So, you found a Blackgrass album in the wild…

 

BLACKGRASS 

by 

SHINY RED NOTHING 

Your New Favorite Blackgrass Band.

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Engineered, recorded, mixed, mashed, and produced by the amazing Matt Ten Clay at Amber Lit Audio in Grand Rapids, MI. 

 May-August,  2023.

Mastered by the astounding Andy Reed @ Reed Recording Company in Grand Rapids, MI

 November, 2023

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All songs by Jeremiah Strickland 

©️2023 Punk Rock Superhero Music

 except:

• Hope & Water by Jason Wells (from the Lost Days Of Captain Johnny Sinclair by for algernon)  ©️2005 Grandpa’s Chili 
• Let Me Be Your Liquor Man by Damon Green, Kenny Sprinkle, Aaron Strickland, & Jeremy Strickland (Originally performed by The Minni-Thins on In Black Cause I Asked) ©️2005 Punk Rock Superhero Music

•  Aurora Borealis by Stephanie Cole, Thelonius Juice (TJ) Meyering, Jeremy Strickland, and Jesse St John Wallace ©️2023 Punk Rock Superhero Music

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Shiny Red Nothing is:

• Stephanie Cole: vox & percussion 
• Thelonius Juice (TJ) Meyering: bass, omnichord, & backing vox
• Jeremy Strickland: guitars, vox, banjolele, ukulele, mandolin, & keys
• Jesse St John Wallace: drums, Percussion, & backing vox

With:

• Evie Peacock - backing vox

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Dedicated to the memories of Robert Cole Jr. & Victoria Taylor Strickland, may they rest in peace.

Shiny Red Nothing would like to thank  Ereberto “Eddie” Doumeric  for his Friendship, wisdom, support, and practice space. We couldn’t do it without you, guerro.

 Thanks also to: Matt Ten Clay, Andy Reed, Jason wells, Evie Peacock, Heidi Kiacz, Viktor Peacock, Nic Kliekover, Aaron Strickland, Michael Bond, Timothy Seiwert, Richard Van Grouw, the Minni-Thins,  Park Theater, & Missing Days

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SIDE A 

1. Baited Breath 
2. 
   

Please call and say come over when you're done with your homework and you wanna come play 

I'll try and play it cool while my heart is racing like it wants to get out  

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait 

Ooh ooh 

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait

 Ah  

It's like a Friday evening with the weakest promise of chocolate ice cream 

When we can get together, it's like candy confection, it’s my favorite thing 

So long 

So sad 

When you're gone 

Oh, come back 

We'll sing like this: Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba  

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait 

Ooh ooh 

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait 

Ah

2. Lovely Mathematician 

she spoke that sweet language 

killed me symmetry dead 

she spoke that sweet language 

killed me symmetry dead 

she spoke that sweet language 

killed me symmetry dead 

now the vibrations from her tongue 

still bounce through my head  

she shook her tambourine 

invoked a sweet spirit 

she shook her tambourine 

invoked a sweet spirit 

she shook her tambourine 

invoked a sweet spirit 

now my body’s left me writhing freely, 

making me sweat  

I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me 

and lulled me to being 

some cosmic theme’s come conquered me 

and lulled me to being 

some cosmic theme’s come conquered me 

and lulled me to being 

now my heart’s a beating factor of her equation  

she worked out hoodoo ragtime 

with femme caramel skin 

she worked out hoodoo ragtime 

with femme caramel skin 

she worked out hoodoo ragtime 

with femme caramel skin 

now my two-beat pulse is racing

 out of syncopation  

I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me 

and lulled me to being 

some cosmic theme’s come conquered me 

and lulled me to being 

some cosmic theme’s come conquered me 

and lulled me to being 

now my heart’s a beating constant of her equation  

she rode ellipse around me 

friended me like a fire 

she rode ellipse around me 

friended me like a fire 

she rode ellipse around me 

friended me like a fire 

now my satellite’s in orbit

 with copernican spin  

I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me 

and lulled me to being 

some cosmic theme’s come conquered me

 and lulled me to being 

some cosmic theme’s come conquered me

 and lulled me to being 

now my heart’s a beating factor of her equation 

I said a lovely mathematician’s got me factored in

3. Honey

I’ve got no money, honey, but I’ve got some news 

I’ve got a handmade shelter, the fire shows my moods 

So, let’s get cozy 

Your secret, show me 

We’ll set it loose  

Leena, feel the beat 

Know where your center’s at 

The fire takes your feet 

Tiny crop circles form 

Shadows, dust, and light 

Play with my senses torn 

Leena, feel the beat 

Know where my center’s at 

I can surely lead you on to the commotion

 Leena, feel the beat  

I’ve got no money, honey, but I’ve got no blues 

We need no man-made currency to stock our rooms 

So, let’s get cozy 

Your secret, show me 

We’ll set it loose

4. The Devil Can’t Dance

sweet is the day, when you pass it away

with your hips and your thighs and your feet and your legs

she surely can’t dance, but she surely can sway

what it’s really about is the lips on her face

it’s a sin, girl

it’s a sin, girl

when you sway, oh

it’s a sin

I do not know where she learned it all from

her daddy’s side or maybe her mum

sweet Jesus knows what I’m talking about

it’s the devil’s work when she comes around

it’s a sin, girl

it’s a sin, girl

when you sway, oh

it’s a sin

I heard the truth in an old country song

the preacher’s not right if his wife is all wrong

the devil can’t dance, but she surely can shake

the devil can’t dance, but she surely can sway

5. Hope & Water

I need some, I’m in a lot of pain pills 

Temporarily relieve all of my ills 

I need a tempo I can dance to

 So I can get drunk, and scream out that I love you  

Now 

Before I go 

I just wanna let you know 

Before I go  

I think we should be perfectly honest 

Each of us has a little dirt on us 

All I need’s a little hope and water 

To clean up myself after my self slaughter   

Now 

Before I go 

I just wanna let you know 

Before I go  

All these drugs  

Never make you disappear  

They just make me smile 

Through my time here  

I need some, I’m in a lot of pain pills 

Temporarily relieve all of my ills 

I need a tempo I can dance to 

So I can get drunk, and scream out that I love you  

Now 

Before I go 

I just wanna let you know 

Before I go

6. A Walk In The Park 

Lucy plants herself amongst the soil and roots

 till she knows the flora/fauna by name 

The stickbugs in the leaves know what’s carried via breeze and shiver as they hear her name 

It’s Lucy  

Ah, Lucy, go go go 

Come on, come on, come on 

Ah, Lucy, no no no 

Come on, come on, come on 

Ah, Lucy, go go go 

Lucy, you’re the only girl I know who says hello to everyone with her teeth  

When you made me fall and scrape my knee 

I just wiped the blood, that’s how love can be  

Ah, Lucy, go go go 

Come on, come on, come on 

Ah, Lucy, no no no 

Come on, come on, come on 

Ah, Lucy, go go go 

Lucy, you’re the only girl I know who says hello to everyone with her teeth

7. Eyes Forward

I woke up on Sunday morning 

Tempted by the thought of sleeping in 

But then you hooked your arm around me 

And whispered,”Please, 

Make eggs for me” 

And so I did  

With eyes forward  

Snuck up on me in the kitchen 

Moved by scarlet thoughts of lips to lips 

And when you wrapped your arms around me, 

I smiled, “Please, 

set the table for me, 

And call the kids”  

With eyes forward  

And when you wonder why 

Then I wonder how 

All the memories we buried under the ground 

Found their way back to town  

After the sun has left 

No light behind to reflect on 

Distant echoes from that tidied town

We left back eating our ground 

I won't find work as a pilot 

Nor build a house or dig a grave 

Loving you's fine work 

And we're so good at doing our jobs almost every day

With eyes forward

SIDE B

8. Let Me Be Your Liquor Man 

I go to the liquor store 

Run out and go back for more 

And in the evening when I leave the bar 

I stop at the drive through Liquor store 

Yeah  

I got good genes in me

9. Psychic Red, Psychic Blue 

Psychic Red and psychic blue

Possess a golden kind of hue

Gets cast down

Hits the ground

And absorbs in to

Psychic grass with psychic roots

Feels way down in search of nu-

Trient rich, friends with dishes

Psychic food

All that I wonder

All that I want

All that I wander 

And all that I want

Is you

Psychic well of psychic glue

Blows right by like a breeze do

It gets stuck to your feeling

Psychic cool

All that I wonder

All that I want

All that I wander 

And all that I want

Is you

Psychic Red, Psychic Blue

Psychic Red, Psychic Blue

Psychic Red, Psychic Blue

Psychic Red, Psychic Blue

10. Chorus Of The Zombie Apocalypse 

the zombie 

apocalypso is the song 

of this prudish 

melody we’re calling “God” 

and all his daughters 

are conjuring up six pagan dogs

 with their priestesses with fiery red flesh headdresses on

and all the muddy 

rivers of this vital Earth 

are over teeming 

with six corpses giving birth 

to awful armies 

rape the world and giving head to the master;

 all the dead look simply understated in his arms 

and I was certain to be the wander 

certain certain certain certain 

certain to be the wander 

certain certain certain certain 

certain to be the one 

certainly the wandering eye of 666 

keep me abreast, keep me abreast, keep me abreast 

of the zombie 

apocalypso is the song 

of this prudish 

melody we’re singing, God

11. Aurora Borealis

I wanna see a UAP

Interpret the Nazca Lines

And I wanna read those files

all of those files, those files

I wanna be orbital

See Bermuda Triangle 

Aurora Borealis

Phenomenon 

Phe nom eh non eh non

Phenomenon 

Phe nom eh non eh non

Phenomenon 

Phe nom eh non eh non

It’s a phenomenon 

I wanna walk in the footprints of 

A yeti, dive into Loch Ness or

See the ghost of a ghost of a ghost of a ghost 

I wanna live in the sea

I wanna see the moon men

Reveal their secrets to me

Phenomenon 

Phe nom eh non eh non

Phenomenon 

Phe nom eh non eh non

Phenomenon 

Phe nom eh non eh non

It’s a phenomenon 

I wanna trade in black market fossils

Deal in alleged photos 

Of an archaeopteryx 

I wanna travel the world 

In just five seconds 

I wanna get high

12. Speaking For Trees

if it weren’t for the seasons

 that change all my reasons

I’d miss some

floating and waving and 

staking your claimings of wisdoms

you see from this angle you barely see your seams

sneaking up softly and saying you speak for me

is like gathering together to say that we speak for the trees

come on

while flapping and waving, 

I’m never betraying your systems

with my seething and breathing

 and scores of dumb screamings

 of wisdoms

you see from this angle I barely see my seams

sneaking up softly and saying “we speak for trees”

is like gathering together to silently shake our knees

come on

you’re doing your job

 and reflecting to Ra

 what you see on

the surface is blue streaks of white

 with orange where the sea meets

with mouthfuls of insects and 

 branches of leaves almost gone ‘til the spring

I see sound

you see from this angle we barely see our seams

sneaking up softly and begging to shake our knees

wind over water holds promise to shake orange leaves

come on

13. A View Of Morning Light 

Look, baby

A diamond of night sky

Like a needle eye’s view of the morning light 

And when I see you with the very next day

We’ll smile and say, “It’s good to see my friend again”

With everything you learn you’ll know well that you are

With every color you discern from another color that tells you

With your keen light, you will surely travel far

You’re not unlike that diamond star

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