

Debut album "Little Copper Still" out now on Clubhouse Records!



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Track Listing (click tracks for lyrics) 01 + Blood & Wine Lost my heart in a game of cards,

fashioned a replacement from bottle shards,

stamped down my boots to get 'em on,

hitched a ride in the first red dawn



I got blisters on my fingers from counting out

the bills to bribe my witnesses,

got a headache from the whisky and the weather,

tornado tuggin' down my red dress.



Oh saviour, won't you send me a sign?

Can't tell anymore what all is mine.

Forgotten how to fathom fortune's design,

can't taste the difference between blood and wine.



Said that old dirty highway's too straight for me,

I'd rather take the long way around.

Got my clothes from the back of a pickup,

got my soul from the lost and found,



And I'll come round tappin' on your doorframe,

singin songs for a bit of pocket change,

and if you don't like what you're hearing,

detune me till I'm outta range



I been lookin' all my life for a good man,

sweet as maple sugar and rye,

but everyone I ever got close to,

tipped his hat, sparked his heels and said goodbye.



And I left you standing on a dark street

the night you thought you'd set me free,

well it's all that I can do not to tell you

I'd pay for your pale hands on me.

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Banjo & Guitar: Jason Moffat,

Bass: Pedro Vidal, Drums: Stephen Coates 02 + Chokecherry Blues Jack Salt walking down the barbwire road,

said, darlin' I can help you carry that load,

Lover won't you come home to me,

meet me under the chokecherry tree



Take you to my house, pitch cedar and pine,

porch all covered with heartattack vine,

And I'll make you up a supper, fried eels in a pan,

little oleander in your silver billy can



Said, lover won't you come home to me,

meet me under the chokecherry tree

And I'll make you up a pallet at the foot of my bed,

lest you need to rest your beautiful head



And in the grey morning no stars will shine

and the dawn will cleave your body from mine

And I'll wrap you up in linen, put the talents on your eyes,

sit and wait for the pale sun to rise



Say I'll wait for you Jack, till you forgive me,

meet me under the chokecherry tree,

I'll wait for you Jack till my soul is free,

meet me under the chokecherry tree.

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Guitar: Jason Moffat,

Bass: Pedro Vidal, Drums: Stephen Coates 03 + Ten Gallon Mile Ten years waitin' in a dustbowl town

For my gambler's luck to come around

Said to my demons, come follow me down,

Ten Gallon Mile put my bones in the ground



Saw you out walkin' in the yellow sunshine

Jack of Hearts stridin' your invisible line

Desert rose bloomed in this heart of mine

Cold steel thorns all silver and fine



Took you in 'cause brother, it'd been a while,

Fallin' for you would be my heart's sore trial

Said, this Capulet collapses for your rhinestone smile

Kickin' your heels down the Ten Gallon Mile



Lonesome hearts are hungry for a human love

I was hangin' on your every breath

Thought your soul fit mine like a hand in a glove

But we were severed, my love, in death



Cut you from the cross with my pearl-handled knife

Laid your hands across your chest

The sheriff's court done taken your life

The buzzards'll do the rest.



When that dark day of Judgement's finally here

I won't fly up with the angels to the cold blue air

Just come to the crossroads and I'll be there:

The girl with the ribbons in her long red hair



Ten years waitin' in a dustbowl town

For my gambler's luck to come around,

Said to my demons, come follow me down

Ten Gallon Mile put my bones in the ground.

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Banjo & Guitar: Jason Moffat,

Bass: Pedro Vidal, Drums: Stephen Coates 04 + Phoenix Two little birds on the telegraph wire

heading down south 'fore the winter comes down,

think I can fly on their pretty wings of fire

'Cross the border while the sun goes down



Got a full jug of whisky and a new pair of shoes,

got my daddy's leather jacket and my mama's smile,

got a lifetime of singing the wintergreen blues,

won't be comin back for a long long while



Don't you worry 'bout me now,

you ain't really to blame,

thought you'd burnt me into bitter ash

but I'm a phoenix rising in a yellow flame



Black road winding like a ribbon of coal

from the mountains in the pines right down to the sea

between the desert and the lonesome pole

nothing but a canopy of stars over me



Gonna take my tin cup to the town saloon

set it up beside me on the red leather bar,

make a bit of money howlin up to the moon,

leave before dawn in the first freight car



I can live driving horses on the rolling plains

or hustling up for money in the city streets,

in the California sunshine or the delta rains,

world lies paved in gold at my feet



When you see my picture hung up on the wall,

lights all around like a halo of pearl,

you'll know just as sure as summer turns to fall

it's time I came to claim the whole damn world

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Guitar & Mandolin: Jason Moffat,

Bass: Pedro Vidal, Drums: Stephen Coates 05 + Lover's Reel Lord, ain’t you the best thing

that I ever saw,

come down and dance a reel with me,

I’ll teach you what your feet are for.



Lord, ain’t you the best thing

that I ever saw,

come hold my hand and kiss my mouth,

I’ll teach you what your tongue is for.



Lord, ain’t you the best thing

that I ever saw,

come lay with me my darlin,

I’ll teach you what your bed is for.



Well, Lord ain’t I the best thing

that you ever had?

Come live with me and be my love,

I won’t ever make you sad.

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Guitar & Bass: Jason Moffat,

Drums: Antony Giannini 06 + Extrication Row Drank all the beer in your parlour,

ate all the honey in your jar,

took a hundred dollar bill from your coffee can,

drove away in your brand new car.



Don’t you send the state cars for me,

you don’t even know my name.

All I ever wanted was to be free,

no trouble, no blues, no blame.



Well, baby, I shoulda told you

a long long time ago,

wherever I come from I always finish up

on Extrication Row



Think a gold band gonna hold me,

think a veil gonna tie me down?

I’m married to the darkening highway,

left a trail of dust in every town.



Once saw a bird on a millblade,

high above the black tree fern,

but he flew away as soon as the wind blew,

and them arms began to turn



Well, baby, I shoulda told you

a long long time ago,

wherever I come from I always finish up

on Extrication Row



Now baby don’t you fret so plaintive,

don’t you know that leavin ain’t no crime?

I might not have given you my heart, but

I gave you a grand ole time



And if you stand out on your front porch,

look out of your window now and then,

you might see me on the horizon

if I’m passin through here again…



Well, baby, I shoulda told you

a long long time ago,

wherever I come from I always finish up

on Extrication Row

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Banjo & Guitar: Jason Moffat,

Bass: Pedro Vidal, Drums: Stephen Coates 07 + Withering Pines Down in the withering pines

down in the withering pines

I took a life that was not mine,

down in the withering pines



Lain in a pool of blood

lain in a pool of blood

just like a sinner after the flood,

lain in a pool of blood



Meltwater wash my hands

meltwater wash my hands,

Lord, strike me down here where I stand,

meltwater wash my hands



Crows in the deepening sky

crows in the deepening sky

circling above me with their black eyes

crows in the deepening sky



Jesus, what's left to save?

Jesus, what's left to save?

Bury me in an unmarked grave,

Jesus what's left to save?

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Banjo & Guitar: Jason Moffat,

Bass: Pedro Vidal, Drums: Stephen Coates 08 + Letter to a Lover I'm gonna sit right down and write me a little letter,

a letter to a lover I will meet someday.

I'm gonna sit right down and write me a little letter,

figure out all the sweet things I'm gonna say.



Oh I know that someday I will meet my sweetheart,

he'll call my name and I will turn around,

and I'll fall straight into the arms of that sweetheart,

then I can will lay my burden down.



Well, tell the Fates that I will find my true love,

somewhere round the bend of the river or the road,

and tell them surely bad luck's all behind me,

and fortune good upon me shall be bestowed.



Well I've often had a life of sore misfortune,

I picked every bad apple in the cart,

but now I have true faith in my revival,

that someone good and true will win my heart.

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Banjo & Guitar: Jason Moffat,

Bass: Pedro Vidal, Drums: Stephen Coates, Violin: Sheila Schat 09 + The Colour My lover has gone far away,

cross the blue horizon.

Left my heart’s flag here to sway,

a wound to gather poison.

Said he’d send me somethin' back,

down the jagged range,

but I’m the Queen they dealt his Jack,

some things never change.



Bought a pitch and staked his claim,

stretched the wire round

Pray there’s more than dirt and shame

in that stony ground.

The water rushes thin and clear

back here on the plains,

pray he’ll find the colour

to repay me for my pains.



Lover, won’t you come on home

cross this dusty land?

Don’t care if all you’ve got to show

is nothin in your hand.

I miss your tender weary eyes,

your hungry travellin heart,

give all the gold in China

that we may never part.



Ain’t no colour in the mountains,

ain’t no colour in the sea,

ain’t no colour in the riverbed,

no colour for you and me.

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Banjo & Guitar: Jason Moffat,

Bass: Pedro Vidal, Drums & Percussion: Stephen Coates 10 + Choke Chain I burnt your letters,

I burnt your clothes,

I'd burn your bones

if they were still in my hands to hold



And I'm going boldly

with all the lies you told me

in a bag I'm gonna leave

by the side of the road.



Black dog you blame me

for your lifetime's pain,

but I am not your keeper,

and my love was not a choke chain



Don't want no comfort,

don't want no cheer,

don't want no devil

whisperin in my ear.



I'll keep my heart in my fist,

keep my axe in my hand,

if you come near me

I'll cut you down where you stand.



Black dog you blame me

for your lifetime's pain,

but I am not your keeper,

and my love was not a choke chain



Black dog you blame me

for your lifetime's pain,

but I am not your keeper,

and my love was not a choke chain

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Vocals: Chantal Hill 11 + Cinder Path Cinder path comes up to my door

grey as the town where I was born

baby I know what goodbye is for,

don’t want you comin round here no more.



Got a shack out back in the blasted pines,

little copper still make me my moonshine

when that runs dry I’ll just go on outside, get

high on the smell of the sulphur mine.



This timber house is my joy and pride,

came to me when my daddy died,

well you cheated, darlin, and you lied,

you’ll never have me for your bride…



My road swings round the Douglas firs,

I see your car comin round the curve,

well baby you got some goddamn nerve,

I am just another thing that you do not

deserve.

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Guitar: Jason Moffat, Bass: Pedro Vidal,

Drums & Percussion: Stephen Coates 12 + Johnny Davey's Blues Johnny Davey put on your blue suede shirt,

come to the Dairy Queen,

you're looking so fine tonight it hurts,

finest thing I ever seen



Got a job down south when winter is done,

down where it ain't too cold,

tonight we're gonna go see the rising sun,

tomorrow we will be old



If we climbed the highest mountain

and looked hard and far,

do you think we'd see the stars shining,

lonely as they are

in the windows of our homes,

the sky's dark blood against the land's bone?



Johnny I knew you man and child

back when the corn was high,

when the dog rose bloomed all lovely and wild

and the sun rode in the sky.



All the little songbirds in the trees

out on the county line,

they're singing a lament for you and me,

farewell to this northern pine



Johnny, remember the harvest dance

at the September fair?

I knew that it would be our last chance

and I wore ribbons in my hair.



You said, let's go down to the river,

winter is coming soon

and you lay me down in the heather

under the lantern moon

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Vocals: Chantal Hill, Guitar: Jason Moffat, Cello: Sheila Schat

The Recordings

Most of recordings were recorded at Hyde Street Studios in California with the exception of Ten Gallon Mile and Lovers' Reel which were recorded in London. Ian Brennan helped us make the album, stepping in as the producer for the USA recordings, making sure we didn't kill each other etc....he’s produced some fine albums, most notably Ramblin' Jack Elliott's album ‘I Stand Alone’ on Anti Records.



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All Tracks (P) & © 2009-2013 The Cedars (Hill/Moffat/Coates/Vidal)

Vocals: Chantal Hill

Guitar and Banjo: Jason Moffat

Bass: Pedro Vidal

Drums: Stephen Coates

Bass on Lovers' Reel: Jason Moffat

Drums on Lovers' Reel: Antony Gianinni

All songs Recorded at Hyde Street Studios, CA, USA except Lovers' Reel - The Cedars Riverside Studio, London, UK

Ten Gallon Mile - Denmark Street Studios, London, UK Recording Engineer USA: Gabriel Shepard

Recording Engineers UK: Jason Moffat (Lovers' Reel), Steve Ellis (Ten Gallon Mile)

All songs Mixed and Mastered by jason Moffat

All tracks Produced by Ian Brennan, except

Ten Gallon Mile and Lovers' Reel (The Cedars)











Singles Released "The Colour" (single) Track listing:

Side A: The Colour

Side B: Stomp Down Rider (live)



It's the first single from the upcoming "Little Copper Still" album!



Available on Limited Edition 7" vinyl from our

Also available as a download from Side A: The ColourSide B: Stomp Down Rider (live)It's the first single from the upcoming "Little Copper Still" album!Available on Limited Edition 7" vinyl from our Vinyl Shop (only 300 copies pressed);Also available as a download from iTunes , Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, Napster, IMVU, LimeWire Store, Nokia and more...



Compilations ft. The Cedars The Nebraska Sessions - A Tribute Featured Track:

Used Cars







Used Cars

Beginner's Guide To Hoedown Featured Track:

Extrication Row







Extrication Row

Divided By A Common Language Featured Track:

Phoenix







Phoenix

R2 (Rock 'N' Reel) Un-Herd Featured Track:

Blood and Wine





Blood and Wine

Truck 13 Festival compilation Featured Track:

Ten Gallon Mile





Ten Gallon Mile



Special guest appearances by members of The Cedars The Henry Brothers - Death Is Only A Dream

13. Satan's Jewel Crown





Featuring Chantal's vocals on:13. Satan's Jewel Crown

The Blazing Zoos - I'll Leave Quietly

01. I Didn't Have The Material (Before Now)

03. Kumbo Prision Blues

Featuring Jason's banjo twanging on:01. I Didn't Have The Material (Before Now)03. Kumbo Prision Blues



