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Edge of the World EP

by Jenee Halstead

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1.
Shovel 03:45
But some return I struck the match I watched you burn Ashes to ashes, dust to dirt Oh I won't put the shovel down Some love cures you Some love's cursed I tried to tell you You never learned Every bad man gets his turn Oh won't put the shovel down I only wanna hear the wind Whipping through the trees I only wanna see nothing Where you used to be I wanna dance under dark skies Set my spirit free Chorus: So I won't put the shovel down Till you're six feet under the cold hard ground No I won't put the shovel down Some love blazes Some love bleeds Some love wrap around So you can't breathe Oh Won't Put the Shovel down Some ghosts rattle Some ghosts scream you sound just like a human being The closer I get, the less I see Oh I won't put the shovel down I only want to hear the wind Whippin' through the trees I only wanna see nothing Where you used to be I wanna dance under dark skies Set my spirit free So I won't put the shovel down Till you're six feet under the cold hard ground No I won't put the shovel down Till you're six feet under the cold hard ground Some dead lay down Till you're six feet under the cold hard ground
2.
Taste Me 03:13
Lover you can take me Pierce my heart, and make me your own Make me whole Lover pull me onto you My skin and lips belong to you My love, You’re in my blood For you I will soften For you I am calling Taste me Taste me I’m what you need Lover, I will bloom for you Lay back and give in to you Whisper secrets only you would know For you I will soften For you I am calling Taste me Taste me Taste the salt of my desire Taste me Taste me Taste me Taste me I’m what you need
3.
Juarez 05:13
Crossed the San Fernando Valley Thinking I could forget my past Drove through the night time Under a veil of pitch black With a trunk full of treasure and bandejos all around I went into the cemetery And I burned one down So don’t, don’t go down to Juarez I know you need a dollar bad But please don’t, don’t go down to Juarez Your love was the best thing I had There’s no such thing as the future I watched my car burn from the interstate My red GM all aglow Nothing left but the license plate And I saw it all, loud and clear If your gonna cross the border There’s no way out of here So don’t, don’t go down to Juarez I know you need a dollar bad But please don’t, don’t go down to Juarez Your love was the best thing I had
4.
She gave me light I could understand She noticed I was always alone She gave me words I would not understand She noticed I was on my own The life I bore into my hands I thought i’d been seen and known Oh I’d been known, I’d been known I’d been known, I’d been known But I was a wisp An invisible slip touched by the meadowlark full of moon bowing and swaying creatures swimming through me a hollow husk waiting to be filled And I would wait there for years I would wait there for years A plea to God only knows God only knows what what I pushed toward the edge Away from the others in agony, I filled my cup At the edge of world Oh I carried thing inside me Inside me it grew And I am not sure of this love The only love I knew To heavy bear It became too heavy to carry So I buried it in a shoe box For years to come For years to come I knew I was trouble Sleeping with ghosts Stretching out on the sheets Writhing my toes my hips pressed into the mat I was with an invisible man An invisible man
5.
Sophia 03:39
Through the mud the crashing world came marching into play The sacred heart, the sacred stain, the queen has fallen Sophia Neath your tree of sin Sister, let me in Sophia Hear my silent prayer Are you in there? The devil made material mocking every step I drank this glass of blues and whispered my despair For Sophia Covered in the dark Can you hear my heart? Sophia Buried in the deep Can you feel me? Sundays we visit the ashes I wish to turn back time She sits across from me smiling, points two fingers towards the sky Sophia Empress of the spark Take back your crown of stars Sophia You are the light I am your light

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"On 'Edge Of The World' she largely maintains the indie-americana nature of her previous release but swaps the avant-garde side of it for a much more accessible, rich, moody and beautifully produced sound. Singing better than ever, Halstead impresses from beginning to end with five glorious songs that are bold (opener Shovel with its great refrain: I won’t put the shovel down, ‘til you’re six feet under the cold, hard ground), sexy (Taste Me), sensual (the title track), or just plain deeply moving (the piano ballad Sophia). If there is one drawback to Edge Of The World it’s that it’s only an ep, although you have to search really hard to find a record this year that gives you five such marvelous songs one after another." Eric van Domburg Scipio

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released June 22, 2015

Produced by Sean McLaughlin

Written by:

Shovel ­ Jess Tardy

Juarez ­ Jenee Halstead, Sean McLaughlin

Taste Me ­ Jenee Halstead, Susan Cattaneo

Edge of the World ­ Jenee Halstead

Sophia ­ Jenee Halstead, Susan Cattaneo

Players:

Jeff Charland ­ upright bass

Liz Debias ­ piano, Hammond organ

Jenee Halstead ­ voice, acoustic guitar

Hugh McGowan ­ acoustic, electric guitars

Sean McLaughlin ­ electric bass

Karen Sarkisian ­ pedal steel

Tony Savarino ­ electric guitars, Sitar

Eva Walsh ­ violin, viola

Jonah Sacks ­ cello

Mark Lipman ­ vocals

Olinde Mandell ­ vocals

String arrangements by Chris Barrett

Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA

Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

Art Direction by Trey Phillips

Photograph by Amanda Ambrose

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Jenee Halstead Phoenix, Arizona

"She, like Neko Case before her, mines allegories and fables for her songs, but Halstead isn't a cyclone. She floats and observes, almost achieving a spectral presence on her own songs." Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide

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