Thursday, May 10th, 2012
@ Klub Monika (665 Myrtle Avenue, Albany, NY)
7:30 PM /// $5
KOJI (recording part of Spring Songs V. 2)
w/ CALEB LIONHEART (acoustic), STEVE LAYMAN, ORPHAN LEGS, and CARL DANIELS
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
@ Hudson River Coffee House (227 Quail Street, Albany, NY)
8:00 PM /// $5
STATE CHAMPS (Pure Noise Records)
CALEB LIONHEART
DAYBREAKER (Pure Noise Records)
THE STEREO STATE (Creator-Destructor Records)
In the last year and a half or so, I (Tony) have been playing a lot more shows as Caleb Lionheart acoustic. This is partly out of necessity, as bands that deserve good shows in our area ask for help too frequently for us to play every show, and partly out of a desire to play all the songs we’ve written as a band as well as different arrangements of songs we play as a full electric outfit. Unfortunately, I am not as prolific a song-writer as I’d like to be and our acoustic set sometimes runs short of original material.
For a time, when Caleb Lionheart material that I knew how to play (well) would begin to dwindle, I’d simply pick a Saves The Day song and play that. Since our worship of STD’s first three LPs and acoustic EP is sometimes all too blatant and since almost every college student that attended highschool in the late 90s and early 2000s knows at least one of their songs, this has been a recipe for positive crowd participation. A winning cop-out if you will, but a cop-out none-the-less.
I have compiled a short list of less-than-popular songs (save Tracy Chapman) that I’ve also covered in that time period that garnered less emotional a response. As everyone, including myself, has grown tired of the “Pop Punk Band Covering Saves The Day” routine, I’ve decided to crowd-source the decision of which song I should cover to the people:
Kind of Like Spitting - Aubergine (see above)
Rocky Votolato - The Light and the Sound
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
The Good Life - Album of the Year
These are the songs I know how to play already and could cover again, but I’m also privy to write-in ballots as well, so if you’d like to hear us cover a different song acoustic I am also open to such suggestions.
Then again, I could always just play Caleb songs. The choice is yours (well, ultimately, ours). Thanks.
In the next month or so we should be announcing details for our upcoming Split 7” (who we’re sharing the wax with, what label it will be out on, pressing info, etc.). It will feature two songs from us, and two songs from another great band, and honestly, I can’t wait for you to hear them.
The thing is, we recorded another song from that session that won’t make it on the record. The songs that will be featured on the 7” are two of the fastest and most abrasive, as well as the slowest and most melodic songs we’ve ever written. This third song, featured above, is an acoustic song called “We’re Rooted Here and You Can’t Pull Us Up.” I wrote it over a series of weeks in 2009, and our old guitarist Kris Wildermuth added a second guitar part over the bridge while recording last February.
It references a trip I made to Austin, TX for New Years two years ago, “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, an Anthology of Essays on Antebellum Slave History, a Flag used during the War for Texas Independence, and a patch of grey hair that has appeared in the temple next to my right eye. Check it out, tell your friends, keep an ear to the ground for details on our split.
For Lyrics: http://caleblionheart.tumblr.com/lyrics/unreleased
