LONELY MAMA 01 - Bonus Link
Early access to forthcoming single for paid subscribers! Plus, Thing Festival!
BREAKING NEWS: Thing Festival just announced its 2024 lineup today. I’m playing on the mainstage on Friday, August 9! They relocated the festival this year. The three-day extravaganza will take place at Remlinger Farms near Carnation, WA. Info HERE.
Yesterday was the New Moon. Around here, the New Moon means new music! This time, a fully realized track called “Lonely Mama.”
Paid subscribers can stream or download—in hi-res if that’s your thing—by clicking the link beyond the paywall below.
A 45 rpm 7” vinyl single will be released on 3/29/24 on Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready’s HockyTalkter Records. The track will also be available digitally.
Today is my birthday and it’s no coincidence that I would debut a song where I’m singing to the woman who brought me into the world all those years ago. This post from January 19, 2024, explains how my birth mother, Barb, passed away just months before I attempted to make contact with her. That’s the topic of “Lonely Mama.”
Here are the lyrics:
Lonely mama, lonely mama
How I wish I could have known ya
Lonely mama, lonely mama
How I wish I could have known ya
We’d be twirling around in the Summer sun
Freak flags flown high to Scarlet Begonias
Lonely mama, lonely mama
Still it makes me cry
Lonely mama, lonely mama
Still it makes me cry
Never knowing if you held me
Before you said goodbye
Once upon a time in a fairy tale
A mother and child reunion
Could nothing ever be as heavenly a dream?
I’ve had it many times
I’ve had it many times this dream
Lonely mama, lonely mama
I sing this one for you
Lonely mama, lonely mama
I sing this one for you
Nothing more than a simple cowboy tune
I’m afraid that’s about the best that I can do
Lonely mama, lonely mama
I play it to the end
Lonely mama, lonely mama
I play it to the end
The verse where I believe in heaven above
And you and I will be reunited
The verse where I believe in heaven above
And you and I will be
You and I will be reunited
I’ll have more to say about the writing and recording of “Lonely Mama” in future posts. And I’ll share more about my journey as an adoptee further on down the road.
For now, paid subscribers, please enjoy this tune. Everyone else will have to wait until the single comes out on 3/29/24.
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