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| One, One and then Four (lyrics) | |
| This song tells the story of two brothers from Kentucky | |
| who read a "How To" book and become country music stars. | |
| Gambler (lyrics) | |
| Stu wrote Gambler just before the beginning of time. It was | |
| originally titled Yesterday Destruction Crew, but people | |
| kept requesting Gambler and we want to give the people | |
| what they want! | |
| Doctor (lyrics) | |
| Mike wrote this song as a freshman in high school for a class project. | |
| Every Day (lyrics) | |
| This tune, along with Cool Alien began the genre we call | |
| "Hillbilly Reggae." | |
| Cool Alien (lyrics) | |
| The song is one of Mike's most popular tunes. It was written in | |
| 1989 with a Peavy Patriot bass guitar and a digital delay pedal. | |
| Ignore This Track | |
| A technical glitch caused an unusable track number 6 | |
| on one of the demos for Fat Mix. Mike labeled the | |
| bad track Ignore This Track. Since we used that | |
| demo for the final track order we had to put something | |
| there ;o) | |
| Bluebirds and Pickles (lyrics) | |
| Once upon a time, we took ourselves quite seriously and | |
| attempted to write a song about how much we like teachers | |
| and how they don't get the respect and rewards they deserve. | |
| After a long, frustrating, uninspired time Mike said, "All the | |
| words should be bluebirds and pickles." Being a paragon of | |
| reason, Stu responded: "That's silly. No one wants to listen | |
| to a song that's only bluebirds and pickles! It should be | |
| bluebirds and pickles and stuff!" | |
| Homegrown (lyrics) | |
| A song about traditional values. (That's our story, and | |
| we're sticking with it!) | |
| Hold On (lyrics) | |
| During an earlier time in our musical career, the lyrics were | |
| re-written to pitch Dodge trucks. Being about trucks, that | |
| version never flew. (Maybe it should have been Cessna.) | |
| Fat Mix | |
| This killer Kentucky Jam shows Mike's wizardry as a loop god! | |
| We played and sang the parts, but never in the order you hear | |
| them on the CD. It began life as an entry in a music contest. | |
| We liked the end product so much, it's the title track! | |
| Deciduous Person (lyrics) | |
| Stu wrote Deciduous Person while on the Psychiatric ward | |
| of a Naval hospital for evaluation. There's no word on the | |
| outcome of the evaluation, but Stu swears the song was inspired | |
| by the Navy psychiatrist sitting on his desk and playing banjo on | |
| their first meeting. | |
| I'm So Wild About You (lyrics) | |
| Written by Stu for his friend Rachel. She asked how he wrote | |
| songs and this was his demonstration. | |
| iGYM (lyrics) | |
| The name iGYM comes from the first letter of the first word | |
| in each verse: I, Girl, You, Man. It was written at the end of | |
| a long and grueling session in a storage room Mike and Stu | |
| once used as a studio. | |
| Bygone Days (lyrics) | |
| The recording on Fat Mix is the first time Stu sang this song | |
| all the way through. It also has the distinction of being the only | |
| song written expressly for Fat Mix. | |