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
The Wages of a Man Unbound
Words & Music by John DeLore
lyrics
The Wages of a Man Unbound
Words & Music by John DeLore
The wages of my honesty was a cold and empty room,
But the wages of my white lies was an overflowing cup.
I drank it up and I swallowed it down.
I spun around in circles until I fell to the ground.
Words of a prophet and the tears of a clown.
These are the wages of a man unbound.
I chased a running rabbit to a far and distant town.
I had the same dream a hundred nights until I wrote it down.
I set it to a melody, and I liked the way it sounds.
When I sing it on a corner all the people they gather round.
A pallet on some stranger’s floor and I pass the hat around.
These are the wages of a man unbound.
We built a couple towers and they swayed up in the clouds.
We broke an ancient mirror and the towers came a tumbling down.
You danced for forty nights in a blood red hand-me-down.
You never been too good for me, but you’re fun to have around.
The blood above my doorway, the ashes on the ground.
These are the wages of a man unbound.
You said charity is like a window that lets the arrows through,
But an arrow through the heart is better than a room without a view.
And it’s true what you say when it’s somebody else’s town.
I guess it’s just another way to keep a body down.
Strange birds in the sky and the ashes on the ground.
These are the wages of a man unbound.
A season for the dreamer, an army on the ground.
These are the wages of a man unbound.
credits
from Blues For A Holy Ghost,
released August 8, 2016
The Wages of a Man Unbound
Words & Music by John DeLore
Mixed by Rick Kwan
Mastered by Justin Shturtz
Recorded by John DeLore, except
*Pedal Steel recorded at Party Slamland Amusement Park,
Hamburg, Germany
*Organ recorded at Blackler Mastering
Drums - Jason Isaac
Bass - John “Better Bet on Betty” Bettencourt
Pedal Steel - Ollie Samland
Piano - Aya Kato
Backing Vox - Grace McLean
Organ - Kevin Blackler
Harmonica, Vox, Rhythm Guitar, Yamaha PS55 - Rev JD
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