Songs for Strangers and Friends, Vol. 1-4 (2017)

by Asa Morris

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1.	Asshole 03:52	info	buy track
2.	Winter is Leaving 03:46	info	buy track
3.	Tape's About 04:37	info	buy track
4.	A Little Time 03:16	info	buy track
5.	These are All Just Things 02:19	info	buy track
6.	Maybe I'm Giving Up 03:29	info	buy track
7.	A Line 03:17	info	buy track
8.	Let Everything 03:20	info	buy track
9.	Will You, Won't You? 03:03	info	buy track
10.	Kind of Like 02:10	info	buy track
11.	Nothing Bad to Say 02:56	info	buy track
12.	Argument in the Mirror 04:58	info	buy track
13.	The Way I Am 04:03	info	buy track
14.	I've Got a Way of Losing My Mind 03:44	info	buy track
15.	I Can't Write About Sex All the Time 04:58	info	buy track
16.	Somehow 04:29	info	buy track
17.	A Bad Habit of Keeping My Mouth Shut 04:45	info	buy track
18.	Maybe It's Not So Bad 02:18	info	buy track
19.	This is Fine 04:13	info	buy track
20.	Rattle Around 02:39	info	buy track
21.	In the Morning 03:28	info	buy track
22.	Tired 03:41	info	buy track
23.	Leave 05:25	info	buy track
24.	Spitting Blood 02:23	info	buy track
25.	Blame 04:21	info	buy track
26.	Arson 02:54	info	buy track
27.	Who Are You Now? 03:48	info	buy track
28.	Sleeping Through a Night 06:05	info	buy track
29.	I Can't Be Alone 03:00	info	buy track
30.	Song About a Conversation Dreamed 03:22	info	buy track
31.	I Don't Know Who I Am 03:56	info	buy track
32.	Trip Away 03:25	info	buy track
33.	Money 03:31	info	buy track
34.	You Can't Make Me Do a Goddamned Thing 04:16	info	buy track
35.	A Mess 03:05	info	buy track
36.	Alone at Night 04:13	info	buy track
37.	This is Not Getting Better 03:49	info	buy track
38.	Alien 03:50	info	buy track
39.	in Charge 03:24	info	buy track

about

Well, Jesus Christ.
This is a large, and completely unnecessary collection that I assembled because of one three a.m. thought that I had about a week ago;
Which of my songs have I played solo live?
With the Mess, or on the rare occassion that I do a full solo set, it's common practice to play a handful of the same material over and over, and occassionally sprinkle in new, old, or weird shit. However, open mics are a different animal. Open mics are for experimentation, fun, and release. So, playing a few of these a month, I'll try out new material, revisit old songs, or noodle around with what might eventually become a song. Perhaps not the majority, but a large portion of this collection is pulled from those recordings.
The sound quality, though I spent a brief amount of time cleaning it, does vary and sometimes wildly so. The sources range from a professional soundboard to a room mic, a cell phone to video cameras of varying qualities and formats.
Though I tried to uncover at least one recording (and in the face of choice, the best or most interesting) of each original song I played in the last few years, well, I don't record everything. A lot, but not all. Sometimes recordings become lost, ruined, or entirely unusable. Still, I did not anticipate a 2 1/2 hour, 39 track live record.
Along with a myriad of unincluded covers I know I also performed the following; "Let the Sunshine Die", "So, Where's My Love Song?", "Jesus Christ, Todd", "Keep Your Love to Yourself", "I Don't Know", "Like Before", "Intro/Untitled Song from MTA", "Forest Fire", "Half a Year", "Just", "Fuck Off Dude", "Give Me Something to Want", "Fighting All Night", "Optimism", "Jude Fawley", and many, many more.
To me, there is no real interesting thing about this collection, and after completing work on it (hitting save at the end of this note and uploading it all will be the end), only six days have passed since I thought it up and it remains a masturbatory, if not slightly neurotic waste of my time. If there is something here that you enjoy, well, good, of course. And if not, I completely understand, because I'm not sure if there is anything here that I enjoy either. I imagine I'll put out another volume or two in a few years though.

-A.

"Leave", "Asshole", and "I've Got a Way of Losing My Mind" recorded January 2016 at Putnam Den, Saratoga Springs NY by Stephanie Revelly for Upstate Music Fanzone.

"Who are You Now?", "Argument in the Mirror", "Arson", "This is Fine", "Song About a Conversation Dreamed", "Spitting Blood", "I Can't Write About Sex all the Time", "This is Not Getting Better", "You Can't Make Me Do a Goddamned Thing", and "Winter is Leaving" recorded May 22nd, 2015 at Rockhill Bakehouse, Glens Falls NY.

"I Can't Be Alone" recorded May 26th, 2016 at Circus Cafe, Saratoga Springs NY.

"Blame", "Rattle Around", and "Maybe it's Not So Bad" recorded May 24th, 2017 at Mean Max Brew Works, Glens Falls NY by Brian Michael Alvarado for Heady Productions.

"The Way I Am", "in Charge", and "Tired" recorded August 2016 at the 190 Bar and Grille, Glens Falls NY, for the Summer Indie Sessions.

"Kind of Like", "A Mess", and "Will You, Won't You?" recorded April 24th, 2015 at Rockhill Bakehouse, Glens Falls NY.

"Nothing Bad to Say", "Alien", "A Little Time", "I Don't Know Who I Am", and "These are All Just Things" recorded May 20th, 2017 at Mean Max Brew Works, Glens Falls NY.

"Trip Away" and "Somehow" recorded at Spring 2017 at JP Bruno's, Glens Falls NY.

"Sleeping Through a Night" recorded August 20th, 2015 at Circus Cafe, Saratoga Springs.

"Let Everything", "A Bad Habit of Keeping My Mouth Shut", "Tapes About", "Money", "Alone at Night", and "In the Morning" recorded July 23rd, 2015 at Wallabee's Jazz Bar, Glens Falls NY.

"A Line" and "Maybe I'm Giving Up" recorded July 9th, 2015 at Rockhill Bakehouse, Glens Falls NY.

All songs written and performed by Asa Morris, except "The Way I Am" performed by Asa Morris and Caitlin Barker.

Anyone who deserves thanks can be heard somewhere on these recordings.

(C) 2015 - 2017 Asa Morris
cover photo by Brian Alvarado, 2016.

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released July 13, 2017

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Musician originally from upstate New York. Makes art. Been in a few bands. Difficult, but generally an okay person.

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