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Valleyheart

by Justin Rutledge

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    2013 JUNO-award winning Valleyheart on CD includes lyrics book with gorgeous photography & layout by Christine Flynn (www.lovethedesign.com)

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1.
Amen America 04:36
Little darling, I’m along for the ride You’re the one I want to be quiet beside Rest your head until you dream of a rhyme So many sparrows, so little time You were born on such a beautiful night You were always such a beautiful child I have seen you wrapped in curtains of light In the grasses, saddened and wild Can you see it? Is it made of gold? Amen America
2.
Look at a picture of you on a horse With a bridle your father bought on a trip to Vermont in the fall Autumn is staring you down, red and brown By the mane of a dying elm And the look on your face says it all Look at a picture of you, lucky lad In a jacket your father had when he fought in the war on TV Summer is wearing you down like a crown Like the wind on a weathervane As you stand in the shade like a tree Has anyone seen a king or a queen? Did they look anything like you or me? Look at a picture of you in a crowd Where your memories are not allowed Just the weight of the light on the leaves Four lean hounds in a row Where in the world did you go?
3.
Getting Away 05:06
I tripped on the steps of the Spanish stairs Cursing your beauty and gasping for air You’ve got a way of getting away from me Through vineyards and fountains, mountains of miles Through decades of traffic, turnstiles You’ve got a way of getting away from me Send me a postcard, drop me a line Why are you so hard to find? You’re right here beside me You’re sleeping beside me But why are you so hard to find? From Russia with love From Paris with pain From New York with roses From London with rain You’ve got a way of getting away from me
4.
I think we’re out of the woods I think we’re out of the woods for good I think that we should be out of the woods I think you’re out of your head I think you’re out of your head, she said From the edge of the bed We should get out of the way We should get out of the way, you say Did you suddenly say Get out of the way? Is it true what has happened to you? You were the valley below You were the weight of the snow You were the valley below You were the weight of the snow
5.
Travel Light 02:58
Travel light Near or far Day or night I’m not saying I’m leaving I’m just saying I might Travel light
6.
Sometimes I find that I get too sentimental when I think of you Sometimes it helps to play some heavy heavy metal But somehow heavy metal makes me think of you too I met you on a road of corduroy and maple and I sang to you Early one morning drinking Kapuskasing coffee and I sang to you All the roads are washed out in the town But the posterboys of North America are still around All the roads are six feet underground But god bless the posterboys of North America for sticking around Sometimes I find that I get too sentimental when I think of you Early one morning drinking Kapuskasing coffee I had your arms around me as I sang to you Sometimes it helps to play some heavy heavy metal Sometimes it helps to drink some Kapuskasing coffee
7.
I’ve got a plan to sing you back home To strike up the band and love you alone Silver the stars Golden the net Your mind is a book Your body a page Your fingers are pools Your beauty a cage I carry you home When after the rains The hemlocks are wet Heavy you weight on my mind Like a prose that is frozen with rhyme I’ve got a plan—whatever it takes I’ll put on the moves—I’ll put on the brakes The curtains are drawn The table is set Hey Hold on I’m not through with you yet
8.
Downtown 03:57
The dog it bites and the bee it stings But Elvis never worried about these kinds of things Your parents don’t know that you’re in a band But that’s ok because they’d never understand why you want to live downtown Key Largo was playing at the Revue Cinema But she never showed up, so you hit the bar And you hit it hard It’s one for the cradle Two for the crow Three for the rain Four for the radio
9.
Intro 00:24
10.
Heather in the pines Heather on the outskirts of my mind Heather in the way I’m whistling Sally In the Garden My tall and bonny bride Heather in the pines Heather in these words I underline Heather in the hostile winter In the way the daylight shivers Heather in the pines Heather in these photographs I find Heather in the stubborn seasons In these wild abandoned mornings I wish I were a man that only roses understand Underneath your window Underneath your window I wish I were a man killing time with crayons in my hand Underneath your window Underneath your window

about

2013 JUNO-winning "Valleyheart", Justin Rutledge’s fifth studio album, is “a remarkably spacious and airy affair, one that allows the songs to breathe inside of the instrumentation, with each exhale clear and sharp”, says the Calgary Herald.

“Rich musical textures, plaintive yet assured vocals and eloquent, poetic lyrics place Rutledge a cut above his peers”
– Exclaim!

The quiet songwriter returns to his roots with a stately collection of spacious songs featuring Rutledge’s trademark poetic lyrics. “I wanted to write songs the way I look at old photographs,” the singer says. “Valleyheart is, at the core, an album about translating memory.”

Valleyheart was recorded in Toronto with Rutledge’s veteran backing band, featuring his best friend Bazil Donovan (Blue Rodeo) on bass, and mixed in Los Angeles by Dan Burns (Puscifer, Chuck Prophet). Rutledge has increasingly been spending more time in California, writing and recording with his band, Early Winters. “Travel is a major theme on Valleyheart,” says Rutledge. “It is perhaps my most ‘Canadian’ album to date, even though it is heavily influenced by California.

credits

released February 13, 2013

David Baxter – Electric guitar
Burke Carroll – Pedal steel, Weissenborne, national guitar
Kendel Carson – Fiddle
Bazil Donovan – Bass, acoustic guitar on Intro
Blake Manning – Drums, percussion
Steve O’Connor – Piano, Rhodes, organ, accordion
Carina Round – Voice
Justin Rutledge – Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, harmonica
with
Bryden Baird – Horns
Andrew Collins – Mandolin
Aidan Hawken – Voice
Brian Kobayakowa – Bowed bass
Amoy Levy – Choir
Ciceal Levy – Choir
Adrienne McKenzie – Choir
Doug Paisley – Electric guitar on "Four Lean Hounds"

Produced by Justin Rutledge
Recorded by Tim Vesely at The Woodshed, Toronto
Additional recording by James Paul at The Rogue, Toronto, and by
Dan Burns at Valleyheart Recording, Sherman Oaks, California
Mixed by Dan Burns at Valleyheart Recording, Sherman Oaks, California
Mastered by Joao Carvalho
All songs ©Justin Rutledge 2013
EMI Blackwood Music (Canada) Ltd. / Junction Morning Publishing
Except Amen America and Through With You by JR and Bazil Donovan
(SOCAN) Intro by Bazil Donovan (SOCAN)

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Justin Rutledge Toronto, Ontario

Ten albums in, JUNO Award-winning songwriter Justin Rutledge could easily rest on his reputation, having accumulated the sort of daunting body of work upon which one could easily coast. Instead, on "Something Easy", Rutledge made things difficult for himself, deciding to write, record, and produce the poised, subtly powerful set at home. With one, then two, bouncing baby boys underfoot. ... more

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