Eddy Dyer: Recent Episodes
Eddy Dyer
Lowell, Massachusetts songsmith Eddy Dyer has released "Further From The Shore", a 20 year compilation of studio recordings. Prior to reinventing himself as a live musician in the mid-2010's, the studio was Dyer's main instrument ~ put on some headphones and see why this was called "amazing music" by Marc Kramer, Rolling Stone Producer Of The Year 1995.
Hard to say just where today the watcher hides, leaves without a trace or understand the hanging hand behind the pull you feel on the way you color certain space
Have you seen the streets, serene before the morning drops down shards of glass and strands of light?
Take the time to read the rhyme that's written on the west wall; still does hollow sing the night?
"Stars sigh for the hope that's hiding, cloaked in grey noon; so why does the light, inviting, leave so soon?" Sang the monkey to the moon.
Firm or frail, the seraph sails through fairy tales, never a care for where or how. Reason rides the narrow tides on shallow sides of dark dreams, wondering where she wanders now
And I look upon these strands of dawn that fall down on my wood floor and beg the shadow not to stay.
Bright to blue, the evening's hue comes into view and drops down; soon the answers dance away.
"Stars sigh for the hope that's hiding, cloaked in grey noon; so why does the light, inviting, leave so soon?" Sang the monkey to the moon.
(Dyer) Van Lawton - lead vocals, bass guitar Brad Clarke - drums Bonnie Rovics - flute Edward Newton - guitars Derek O'Sullivan - percussion, backing vocals Eddy Dyer - guitars, backing vocals with Natasha Busse - vocals
produced by Jeff Hall and Eddy Dyer
(Dyer)
The beating of a dragon's wings cast a balmy sigh on all bright things
The next extinction knows my name I'm creating magic, just the same
and it's real, do you see?
Sing we now our dragonsong dance awake the souls we damned too long
One jeweled, bedazzled note in flight call the dragon moving toward the light
and it's real, do you see?
Something crawls back into something else and with no sound it all begins again The dragon swallows his own tail and soon noone remembers it had ever been but it's real, do you see?
Sing we now our dragonsong dance awake our hearts before we're gone
The stones no longer wish to be walls now the beggars soar and empires fall
and it's real, do you see?
(Dyer) Eddy Dyer - acoustic guitar, vocals
produced by James Lindenschmidt www.craftedrecordings.com
painting by Che Arrajj
from "Teardrops Made Of Melted Crayon" 2007 ~
That night when you laid down beside me, when that silent roar finally slowed into song, I looked around and I wondered, When it's all been said, have I listened too long?
Candlelight eyes in the doorway lingered alone and, at last, looked away Heaven is crawling with hunters, masked by the side of the road leading onto the day.
And I could have stayed there forever, waiting for word when no message arrived; but statues of Somebody's Mother caught my reflection just right where the shadows had lied.
New, I wait hollow in dreamland, sad for this song but glad for the Moon and I look around and I wonder, when it's all been said, have I spoken too soon?
(c)eddy dyer 2007 Brad Clarke - drums Van Lawton - bass Katt Hernandez - violin Edward Newton - 12 string guitar Derek O'Sullivan - percussion, backing vocals Eddy Dyer - 6 string acoustic guitar, mandolin