 Guys Who Think They're Special lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 Guys Who Think They're Special
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:00 Pump the American Dream lyrics BUY MP3 04:00 Pump the American Dream lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:00 Pump the American Dream
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:50 Letter in My Back Pocket lyrics BUY MP3 02:50 Letter in My Back Pocket lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:50 Letter in My Back Pocket
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:21 Boulders on the Hill lyrics BUY MP3 03:21 Boulders on the Hill lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:21 Boulders on the Hill
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:32 I Could Never Love Anyone (the Way I Love You) lyrics BUY MP3 02:32 I Could Never Love Anyone (the Way I Love You) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:32 I Could Never Love Anyone (the Way I Love You)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:07 When the Time Has Come lyrics BUY MP3 04:07 When the Time Has Come lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:07 When the Time Has Come
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:05 Glory Road lyrics BUY MP3 05:05 Glory Road lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:05 Glory Road
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:25 Alone lyrics BUY MP3 03:25 Alone lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:25 Alone
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:47 A Little Extra Time lyrics BUY MP3 02:47 A Little Extra Time lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:47 A Little Extra Time
Smart lyrics meet rockin' Americana, sweetheart folk, an uptown sound, and grinnin' blues -- and make waves in your senses.
Bio / Background
The songs on Enough Thunder can loosely be described as Americana--with a few suprises. Greg Thelen is a Portland Oregon songwriter with varied interests in music.
Greg's descriptions of the songs:
The Girl Out Island Road is a simple love song with painterly images and a big acousic guitar sound. When I first started writing this, the focus was on another person, but as the song evolved, the girl kept edging herself closer and closer to the center of the picture. It's where she belonged all the time.
Guys Who Think They're Special is a song about what some guys do when they're feelin' large. Casey Scott owns the chorus with smoky conviction. Wow. The alto sax fine-tunes the mood.
Pump the American Dream - Just a little ditty that sheds some light on a volatile subject. This arrangement took a bit of time to figure out, but once I got the rhythm hook on my Strat, things started falling into place.
Letter In My Back Pocket is a true blue story.
↓ more ↓That guitar riff is in the style of Muddy Waters, may His Eminence rest in peace.
Boulders On the Hill is my reaction to all those dominant types who think they know so well how to manage the rest of us. It all started when I bought a piano at a time when world events were tearing through my brain. The basic riff and idea just came jumping out the first time I played it. If this song had Jesus in it, it would be called Gospel music. I call it alt. gospel.
I Could Never Love Anyone (the Way I Love You) is a lot like the roots music I grew up with. At the last minute I couldn't resist adding the little bridge toward the end--I love those old Jimmy Rogers songs.
When the Time Has Come is another song that came out of a new instrument - guitar. There were three different riffs I kept coming back to over and over. I thought they were going to be three songs, but they really belonged together as one. After I finished it, I wondered if anybody else would know who or what it was about. Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe there's a bit of everyone in it.
Glory Road - Ever have an experience you've struggled to put into context? Maybe everybody has their own glory road. I had fun turning this one into an old fashioned power ballad.
Alone came to me like a bolt of lightning out of a clear sky - well, maybe a cloudy sky. It is the first of a series of songs that surfaced when the struggle to come up with something "good" had overwhelmed me. The version on the cd was the third arrangement I did. Sometimes less is more. I dare a popular singer to cover this one.
A Little Extra Time - Fingerpickin' blues will never die. This was a lot of fun to write and record. It was always going to be the last song on the album.
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