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Long Cool Journey (Deluxe Album)

by the Vinyl Skyway

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    In addition to the 11 tracks that comprise the album, an additional 8 songs will be provided as bonus tracks, including demos and alternative mixes.
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1.
Fever 04:06
Sally knows, she leads my silence Sally sways, a raging fire There she goes Walks on into the night Ebbs and flows, my ship steers rightly A treasure trove, so out of sightly There she blows, There she blows There she blows! Gettin over you (reel around the fountain) Getting older too (how soon is now) Fever's cold, cold, cold Got the mid-winter blues Feelin whiter (girlfriend in a coma) Feeling brighter (bigmouth strikes again) Fever's cold cold cold Got the mid-winter blues Yeah but I'll go meet you tonight in the city doll I'll know when you come around and we can make it right When she knows it's time to face me Please don't go, or I'll go crazy Off she goes Off she goes Off she goes Feelin whiter (reel around the fountain) Feeling brighter (how soon is now?) Fever's cold cold cold Got the mid-winter blues Gettin over you (william it was nothing) Getting older too (strangeways here we come) Fever's cold, cold, cold got the mid-winter blues Written and composed by Michael Hayes ©2023 Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI. All rights reserved.
2.
Words flowing from this pen So here we go again Time tribulation tales True love fail I got my hooks in you What are we gonna do? I know you feel it too This is through She don't worry anymore the sign is on your door and she knows when your sun and when your moon they will collide Worries worries all the time Hunted on the line and she goes "weather's fine, just take your time and let your groove go" She stole a line from a movie She stole those lines all her life She's all lookin' pretty That girl once was my wife She don't worry anymore the sign is on your door and she left with your sun, and with your moon and she waved goodbye Worried worried all the time wearin out your daddy's clothes weather's fine, take your time and let your love flow Written and composed by Michael Hayes and Andrew Santospago, ©2023, Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI and Sacred Twine Publishing/ASCAP. All rights reserved.
3.
Travel King 04:10
Travel king you left your jokes downstairs in the dirty file with last year's taxes No, you can't pay for them til dawn So far gone in a wretched well That suits your style, and seals my jail cell Take another look you wrote the book The friends I once considered soldiers Look at me with one eye slanted Now we know it's true This city doesn't want you And we don't really care, No! This is what you wanted So leave it if you dare Just go! Pack your bags, take the next train out It's time.... We lost you. Just a ghost above my fireplace resting in an urn And now it's my turn Another day, another night without your light So pick up all your broken soldiers and see if you can mend some fences Now they know it's true the city doesn't want you the city doesn't care no more Pack your bags, take the next train out it's time to go You lost me Was it fiction, was it propaganda televised? My plans have been revised. Written and composed by Michael Hayes. ©2023 Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI.
4.
everybody wants to say goodbye watch em while they wail their heads and cry everybody wants to say hello the say they love you but your life's been so so-so it's been a long cool journey blind tooth fairy piggy bank pristine bleeding the porch light dirty on the prairie you were 17 you, i'll miss you take us back for a sunrise stop by for a quick line with the girls who can make time and the boys who are blue it's been a long while since I've seen you smile would you take this time to be true? it's been a long cool journey mine since 30 piggy bank pristine bleeding the porch lights dirty on the prairie you were 17 you - I'll miss you everybody wants to say goodbye everybody wants to say goodbye everybody wants to say goodbye everybody wants to say goodbye I'll miss you Written and composed by Michael Hayes. ©2023 Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI.
5.
On your way back, sitting your car watching myself in the rear view the seats are black top's down free cold inside must be 99 out I'm back to the place you're never gonna leave I'm back, and it's a summer day It won't take long just ride in back and play my tracks on this summer beltway day On your way out you've been slamming doors and changing prescription medication I'm alright just relax Find yourself some meditation I'm back to the place you're never gonna leave I'm back and it's a summer day You're love is gone And your lies won't last Cuz we're fading fast We'll all be leaving here on the fly and you'll be taking that pill But it's just enough to get by Is it enough to get by On your way out? On your way down... On your way back Yeah, summer day Yeah summer day Yeah summer day Yeah summer day Written and composed by Michael Hayes. ©2023 Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI.
6.
I've gone away, sold my guitars and moved for you Took a job in the city Walked past the bars and gave my soul to you I tried for you girl I died for you girl Happy little boy with his wind up toy Busy as you want him to be I could be who you want me to be if you cared I tried for you girl I died for you girl Take me back to Boston Somewhere down Old Route 9 Fake it when you tell me you love me I don't really want the truth I cried for you girl I died for you girl oh yeah, I've gone away Written and composed by M.A. Hayes, ©2023 Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI. All rights reserved.
7.
The ageless hipster reads his sonic journal About the indie record release - hope springs eternal There's a girl lookin retro While she fans herself with the Metro Headline: Can't Buy Me Love Here's a story: handsome boy meets girl (way back when) rests his arms across her shoulders entrusting his commitment to a lifetime of equipment We're uncertain of the right words Hearts stony as a quarry Can't do nothing with your sympathy But thanks for being sorry In leuix of flowers my dear I wrote some words down About those formative years Hiding in the background Do you remember me now? We're uncertain of the right words to consecrate the story Can't do nothing with your sympathy but thanks for being sorry We're uncertain Hearts of stone Can't do nothing... Ah subterranean hearts where the tender parts come with a fare thanks for being sorry Written and composed by Andrew Santospago and Michael Hayes ©2023, Sacred Twine Publishing/ASCAP and Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI. All rights reserved.
8.
Wasteland 04:19
I'm a survivor of a Wasteland caught within Too scared to fight so I slump my shoulders and just give in Blind to the whims of your frequency babe Blind to the hymns my family sang Blind to temptation.. High on the smoke from a corporate bulletin So lost am I that I cannot cope without the gin And time will show it on the feet of my crow Time will tell it to my children I know and I must face it Tonight you're asleep in my bed and I'm out of my head again Deny we're already there so wipe off your tears Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow we just might make it Admire all the houses on the shores of Lake Michigan The rich compile this radius north from Evanston They fly on their private jets with disdain Lied when they lost their money again Cried to their children... tonight you're asleep in my head And I can't get out of my bed again Deny that we're already dead So wipe of your tear tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow we just might make it I'm just a hero from a fable of yesteryear So lost am I that I do not notice my lonely fans And time will show it on my feeble frame Time will tell you that I lost this game but I can take it and tomorrow, we just might make it Written and composed by Michael Hayes ©2023, Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI. All rights reserved.
9.
Well it's a habit of doing what you're told to do First Communion and all the shame they gave to you you got no right to complain you were lucky more than bright low and behold, low and behold you saw those city lights well they told you you could want for nothing more then you lost faith You left the church in 84 you took a ride to that strange place lost in a bustling town low and behold, low and behold ya found your way around picture the world in a moment fleeting from yesterday dig out the faded photographs are you laughing? are you crying? sentimental? you're just dyin… while you're feeling bad well baby try to let it go can't conceal it that pain has got you on the floor when therapy won't suit you the radio will bring you through low and behold i'll find my way to you low and behold low and behold we still got more to do Written and composed by Andrew Santospago/ASCAP and Michael Hayes/BMI. ©2023 Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI. All rights reserved.
10.
All ups and downs ups and downs run from the thieves hide from the clowns girls bright-eyed blue this once was you all ups and downs, ups and downs all ups and downs ups and downs hide from your dreams and run from your towns girl bright-eyed blue this was for you all ups and downs ups and downs i get home in a worry six feet under ground watch me drink a whiskey bottle I turn into a rodeo clown all ups and downs ups and downs run from the thieves and hide from the clowns girl bright eyed blue this was for you all ups and downs ups and downs Composed by Michael Hayes; Lyrics by Michael Hayes and Paul Gray ©2023 Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI. All rights reserved.
11.
Watertown's Dry - I can feel it in my shoulders Yeah the wind blew us in Two brothers filled with sin Waiting there to die Carver Road - another load for us to carry The early morning lies The cigarettes and flies and Watertown's Dry Bus 72, I pull down your string right around School Street And I will try to be discreet on the early morning bicycle rides Watertown's Dry I showed it to my cousin And my southern friend he'll be there til the end and Watertown's Dry Bus 72, I pull down your string right around School Street And I will try to be discreet on those back morning bicycle rides Let us not forget the streets that made us wet the things that made you cry I miss you - so long and now I'll say goodnight ... Watertown's Dry Composed by Michael Hayes; Lyrics by Michael Hayes and Paul Gray ©2023 Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI. All rights reserved.

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Long Cool Journey is the fourth full-length album by the Vinyl Skyway, recorded and mixed by Producer / Engineers Dave Westner (the Weepies, Peter Wolf, Dropkick Murphys) and Paul Kolderie (Radiohead, the Pixies) at Woolly Mammoth Sound in Boston. Both engineers contributed musical cameos, as well as the band, led by singer/songwriters M.A. Hayes and Andy Santospago, singer Kristin Cifelli, bassist Marc Hickox, keyboardist Dave Lieb, cellist Ian Maksin and percussionist Andy Plaisted.

Five years after the original recordings, the Vinyl Skyway are pleased to present a deluxe version of Long Cool Journey exclusive to Bandcamp, with bonus tracks of demos and alternative mixes.

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released September 9, 2023

All songs written and composed by Michael Hayes and Andrew Santospago, ©2023 Vinyl Skyway Music Publishing/BMI and Sacred Twine Publishing/ASCAP. All rights reserved. Bonus track Poor Side of Town was recorded at Kissy Pig Studio by Karl Mogensen and a compulsory license shows that it was written by Johnny Rivers and Lou Adler ©1965. All bonus track demos were recorded at home studios, either through an iPhone, ProTools or Garage Band.

All songs recorded by Dave Westner at Woolly Mammoth Sound. All songs mixed by Paul Kolderie except Subterranean Hearts, Lo and Behold, Ups and Downs, Watertown's Dry, and an alternative version of Travel King, mixed by Dave Westner. Long Cool Journey was mastered by Adam Ayan of Ayan Mastering (formerly Gateway).

Musicians performing on Long Cool Journey include Kristin Cifelli - harmony vocals, Michael Hayes - songs, guitars vocals, Marc Hickox - bass, Dave Lieb - piano and keyboards, Andy Plaisted - drums, Andy Santospago - songs, lead guitars, vocals, David Westner - upright bass, piano, brushes, Ian Maksin - cello

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The Vinyl Skyway have independently released numerous critically acclaimed records and singles worldwide since their formation in 2003. The music is described as "shimmery pop Americana with killer dashes of CSN harmonies." The band's sophomore classic "From Telegraph Hill" invites comparisons to the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Big Star and Fleetwood Mac. Listen to Long Cool Journey, now available! ... more

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