A digital download of the album now & your 12” vinyl copy of the album will ship early 2017.
**This will be a small run, limited pressing, and to get the vinyl presses rolling, I need to pre-sell a few of copies. Makes a great gift for a vinyl lover in your life!
Includes unlimited streaming of Blues For A Holy Ghost
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 90 days
edition of 200
$20USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
A digital download of the album now, and then in early 2017 you’ll receive a 12” vinyl pressing of "Blues For A Holy Ghost" PLUS! a 12" vinyl copy of my album "Little John the Conqueror."
Includes unlimited streaming of Blues For A Holy Ghost
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 90 days
$30USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
A digital download of this album now, and then in early 2017 you’ll receive: the 12” vinyl pressing of Blues, the 12” vinyl pressing of Little John the Conqueror, plus CD copies of my THREE other albums: Songs From Church Avenue from 2012, Sweet Talk for Pretty Daughters from 2012, and Ode to an American Urn from 2009
Includes unlimited streaming of Blues For A Holy Ghost
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 90 days
$45USDor more
about
House of Cards
Words & Music by John DeLore
lyrics
House of Cards
Words & Music by John DeLore
We were raised in a house of cards. Our father was afraid of the wind.
But every night we prayed & we prayed, “Oh, Mother let the storm begin.”
The walls were made of cups and spades, the diamonds were used for the floors,
But there has not been a heart in this home since a long time before the war.
It’s a house of cards. Won’t you blow it down?
And while you’re at it take this whole damn town, if you please.
We tried to live on love alone, but love couldn’t pay the rent.
Well, neither could we live on water and bread, so we lived on our dreams instead.
They said Jesus was a gambling man. He bet it all on red.
But when he woke up broken and gone, his Daddy raised him from the dead.
It’s a house of cards. Won’t you blow it down?
And while you’re at it take this whole damn town, if you please.
We have loved just to stay alive, some who did not deserve our love.
We gathered up what was left of our home.
It’s a song and you’ve heard it. I know you’ve heard.
It’s a house of cards, and it’s blowing down.
Don’t you be a fool. Take a look around.
There’s a brand new day comin’ round.
There’s a brand new day comin’ round.
credits
from Blues For A Holy Ghost,
released August 8, 2016
House of Cards
Words & Music by John DeLore
Mixed by Rick Kwan
Mastered by Justin Shturtz
Recorded by John DeLore, except
*Drums & Bass recorded by Bryan Pugh
at Wicker Elephant, Woodstock NY
Drums - Charlotte Cornfield
Bass - Jordan Scannella
Fiddle - Marshall Baker
Piano - Aya Kato
Vocals - Anna Ty Bergman, Grace McLean
Guitars, Vocals - John DeLore
Snaps - J.S. Leibowitz
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