May 2022: “Tongue Canyon Road” Release
post originally published may 5, 2022
Hold on to your handlebars, buckle your helmets, feel the wind in your teeth, we're approaching uncharted Rock N Roll territory!
The third grade at Tongue River Elementary in WY were first to hear an early rendition of Tongue Canyon Road. As the visiting artist, I asked for ideas on where the song should go. Silence. Then one brave kid raised his hand to offer, “I feel seen”...perhaps the best reception a songwriter can ask for.
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Outtakes from the "The Hangar" studio day 2.
Tongue Canyon Road Liner Notes
Jenner Fox - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Aaron Guest - Piano, Drums, Organ
Jeremy Elliot - Electric Guitar
Hans Bilger - Bass
R.O Shapiro - Background Vocals
Natalie Akers - Piano
Produced by Keith Banning and Jenner Fox
Engineered by Keith Banning
Mastered by David Glasser
Art by David Mcdougall (Dayton, WY)
Design by Michael Taylor
Lyrics
I like to ride my bicycle at night
When the streets are dark and cold
Down the Tongue Canyon Road
And I look in all the windows
At the people passing time and getting old
In the television glow
Dad put us on training wheels
In the Church parking lot
And I got my first two wheeler and he said, that’s how freedom feels
But stay on the sidewalks
And we’d ride everyday to school
In a pack of five or six
And we’d see who could go no handed
For the longest
I like to ride my bicycle at night
When the streets are dark and cold
Down the Tongue Canyon Road
And I look in all the windows
At the people passing time and getting old
In the television glow
Well I left and loved and moved around
Now I’ve got a kid and a truck and we’re coming back to town
Where the streets are all the same
And I know the trees by name
And I used to ride passed Annie’s house
Imagine of what I’d do if she came out
Fix my hair, glide real slow
Maybe she’d be at the window
I remember hoping Dad was asleep when I got home
Maybe there’d be something left on the stove
And in the morning light, he’d ask me where’d I’d been all night
I’d stand up straight, talk real low
Tell him I’d been on my bicycle
I like to ride my bicycle at night
When the streets are dark and cold
Down the Tongue Canyon Road
And I look in all the windows
At the people passing time and getting old
In the television glow
A beloved quote:
"All art is about this truth that is almost invisible at other times when we're less aware, locked in the drudgery of our day to day existences, until art breaks through and points it out to us. Sometimes I think of it as a search for low hanging fruit, even though I know that's not quite the right simile. It's something people walk by all the time, something so ingrained in our environment that it's become invisible, something so obvious nobody sees it anymore. But then someone figures out how to say what it is, or how to see it, and every else says, "Of course, why didn't I say that, that's exactly right, I always knew that was there," Or "that's exactly how I feel." – Jeff Tweedy in "How To Write One Song."