tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:/blogs/news-bbcc2fdb-2937-49fe-9ebc-a957d2bd0af6?p=2News2023-10-06T06:19:24-05:00Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)falsetag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/72837242023-10-06T06:19:24-05:002023-10-16T09:54:50-05:00MUG album out Oct 6 2023<p>From the desk of <a class="no-pjax" href="https://bigstirrecords.com/dolph-chaney" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Big Stir Records</a></p><div class="album-info" style='-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(62, 63, 76);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(145, 145, 145);font-family:"Fira Sans", sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;overflow:hidden;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;'>
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<p>Big Stir Records is extraordinarily proud to bring you the all-new album MUG by rising Chicagoland indie-pop troubadour DOLPH CHANEY. The thirteen-song collection – the followup to the 2021 indie-radio favorite THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY and his third for BSR – sees release on CD and all streaming platforms October 6 (<a class="no-pjax" href="https://orcd.co/dolphchaney-mug">https://orcd.co/dolphchaney-mug</a>). Featuring this year's hit single “Mr. Eli” and its beguiling followup “Cool In The Sunshine,” MUG continues Chaney's rewarding collaboration with ace producer NICK BERTLING, whose sonic acumen made THIS IS... such an engrossing listen. But where its predecessor saw Chaney and Bertling mining a rich back catalog of road-tested originals, MUG's fresh material presents a portrait of where Dolph Chaney is today, and one sure to thrill his growing fanbase on the global pop-rock scene.</p>
<p>What radiates off of MUG from its opening cascade of ringing, overdriven guitar is exactly what's made DOLPH CHANEY such a mainstay of the indie pop world so quickly: the man and his music are quite simply, irresistibly, charming. Dolph himself might bristle at that reductive description, and in fact he spends much of the opening track (the blazing college rock-fueled “Nice”) doing just that. But he does so with the rare warmth, humor and humanity that informs all of the songs here. Consider his oft-cited, eclectic list of primary influences, including Harry Nilsson, Bob Mould and Peter Gabriel, and Dolph's uncanny ability to triangulate between the most openhearted moments of each, arriving at a voice and identity that's uniquely, unmistakably his own.</p>
<p>Even when the guitars are churning and the vocal cords approaching maximum rawness – which is often, with Cheap Trick-meets-Guided By Voices crunch being a key tenet of Chaney and Bertling's soundscapes -- we're never far from a moment of tenderness, humor or empathy that brings us back to the center of Dolph's world. It could be the loping piano of the slyly self-deprecating “Bad Bet,” the utterly unique relationship portrait underpinning the Split Enz-like “Ice Cream Embers” or the boisterous, radio-ready power pop of “Californiagain” chronicling his raving-success 2021 West Coast solo tour. It could be something darker, like the resignation of the e-bow-driven, shoegaze-inflected “Good Luck With All That,” or more wounded, like the ultimately cathartic “Critic (The Mirror).” But it's always there, always striking, and always framed by the catchiest of melodies and sympathetic, often surprising, production touches.</p>
<p>On MUG, Chaney celebrates not only road life but also home life (including feline paean “Mr. Eli” and a couple of actual straightforward love songs in “Cool In The Sunshine” and “Love Around You”) and most of all his inner life. There is a late-album arc wherein Dolph tackles longstanding struggles with increasing grace, confidence, and even joy in the end, from the yearning hard rock of “Only Hope” through the jangling recovery anthem “The First Time Back” that closes the album. And while this is nothing new to his work, it’s never been this accessible and direct, and it's never been easier to hear what makes Dolph's work so special: it's unforced, unflinchingly honest, big-hearted whether that heart's nosediving or soaring, and always inviting. And that's the very definition of charm.</p>
<p>MUG is the culmination of four extraordinary years for Dolph Chaney. It can properly be considered the natural third part to the trilogy commenced when he burst to prominence on the global indie-pop scene with his 2020 Big Stir Records bow REBUILDING PERMIT, whose release date linked it almost inextricably with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. That tragedy of timing, leavened by Chaney's extraordinary ability to rise to the challenge as a beacon of hope through creativity and community, made for an auspicious debut to an audience hungry for just what he had to offer. In truth, Dolph had been self-releasing low key, lo-fi recordings since his teen years in the late '80s, consistently delivering a unique mix of power-pop whimsy and folkie earnestness, with big, warm, sweet, funny and poignant pop songs -- ingeniously written, exuberantly performed. But at a singularly befuddling cultural moment, the songs on REBUILDING PERMIT simply clicked, and Dolph was on to bigger things.</p>
<p>Before the year was out, Dolph had been named Artist Of The Year by respected Internet station Woody Radio among numerous other honors that would be the envy of many an emerging artist. But the real rewards for Chaney were the embrace of a collaborative community of likeminded musicians, and above all the connection with producer/drummer/multi-hyphenate Nick Bertling, with whom he was recording his next record THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY before most of the pop scene had caught its breath. If REBUILDING had been a watershed, THIS IS... proved a genuine breakthrough, acclaimed via rave reviews in The Big Takeover, babysue and Louder Than War. Venerable Chicago radio outlets responded: there was regular airplay on WNUR-FM, WLUW-FM and CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM (where Dolph scored a Top 10 chart placement). Standout single “My Good Twin” earned a Song Of The Year honor from Pop-A-Looza and received multiple spins on SiriusXM 's Little Steven's Underground Garage via Rodney Bingenheimer and Bill Kelly.</p>
<p>The synergy with Bertling proved more than potent enough to repeat, and Chaney found himself brewing up the new set of tunes that are now to be served up on MUG. With the percolation complete, the new tunes are hitting the radio and Dolph is, for the first time this century, leading a full band: DOLPH CHANEY & THE PHINS have booked a solid schedule of gigs in and around Chicago to present the new songs in all their blazing glory, with an eye toward wider touring in the coming year. It's clear that MUG is not just a culmination, but a brand new jumping-off point, and if recent years have proved anything about DOLPH CHANEY, it's that he'll rise to any challenge with rare determination, aplomb, and, yes, abundant charm. Take a swig from DOLPH CHANEY's MUG today, and keep it handy for refills.</p>
</div></div></div>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/72837152023-10-06T06:13:55-05:002023-10-06T06:13:56-05:00Dolph Chaney and the Phins - live!<p>Formed summer 2022, Dolph Chaney and the Phins have spent the past year storming stages across Chicagoland. More Phins gigs coming in 2024!</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/66241332021-05-07T08:11:56-05:002021-05-07T08:11:56-05:00INFINITY DOGS remaster #BandcampFriday<p>Psst hey - I have a #BandcampFriday goodie for you... A spiffy new remaster of INFINITY DOGS, my 1994 acoustic album! </p>
<p>https://dolphchaney.bandcamp.com/album/infinity-dogs-1994-2021-remaster </p>
<p>INFINITY DOGS was recorded in one session - no overdubs on May 9, 1994. Justin Crane hosted us after hours at (the much missed) KTRU FM Studio at Rice University and recorded the session. The divine Judi Brown was my duet partner on 3 songs, and we had guest cellist Eric Mellenbruch grace the track "Balm In Gilead." My production partner from the REBUILDING PERMIT album - Milk Arnold - did the new remastering this spring, and the results sparkle! </p>
<p>There are 17 songs total, including early versions of "Meaningless" and "Under The Overpass" (which appear fully fleshed out on this year's THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY, still available at https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-dolph-chaney in case you haven't yet grabbed it). </p>
<p>Thanks for considering picking it up, and please support the independent music you love!</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/65235122021-01-17T16:43:29-06:002021-01-17T16:55:11-06:00"Now I Am A Man" out Jan 22 2021; first single from THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY<p>BIG STIR RECORDS SINGLES SERIES is proud to announce single no. 113, “Now I Am A Man” by Dolph Chaney, for January 22nd release via the Big Stir Records Bandcamp --</p>
<p><a contents=" https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/now-i-am-a-man-2021-big-stir-single-no-113" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/now-i-am-a-man-2021-big-stir-single-no-113" target="_blank">https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/now-i-am-a-man-2021-big-stir-single-no-113</a></p>
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<p>This was the first song tackled in recording sessions for the upcoming album “This Is Dolph Chaney” (out February 20th on Big Stir Records) - and wears a smirkingly self-deprecating statement of uncertain purpose, liberated from its rudimentary original version on Chaney’s solo album “Gumshoe Koala”. For the new version, producer/instrumentalist Nick Bertling outfits this new "Man" in a sharp-dressed band sound, given a lift by his whirring lead guitar break and set off to perfection by his Gretchen's Wheel compatriot Lindsay Murray's impeccable backing vocal. </p>
<p>This Chicagoland artist has been songwriting and record-making for a long while, but in 2020 (through all of its challenges), Dolph took an invitation to perform a weekly livestream radio webcast and ran with it. The shows have not only brought Dolph new listeners and have given the much-needed opportunity to interact, but as Chaney puts it, “I had the chance to push myself, to try things with my guitar and voice I hadn’t thought I could pull off. I was blessed to have all of that keeping me engaged and sharp at such a bewildering time.” Now, we find him as 2020 Artist Of The Year by Woody Radio, with the “Rebuilding Permit” album featured in the year's-best list at Dagger Zine and playlists aplenty. </p>
<p>We couldn’t be more excited to see Dolph Chaney return with something old, new, and a little blue - but all his own - for 2021. Join us on this journey and follow Dolph Chaney at: </p>
<p>www.facebook.com/dolphchaneymusic <br>www.instagram.com/dolphchaney/ <br>www.twitter.com/dolphchaney</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/62514712020-03-16T17:40:29-05:002020-03-16T17:53:20-05:00REBUILDING PERMIT radio play (Mar 1-15 2020)<p>The first half of March saw a great deal of pre-release radio play for tracks from <a contents="REBUILDING PERMIT" data-link-label="Rebuilding Permit" data-link-type="page" href="/rebuilding-permit" target="_blank">REBUILDING PERMIT</a> and its attendant singles! Here's a rundown -- please do yourself a favor and avail yourself of these excellent shows regularly!</p>
<ul> <li> <p>Jim Prell, The Music Authority (<a contents="fastcast4u.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://usa7.fastcast4u.com:2199/start/jamprell" target="_blank">fastcast4u.com</a> / <a contents="transistor.fm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.themusicauthority.transistor.fm" target="_blank">transistor.fm</a>), Mondays 7-10am Eastern</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="3/2/20" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://themusicauthority.transistor.fm/223" target="_blank">3/2/20</a> - "<a contents="If I Write It Down" data-link-label="If I Write It Down" data-link-type="page" href="/if-i-write-it-down" target="_blank">If I Write It Down</a>" / "<a contents="The Handling" data-link-label="The Handling" data-link-type="page" href="/the-handling" target="_blank">The Handling</a>" / "Automatic Caution Door" (all world premieres)</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Mike DeAngelis, THERE ONCE WAS A NOTE on BOOM Radio (South Carolina / <a contents="boomradio.podbean.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://boomradio.podbean.com" target="_blank">boomradio.podbean.com</a>), Thursdays 8-10pm Eastern</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="There Once Was A Note 3/5/20" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-pyhif-d55b1c" target="_blank">There Once Was A Note 3/5/20</a> - "<a contents="A Good Road Is Hard To Find" data-link-label="A Good Road Is Hard To Find" data-link-type="page" href="/a-good-road-is-hard-to-find" target="_blank">A Good Road Is Hard To Find</a>"</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Conrad Callan, CONRADIO (County Kerry, Ireland / <a contents="mixlr.com/conradio" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://mixlr.com/conradio" target="_blank">mixlr.com/conradio</a>), Wednesdays 4-7pm Eastern</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="ConRadio 3/5/20" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://mixlr.com/conradio/showreel/conradio-on-mixlr-306/" target="_blank">ConRadio 3/5/20</a> - "<a contents="The Handling" data-link-label="The Handling" data-link-type="page" href="/the-handling" target="_blank">The Handling</a>" / "Automatic Caution Door" / "I Am The B-Side"</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Chip Saam, <a contents="Indie Pop Takeout" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.whfr.fm/station/programs/light-underground-indie-pop-takeout" target="_blank">Indie Pop Takeout</a> on 89.3 WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI / <a contents="whfr.fm" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.whfr.fm/" target="_blank">whfr.fm</a>), Saturdays 10am-1pm Eastern</p>
<ul> <li>3/7/20 - "<a contents="The Handling" data-link-label="The Handling" data-link-type="page" href="/the-handling" target="_blank">The Handling</a>"</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Mitch and Mark, <a contents="MITCH AND MARK LIVE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://neighborhoodweeklyradio.com/shows/mitch-and-mark-live/" target="_blank">MITCH AND MARK LIVE</a> on Neighborhood Weekly Radio (<a contents="neighborhoodweeklyradio.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://neighborhoodweeklyradio.com/" target="_blank">neighborhoodweeklyradio.com</a> / <a contents="live365.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://player.live365.com/a93317" target="_blank">live365.com</a>), Saturdays 3pm-10pm Eastern</p>
<ul> <li> <p>3/7/20 - "<a contents="The Handling" data-link-label="The Handling" data-link-type="page" href="/the-handling" target="_blank">The Handling</a>"</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Carl Cafarelli, <a contents="THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://sparksyracuse.org/category/tirnrr/" target="_blank">THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO</a> on SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 & 93.7 FM (Syracuse, NY / <a contents="sparksyracuse.org" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://sparksyracuse.org/" target="_blank">sparksyracuse.org</a>), Sundays 9pm-12am Eastern</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="3/8/20 (episode #1016)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2020/03/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-1016.html" target="_blank">3/8/20</a> - "<a contents="If I Write It Down" data-link-label="If I Write It Down" data-link-type="page" href="/if-i-write-it-down" target="_blank">If I Write It Down</a>"</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Kathy Barham, <a contents="THE MUSIC TRUFFLER" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://musictruffler.blogspot.co.uk" target="_blank">THE MUSIC TRUFFLER</a> (Ruthin, Wales, UK / <a contents="Radio Clywd (Mixcloud)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.mixcloud.com/radioclwyd/stream/" target="_blank">Radio Clwyd (Mixcloud)</a> / <a contents="SeaBird Radio (UK)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://seabirdradio.co.uk/" target="_blank">SeaBird Radio (UK)</a>)</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="3/7/20 (episode #281)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.mixcloud.com/radioclwyd/the-music-truffler-show-281-7th-march-2020/" target="_blank">3/7/20 (episode #281)</a> - "<a contents="The Handling" data-link-label="The Handling" data-link-type="page" href="/the-handling" target="_blank">The Handling</a>" (Welsh radio debut)</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Mike Lidskin, TWIRLING HIS WOOD (Sacramento, CA / Woody Radio / <a contents="woodyradio.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://woodyradio.com" target="_blank">woodyradio.com</a>)</p>
<ul> <li> <p>3/10/20 - "<a contents="Diet Of Worms" data-link-label="Diet Of Worms" data-link-type="page" href="/diet-of-worms" target="_blank">Diet Of Worms</a>" (world premiere)</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Pacopepe Gil, PLÁSTICO ELÁSTICO (Madrid, Spain / <a contents="plasticoelastico.es" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://plasticoelastico.es/" target="_blank">plasticoelastico.es</a>)</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="3/11/20 (episode #3,790)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://plasticoelastico.es/programas/abrimos-con-una-buena-dosis-de-garage-para-ambientar-el-refugio-nuclear/" target="_blank">3/11/20 (episode #3,790)</a> - "The Handling"</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li>Fran Fried, FRANORAMA 2.0 on Cygnus Radio (Connecticut / <a contents="cygnusradio.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://cygnusradio.com" target="_blank">cygnusradio.com</a>), Thursdays 1-4pm Eastern <ul> <li> <p><a contents="Franorama 2.0 3/12/20" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://cygnusradio.com/franorama-2-0-3-12-20" target="_blank">Franorama 2.0 3/12/20</a> - "<a contents="It’s OK" data-link-label="It's OK" data-link-type="page" href="/it-s-ok" target="_blank">It’s OK</a>"; "<a contents="If I Write It Down" data-link-label="If I Write It Down" data-link-type="page" href="/if-i-write-it-down" target="_blank">If I Write It Down</a>"; "<a contents="The Handling" data-link-label="The Handling" data-link-type="page" href="/the-handling" target="_blank">The Handling</a>"; "<a contents="The President of the United States Is the Breitbart Bimbo" data-link-label="The President Of The United States Is The Breitbart Bimbo" data-link-type="page" href="/the-president-of-the-united-states-is-the-breitbart-bimbo" target="_blank">The President of the United States Is the Breitbart Bimbo</a>"; "<a contents="(Who Am I) To Ask You to Dance?" data-link-label="(Who Am I) To Ask You To Dance?" data-link-type="page" href="/who-am-i-to-ask-you-to-dance" target="_blank">(Who Am I) To Ask You to Dance?</a>"</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Ken Yates, <a contents="THE FANCLUB" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.coastfm.org.au/fan-club-2" target="_blank">THE FANCLUB</a> on <a contents="COAST-FM 963" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.coastfm.org.au" target="_blank">COAST-FM 963</a> (Gosford, NSW, Australia / <a contents="www.coastfm.org.au/fan-club-2" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.coastfm.org.au/fan-club-2" target="_blank">www.coastfm.org.au/fan-club-2</a>), alternate Thursdays 10pm-12am AU Eastern (6-8am Eastern)</p>
<ul> <li> <p>3/12/20 - "<a contents="The Handling" data-link-label="The Handling" data-link-type="page" href="/the-handling" target="_blank">The Handling</a>" (Australia radio debut)</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Rick Warhall, <a contents="CHASING THE ESSENTIAL" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/chasingtheessential" target="_blank">CHASING THE ESSENTIAL</a> (<a contents="Woody Radio" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.woodyradio.com/" target="_blank">Woody Radio</a> / <a contents="Podomatic" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/chasingtheessential" target="_blank">Podomatic</a>)</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="3/12/20" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/chasingtheessential/episodes/2020-03-12T16_22_38-07_00" target="_blank">3/12/20</a> - "<a contents="The Handling" data-link-label="The Handling" data-link-type="page" href="/the-handling" target="_blank">The Handling</a>"</p> </li> </ul> </li>
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<p>And a special thank-you to Barry Lee at KKFI FM Kansas City for playing my 2013 song "I Call Shenanigans" (from the <a contents="SHENANIGANS" data-link-label="Shenanigans" data-link-type="page" href="/shenanigans" target="_blank">SHENANIGANS</a> album) on March 6th, as part of an extra-loud power-pop block at the top of the second hour on his Signal To Noise show (go to https://archive.kkfi.org/ then search for Signal to Noise for March 6 2020).</p>
<p>More to come as the April 3rd album release date approaches!!</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/62418542020-03-08T14:48:42-05:002020-03-08T14:48:42-05:00REBUILDING PERMIT - order now for April 3 2020 Big Stir release<p><a contents="Big Stir Records" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bigstirrecords.com/dolph-chaney" target="_blank">Big Stir Records</a> press release:</p>
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<p>Time to start rebuilding! BIG STIR RECORDS is proud to announce the April 3 release of REBUILDING PERMIT, the new album from DOLPH CHANEY, up for pre-order now at <a contents="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/store" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/store" target="_blank">https://www.bigstirrecords.com/store</a> and everywhere music is sold. Seven years since the Chicagoland singer-songwriter's last album - and two solid years in the making - the wait is over. <a contents="Rebuilding Permit" data-link-label="Rebuilding Permit" data-link-type="page" href="/rebuilding-permit">Rebuilding Permit</a> is in hand for spring 2020, and Dolph is here to break new ground with his full-length debut on Big Stir. </p>
<p>It's an eclectic but focused stunner. Coming out of a challenging time of loss and recovery, Dolph has tightened up and written in a way that uses his imaginative skills to connect with his listeners at a deeper level than ever. You can still expect what you came for if you're already hip to his deal: chord changes, collisions of style, and turns of phrase that fly in from all directions, only to make themselves right at home. What's different here is that Chaney has kept the quirks and digressions as filigree, digging deeper to the emotions underneath. The whimsy is in the details rather than being the point. Our boy's grown up! </p>
<p>And for the first time since his 1998 New Bird Rise album, he and his quiver of guitars, Moog, and bass are not doing all the work alone. The Rebuilding crew includes engineer Milk Arnold, Ryan O'Malley (who adds roiling Hammond organ to "A Good Road Is Hard To Find"), and drummers Clayton Melocik (on the giant psych-jangle of leadoff track"It's OK") and Jim LeFager, who navigates the rest of the album's gauntlet of genres. </p>
<p>Indeed, you'll be treated to everything from rolling shanty-folk ("The Biscuit (Who Grabbed My Face)") to sensitive and deft rimshot grooves ("Broken," "If I Write It Down") and dam-smashing echo ("Diet Of Worms"), from searing and searching roots-rock ("The Handling”) and an end-of-prom last-nerds-standing waltz ("(Who Am I) To Ask You To Dance?") to the '90s-throwback agitpop-punk of "The President Of The United States Is The Breitbart Bimbo." The comparisons to Bob Mould, Guided By Voices, and even Peter Gabriel seem apt given the scope of the work on hand here. </p>
<p>Rebuilding Permit comes on the heels of two singles, “It's OK” and “The Handling”, which garnered international airplay and a wider audience for Chaney, yielding reviews from the likes of The Big Takeover (“a passionate wall of melody”) and a Dolph-curated artist block on Boom Radio's There Once Was A Note program. Both tracks, along with exclusive non-album B-sides, can be found on the BIG STIR SINGLES CD compilations (THE THIRD WAVE and THE SIXTH WAVE respectively). Dolph Chaney is thrilled to have REBUILDING PERMIT on file with Big Stir so he can get to work making a new home in your ears and hearts.</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392627/4294648f383dc19e7c4ea8061155826adf4fc84f/original/dolph-big-stir.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/62342982020-03-02T07:01:05-06:002020-03-06T22:03:59-06:00"The Handling" single out Mar 6 2020 on Big Stir<p>Big Stir Records press release:</p>
<p>This Friday, March 6, 2020, “<a contents="Handling" data-link-label="The Handling" data-link-type="page" href="/the-handling" target="_blank">The Handling</a>” by Dolph Chaney becomes the 63rd BIG STIR DIGITAL SINGLE OF THE WEEK!! It’s 3 ½ minutes of jangly, pure pop ear candy. As always, it's available to order at <a contents="www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles" target="_blank">www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles</a> www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles now. </p>
<p>This is the second BIG STIR DIGITAL SINGLE from Illinois-based, low-fi champion Dolph Chaney’s upcoming “Rebuilding Permit” album which will be released on Big Stir Records this April. Backed with “Automatic Caution Door,” the sound of “The Handling”, and the entire ”Rebuilding Permit” album, is pop that is at once both familiar and alien. The guitars ring and buzz with Pete Townshendy zeal and analog synth bloops as Chaney’s voice soothes, cajoles, smirks, pries then climbs higher and higher until the listener becomes aware of being awash in an apocalyptic epiphany amid a song about nasal spray. </p>
<p>“It took a surprisingly long time to write a song as simple as 'The Handling'”, says Dolph Chaney about his upcoming single. “I had the gist of the verses and the main riff seemingly forever. I would come back to it every few months over a period of nearly two years. My dad flew away the following October, the oldest and largest-looming of the "old cats" I'd had to bid farewell that year. I relied upon "The Handling" to help hold myself together.” Chaney plays guitar, bass and sings on “The Handling,” and Jim LeFager keeps the beat with his steady drumming. The song was produced by Dolph Chaney, co-produced and mixed by Milk Arnold and mastered by the maestro himself, Big Stir’s very own Steven Eric Wilson. </p>
<p>“’Automatic Caution Door’ was originally written on 04/04/04,” continues Chaney. “The original version was the closer of my CDR-only album VERY JUST FINE: AMPLITUDE THREE. It's either a weird prayer or a really weird love song.” Here again we find Jim LeFager’s rock steady drumming keeping time as Dolph contributes his voice, acoustic guitar, bass, electric guitar and E-bow guitar. </p>
<p>Comparisons have been made to acknowledged influences such as XTC, Robyn Hitchcock, the Violent Femmes, Bob Mould, Elvis Costello, Matthew Sweet, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Henry Cow. </p>
<p>Dolph Chaney’s music has brought him experiences running the gamut, from early encouragement received by mail from experimental guitar shaman Eugene Chadbourne, to sitting in a festival green room being told by Jim Bakker why he cowers at the sight of a Diet Coke. </p>
<p>Chaney’s prior work is available immediately along with many others via www.dolphchaney.com and major online retailers and services. Throughout these three decades of work, what always shines through in a Dolph Chaney release are the imaginative, irrepressible, and deeply felt songs. Feel them today.</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/62325642020-02-29T14:49:46-06:002020-02-29T14:49:46-06:00REBUILDING PERMIT exclusive radio previews<p>Have you heard? Exclusive tracks from <a contents="REBUILDING PERMIT" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://dolphchaney.com/rebuilding-permit" target="_blank">REBUILDING PERMIT</a> are spreading around online and FM radio stations in advance of the April 2020 album release! Here are the shows who have played tracks thus far (and where you can hear each show on-demand -- these are all terrific playlists with expert musical hosts!):</p>
<ul> <li>Fran Fried, FRANORAMA 2.0 on Cygnus Radio (Connecticut / <a contents="cygnusradio.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://cygnusradio.com" target="_blank">cygnusradio.com</a>), Thursdays 1-4pm Eastern
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="Franorama 2.0 2/6/20&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://cygnusradio.com/franorama-2-0-2-6-20/" target="_blank">Franorama 2.0 2/6/20</a> - "<a contents="The President Of The United States Is The Breitbart Bimbo (Protest Rally Mix)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="track" href="/track/2224360/the-president-of-the-united-states-is-the-breitbart-bimbo-protest-rally-mix" target="_blank">The President Of The United States Is The Breitbart Bimbo (Protest Rally Mix)</a>"</p> </li> <li> <p><a contents="Franorama 2.0 2/27/20" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://cygnusradio.com/franorama-2-0-2-27-20/" target="_blank">Franorama 2.0 2/27/20</a> - "<a contents="The President Of The United States Is The Breitbart Bimbo" data-link-label="The President Of The United States Is The Breitbart Bimbo" data-link-type="page" href="/the-president-of-the-united-states-is-the-breitbart-bimbo" target="_blank">The President Of The United States Is The Breitbart Bimbo</a> (album version)"</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Mike DeAngelis, THERE ONCE WAS A NOTE on BOOM Radio (South Carolina / <a contents="boomradio.podbean.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://boomradio.podbean.com" target="_blank">boomradio.podbean.com</a>), Thursdays 8-10pm Eastern</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="There Once Was A Note 2/13/20 (The Nocturnal Electric Sunrise Jam)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-vvx24-d37000" target="_blank">There Once Was A Note 2/13/20 (The Nocturnal Electric Sunrise Jam)</a> - "<a contents="A Good Road Is Hard To Find" data-link-label="A Good Road Is Hard To Find" data-link-type="page" href="/a-good-road-is-hard-to-find" target="_blank">A Good Road Is Hard To Find</a>"</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Conrad Callan, CONRADIO (County Kerry, Ireland / <a contents="mixlr.com/conradio" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://mixlr.com/conradio" target="_blank">mixlr.com/conradio</a>), Wednesdays 4-7pm Eastern</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="ConRadio 2/26/20" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://mixlr.com/conradio/showreel/conradio-on-mixlr-305" target="_blank">ConRadio 2/26/20</a> - "<a contents="(Who Am I) To Ask You To Dance?" data-link-label="(Who Am I) To Ask You To Dance?" data-link-type="page" href="/who-am-i-to-ask-you-to-dance" target="_blank">(Who Am I) To Ask You To Dance?</a>"</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Mike Bennett, CHIRP Radio WCXP Radio 107.1FM (Chicago, IL / <a contents="chirpradio.org" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://chirpradio.org" target="_blank">chirpradio.org</a>), Saturdays 10am-1pm Eastern</p>
<ul> <li> <p><a contents="2/29/20" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.radiofreeamerica.com/dj/mike-bennett" target="_blank">2/29/20</a> - "<a contents="The Biscuit (Who Grabbed My Face)" data-link-label="The Biscuit (Who Grabbed My Face)" data-link-type="page" href="/the-biscuit-who-grabbed-my-face" target="_blank">The Biscuit (Who Grabbed My Face)</a>"</p> </li> </ul> </li>
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<p>Between these exclusives, plus the play that the above DJs among others have given to "<a contents="It's OK" data-link-label="It's OK" data-link-type="page" href="/it-s-ok" target="_blank">It's OK</a>" since its single release August 2019, more than half the album is in rotation already! More advance play to come -- including a 2nd single coming out in March -- stay tuned!</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/61979112020-01-30T23:42:37-06:002020-01-31T13:13:10-06:00Big Stir Records adds Dolph Chaney to roster<p>From the Big Stir Records Facebook page:</p>
<p>It is time for Big Stir Records to begin rolling out our Cast of Characters for our 2020 album release slate! And what a cast it is, having started with Anton Barbeau and soon to cross oceans from the UK to the California coast and back to Germany with points Midwestern looming large in between. So let us first introduce you to: DOLPH CHANEY, whose Artist page can be found at <a contents="www.bigstirrecords.com/dolph-chaney" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.bigstirrecords.com/dolph-chaney" target="_blank">www.bigstirrecords.com/dolph-chaney</a> ... so let's meet the man, shall we? </p>
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<p>In June of 2016, Dolph Chaney was a JEOPARDY! contestant. Alex Trebek spent his interview with Dolph by trading "Weird Al" Yankovic anecdotes. His correct question-answers included John Lennon, Flight Of The Conchords, and Jesse & the Rippers. So, if you're new to Dolph's music, you should know that you're in talented, smart, and funny hands – which join together with those at Big Stir Records to bring you a new album for 2020, entitled REBUILDING PERMIT. </p>
<p>Arriving 7 years after its self-released predecessor (SHENANIGANS), REBUILDING has PERMITted outside collaborators for the first time since 1998's NEW BIRD RISE. In either a group setting or on such solo homemade peaks as GUMSHOE KOALA (2008) and LOUDNESS 2 11 (2012), Dolph's creativity and craft come through in clover. Drawing on themes going all the way back to his first 1987 broken-boombox recordings as an Indiana teenager, REBUILDING PERMIT is a watershed for Dolph because it's his clearest communication yet – even the in-jokes don't keep anyone out. </p>
<p>But it's not all fun and game shows-- the REBUILDING has been thorough and it's all reflected in the songs, as Dolph spent the intervening years getting sober and grieving the passing of several loved ones, including his Baptist-minister father. The themes of reconciling past and present are reflected all over Dolph's work, perhaps never more so than in “Christmas,” the 1999 song that is his contribution to the 2019 BIG STIR HOLIDAY MAXI-SINGLE, and in a more forward-looking and even joyful fashion, the lead single “It's OK” which has graced the label's BIG STIR SINGLES: THE FOURTH WAVE compilation along with its B-side, entiteled... well, “I Am The B-Side”. </p>
<p>As with his acknowledged influence (and fellow Dayton Ohio native) Robert Pollard, much of Dolph's work is like collage. Just as the the album's cover drops an ersatz REBUILDING PERMIT sign in front of his Chicago-area Studio Dolphty home base, a Dolph Chaney song is likely to gaffer-tape seemingly unrelated elements. An '80s-ish college-rock fingerpicking pattern might jump off a shoegaze bridge. A chattering sample-and-hold Moog drone may be just as likely to whirr and bloop along with a sensitive ballad as it would with a screeching careen of runaway guitars. The lyrics are similarly intuitive and surprising, with waves of wordplay riding the edge of taking over the proceedings – when an emotional sucker-punch may be right around the corner. Not every sentiment is subtle (see the agitpop-punk of "The President Of The United States Is The Breitbart Bimbo”), but they're all full of feeling and fun, and skillfully done. And it's all on display on REBUILDING PERMIT, a new high mark for Chaney that we're delighted to present.</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60160032019-12-04T18:00:00-06:002019-12-05T05:05:16-06:00"Christmas" new version on Big Stir Records Holiday Maxi-Single<p>I'm thrilled to announce that a slight return of my song "Christmas" (written in 2000, re-recorded for LOUDNESS 2 11), which has now been rigged up with a new rhythm section and guitars, is included on the BIG STIR HOLIDAY MAXI-SINGLE for 2019! </p>
<p><a href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles" target="_blank">Order</a> NOW!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392627/bed6a11a92797c1e1fb085980cccb1ec5ef60598/original/cover.png/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NDAwMHg0MDAwIl0%3D.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="4000" width="4000" /></p>
<p>What else is there, you ask? Well, for your $4, you get 8 songs total, on which I'm honored to be joined by Anton Barbeau, the Bobbleheads, Kai Danzberg & Scott McPherson, the Decibels, the Forty Nineteens, Alison Faith Levy + Karla Kane, and the legendary Kimberley Rew & Lee Cave-Berry!! Details and order link at the Big Stir <a href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/store" target="_blank">Store</a> - available now!!</p>
<p>The maxi has received a very warm notice from DJ Mike DeAngelis on his There Once Was A Note <a href="http://www.mikedeangelis.com/2019/big-stir-athanor-holiday-maxi-single" target="_blank">blog</a> --</p>
<p>http://www.mikedeangelis.com/2019/big-stir-athanor-holiday-maxi-single</p>
<p>Since it's not <em>all</em> about me... here's the bit about me:</p>
<p>"Dolph Chaney’s acoustic guitar-driven “Christmas” looks for light in the shadows of a season that runs the full spectrum of emotions…“the pitter-patter of little defeats”…after repeatedly asking “Can it be Christmas” as scenes of past and present float by, the answer arrives…“Well, it is, said a voice, with nobody attached…” The doubt and disillusionment melt away as the true meaning of the season reveals itself. It’s a beautifully honest and emotional track that takes a non-traditional route to the heart of it all."</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60160022019-11-23T18:00:00-06:002019-11-24T05:23:33-06:002 tracks on Big Stir CD benefit for special needs families<p>For Giving Tuesday 2019, "It's OK" and "I Am The B-Side" will make their physical debut on BIG STIR SINGLES: THE FOURTH WAVE -- the newest in the ongoing series of quarterly roundups from <a title="Big Stir Records" href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/store" target="_blank">Big Stir Records</a>. The Ed Asner Family Center gets $5 for every copy (CD or download) of THE FOURTH WAVE. This incredible organization provides support to families of those with special needs, and I have never been prouder to be associated in some small way (alongside my Big Stir buddies, particularly acknowledging Joe Normal, Rex Broome and Christina Bulbenko) with such inspiring and meaningful work.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392627/8dd02d1476cd89a3fbb53a2e7ede9fddb7d045f7/original/the-fourth-wave-cover-square.png/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NjAweDYwMCJd.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="600" width="600" /></p>
<p>On top of all that, the compilation itself (available Dec 3 on CD and download) is a total gas, 25 tracks of guitar harmony bliss. Joe Normal & the Anytown'rs (who initiated the connection to the Asner Center) contribute the keynote track "Even Now", and the A and B sides of 12 singles from various angles of melodic guitar rock from California veterans like Blake Jones & The the Trike Shop, sparkle*jets UK, The Reflectors, The Walker Brigade, and recent BSR signees Shplang, as well as likeminded artists from throughout the US (Carol Pacey & the Honey Shakers, The Hangabouts, Broken Arrows, and the Persian Leaps) and UK (The Vapour Trails, Armstrong) who fit the tuneful Big Stir ethos like a fingerless velvet glove. (Read more at <a href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-records-compilations" target="_blank">https://www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-records-compilations</a> where you can order and get an instant download from the album!)</p>
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<p>ABOUT THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER:</p>
<p>Legendary Emmy®-winning actor and comedian Ed Asner, who has brought us laughter and entertainment for more than four decades, today announced the creation of The Ed Asner Family Center (TEAFC), dedicated to promoting self-confidence in differently abled individuals and bringing balance and wellness to those individuals and their families. A longtime advocate for the developmentally disabled and those on the autistic spectrum, Asner personally understands the challenges that Special Needs families face, and the healing power of a creative, loving environment.</p>
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<p>Said Asner: “This is a dream of mine - to establish an oasis of creativity in every special needs community. A place where our most beautiful dreamers of all can have their opportunity to thrive and in doing so learn valuable lessons about themselves and the world and in the same building give families an opportunity to be healthy. This center of enrichment is where we can develop a most important part of our being, character.”</p>
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<p>The Ed Asner Family Center will be offering a wide variety of Arts programs as well as mental health support and de-stress classes such as mindfulness and yoga dedicated to promoting self-confidence and balance. Additional classed include music, dance, voice over, theatre, fine arts, culinary, resume building and job mentorship classes.</p>
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<p>www.BigStirRecords.com</p>
<p>www.edasnerfamilycenter.org</p>
<p>www.joenormalusa.com</p>
<p> </p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60160012019-08-18T19:00:00-05:002019-08-21T02:41:46-05:00Pre-order available: IT'S OK -- Big Stir Digital Single -- 2019-08-23<p> </p>
<p>Both tracks of the single ("It's OK" b/w "I Am The B-Side") are now available to preview and pre-order for Friday e-delivery.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles" target="_blank">www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles</a></p>
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<p>Here's what Big Stir has to say about it:</p>
<p>Big Stir Records’ 40th Digital single release (out Friday, August 23 and available for pre-order now at <a href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles" target="_blank">www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles</a>) comes from Illinois-based lo-fi mastermind DOLPH CHANEY. Dolph’s roots in the Big Stir massive trace back to the ’90s when Chaney and BSR co-founder REX BROOME were part of an online songwriting cabal (also including Single Series vets MATT SEWELL of CHARMS AGAINST THE EVIL EYE and PAULA CARINO among others) centered around mutual love of ROBYN HITCHCOCK’s work. Dolph is now back with a forthcoming album REBUILDING PERMIT, and our single, “It’s Okay”, cheekily backed with “I Am The B-Side”, is your first chance to hear what the prolific and brilliant singer-guitarist is about to unleash.</p>
<p><br>Meanwhile -- please enjoy a little video series on "The Making Of 'It's OK' by Dolph Chaney" -- for your sausage-making-viewing needs! </p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="438" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fijtoCZhI9k?list=PLp5yRs1nBAoYFCuimMdSE92yfRYcifaQA" width="700" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>
<p> </p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60160002019-08-14T19:00:00-05:002019-08-21T02:40:16-05:00IT'S OK -- Big Stir Digital Single -- 2019-08-23<h4>IT'S OK -- Big Stir Digital Single -- August 23, 2019</h4>
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<p><a href="/files/424122/its-ok-cover-1080px.jpg"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392627/179c447c6b75e763984ebac87c31b55121fe1274/original/its-ok-cover-1080px.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NjAweDYwMCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="IT'S OK single cover" height="600" width="600" /> </a></p>
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<p>On August 23rd 2019, Dolph is proud to present the IT'S OK single, as a summertime pre-taste of the REBUILDING PERMIT album to follow in the fall. Making this extra special, the release is part of the <a title="Big Stir Digital Singles" href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles" target="_blank">Big Stir Digital Singles</a> series from venerable Burbank melodic-rock / power-pop institution <a title="Big Stir Records" href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/" target="_blank">Big Stir Records</a> (helmed by Rex Broome and Christina Bulbenko, a.k.a. the core of <a title="The Armoires" href="dolphchaney.com/dolphspins/the_armoires_zibaldone____did_the_armoires_new_album_save_my_life_/" target="_blank">The Armoires</a>).</p>
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<p>The single includes two of Dolph's best and brightest songs: the newly-minty-breathed title track, plus "I Am The B-Side," the (ahem) B-side, which may be familiar to those who knew him when... When? 1995, from his days in Houston as one-third of hopefuls Port Radium. </p>
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<p>Joining in are a different drummer per side: Clayton Melocik on "It's OK," and Jim LeFager on the flip. The mix is provided by engineer Milk Arnold, who put in long hours and high data transfer levels collaborating on the sound with Dolph between their respective Arizona and Illinois home bases.</p>
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<p>One smacker (American) will get you the download, and you'll be glad you did!</p>
<p> </p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159992017-12-31T18:00:00-06:002018-01-01T03:21:22-06:002017 - RELEASED THIS YEAR<p>1. Juliana Hatfield, PUSSYCAT<br>- In 2017, where an up-to-the-minute protest album was needed more than ever, how many of us guessed it would come from Juliana Hatfield? Coming out when it did, directly between the Women's March and #metoo, it's pointed, hilarious, caustic, and yet as singalongable and well-crafted as the best of her 30-year career. Makes me wanna go fuck shit up.<br> (<a href="https://julianahatfield.bandcamp.com/album/pussycat">purchase at Bandcamp</a>)<br>2. Thundercat, DRUNK<br>3. Nicole Atkins, GOODNIGHT RHONDA LEE<br>4. The War On Drugs, A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING<br>5. Slowdive, SLOWDIVE<br>6. Robyn Hitchcock, ROBYN HITCHCOCK<br>7. Deradoorian, ETERNAL RECURRENCE<br>8. Jay Som, EVERYBODY WORKS<br>9. Ex Eye, EX EYE<br>10. Laura Marling, SEMPER FEMINA<br>11. The Magnetic Fields, 50 SONG MEMOIR<br>12. Waxahatchee, OUT IN THE STORM<br>13. Cold Specks, FOOL'S PARADISE<br>14. Hiss Golden Messenger, HALLELUJAH ANYHOW<br>15. Lorde, MELODRAMA<br>16. Bully, LOSING<br>17. Mark Eitzel, HEY MR FERRYMAN<br>18. Jeremy Enigk, GHOSTS<br>19. Julien Baker, TURN OUT THE LIGHTS<br>20. Wire, SILVER/LEAD<br>21. Brand New, SCIENCE FICTION<br>22. Laurel Halo, DUST<br>23. Samantha Crain, YOU HAD ME AT GOODBYE<br>24. Perfume Genius, NO SHAPE<br>25. Syd, FIN<br>26. Elbow, LITTLE FICTIONS<br>27. The Clientele, MUSIC FOR THE AGE OF MIRACLES<br>28. Piano Magic, CLOSURE<br>29. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, LOTTA SEA LICE<br>30. King Crimson, LIVE IN VIENNA<br>31. Guided By Voices, AUGUST BY CAKE<br>32. Guided By Voices, HOW DO YOU SPELL HEAVEN<br>33. Momus, PILLYCOCK<br>34. Protomartyr, RELATIVES IN DESCENT<br>35. The Fall, NEW FACTS EMERGE<br>36. The Mountain Goats, GOTHS<br>37. Mount Eerie, A CROW LOOKED AT ME<br>38. Steven Wilson, TO THE BONE<br>39. Josh Ritter, GATHERING<br>40. The Dollyrots, WHIPLASH SPLASH<br>41. Willie Nelson, GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD<br>42. Ty Segall, TY SEGALL<br>43. Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott, CROOKED CALYPSO<br>44. The Menzingers, AFTER THE PARTY<br>45. Sampha, PROCESS<br>46. St. Vincent, MASSEDUCTION<br>47. Offa Rex, THE QUEEN OF HEARTS<br>48. Kendrick Lamar, DAMN.<br>49. Glen Campbell, ADIÓS<br>50. Dean Hurley, ANTHOLOGY RESOURCE VOL. 1: ΔΔ</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159982016-01-03T18:00:00-06:002016-01-04T13:55:33-06:002015 - favorites "RELEASED THIS YEAR"<p>Well, folks -- though I didn't put out new music myself in 2015, and though my weekly blog RELEASED THIS DAY went to sleep 3 years ago, I still did a pretty fair amount of listening to new stuff, and here are the albums I enjoyed the most.</p>
<p><br>WHAT REALLY HIT ME WERE THESE:</p>
<p>1. Girlpool, BEFORE THE WORLD WAS BIG<br>-- This record makes me want to run around flapping my arms with the biggest grin I can muster, except that I don't want to miss a word or a detail. It leaps out of the speakers, partly thanks to the square, double-tracked dryness of the production, but mostly from the lemon-rind-smile of the songs and the dual harmonies. There's a quality that reminds me of Built To Spill's THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH LOVE, before all the guitars got in the way of the perfectly small-scaled lyric details and misleading tension between winsomeness and sharpness (P.S.: BtS's 2015 comeback UNTETHERED MOON sticks to the later approach of the band but gets the balance more right than they have in over a decade). By the time the title track launches into a friggin' *round* for its final minute, you will be unable to escape the Girlpool vortex... and it sure doesn't suck.<br>2. Baroness, PURPLE<br>-- Sometimes, the best response to soul-crushing life events (which, in the band's case, were also body-crushing life events) is just to absolutely pummel them with majestic balls of rockness. Baroness's majestic rockness balls happen to be PURPLE.<br>3. Sleater-Kinney, NO CITIES TO LOVE<br>-- The members' efforts while apart were always worth attention (Wild Flag in particular going far underrated), but the result of Sleater-Kinney's long-drooled-over reunion proves that there is no substitute for the unique chemistry of a perfect power trio. If anything, the hiatus seems to have created their most evenly balanced set of contributions. Carrie Brownstein serves as the dominant artistic voice here like never before, with Corin Tucker dancing around her, instead of the other way around as on most previous S-K records. The only thing keeping NO CITIES from being a career peak is that the Sleater-Kinney discography is entirely made up of peaks. Legacy burnished, not tarnished; all missions accomplished.<br>4. Deradoorian, THE EXPANDING FLOWER PLANET<br>-- ...on which I discovered that nearly everything I've enjoyed about Dirty Projectors albums was provided by Angel Deradoorian during her tenure. Polyrhythmic, layered, loopy hypnomusic.<br>5. Chris Stapleton, TRAVELLER<br>-- Real actual genuine bonafide got-damn country music incapable of generating embarrassment -- a seemingly impossible task these days for artists under age 40. That even the CMA noticed gives hope beyond what I thought possible.<br>6. Alabama Shakes, SOUND & COLOR<br>-- For me, above all else, it's about "This Feeling" - the first new song of 2015 that gave me a genuine, uncomplicated, earned sense of positivity and optimism about life. These days, that is no small damn feat. There are many more challenging, bolder, more innovative albums out there, but SOUND & COLOR is classic.<br>7. Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, DJANGO & JIMMIE<br>-- Effortless but never lazy, Willie & Merle could've phoned this in by playing up either their gravitas or their camaraderie, and no one would've faulted them. Instead, stubbornly as ever, they let the music come to them, let it breathe and be natural, while still letting an occasional wink ("It's All Gone To Pot") slip through. Backdoor barbecue record of the year.<br>8. Samantha Crain, UNDER BRANCH & THORN & TREE<br>-- If "When You Come Back" doesn't, at least a little, move you, I'm not sure we can still be friends.<br>9. Julia Holter, HAVE YOU IN MY WILDERNESS <br>-- After a decade's worth of brilliant but distant albums, Holter has hit on the balance between human and artificial, orchestral and synthetic, to create something that communicates as much as it impresses. Those who are coming to her work anew have my envy for hearing her overall body of work for the first time.<br>10. Jenny Hval, APOCALYPSE, GIRL<br>-- Saved from being overly didactic by the playfulness in her framing and delivery, Hval essays a unique take on keeping your heart at work when your head knows the world is out to get you for your gender / race / politics / being. On her 6th album (counting both early work as Rockettothesky and albums released under her own name), Hval arrives on a larger statewide stage and delivers the goods.</p>
<p><br>AND ALSO:<br>11. Deerhunter, FADING FRONTIER<br>-- On album after great album with Deerhunter and Atlas Sound, provocation after provocation in a decade of interviews, Bradford Cox has made a new kind of statement on FADING FRONTIER. Oversharing-as-distancing-device is replaced with sharing-as-communicating. Thus, simple-seeming songs like "All The Same" and "Snakeskin" are simultaneously singalongable and heartbreaking. <br>12. The Mountain Goats, BEAT THE CHAMP<br>-- John Darnielle puts down his Bible and has fun watching some wrestling, like my dad used to do after sermon prep every Saturday evening. Probably that makes me enjoy this more than most. Lucky me.<br>13. Kurt Vile, B'LIEVE I'M GOIN' DOWN<br>-- Runner-up for my aforementioned "barbecue album" prize. More relaxed and yet more focused -- a neat trick that pays off.<br>14. Patty Griffin, SERVANT OF LOVE<br>-- The jaw-dropping pin-drop of the opening title track's piano-backed desperation calls back to the stark nightmare catharses of her 20-year-old debut LIVING WITH GHOSTS, and it's a slap awake that is sustained by a typically excellent set of songs. Other arrangement surprises (the muted trumpet of "Gunpowder", the mallets-on-ribcages percussion of "Good and Gone") keep this fresh. Griffin suitably keeps her pulverizing voice in a controlled range for maximum storytelling effect (likely something about which she and sometime collaborator Robert Plant have compared notes). While she's almost never put a foot wrong in her career, SERVANT is a particularly accomplished and affecting Patty Griffin album among many.<br>15. Rhiannon Giddens, TOMORROW IS MY TURN and FACTORY GIRL<br>-- The frontwoman of Carolina Chocolate Drops steps forward and claims her spotlight, with a timeless blues-folk-jazz hybrid that never feels staid or safe in its traditionalism. (For a pure jazz counterpart, try Cecile McLorin Salvant's torchy and exquisite FOR ONE TO LOVE.)<br>16. Viet Cong, VIET CONG<br>-- There's a lot of cranky 1979/1981 music I love that shares characteristics with it, but VIET CONG never feels like a throwback or a fashion statement unlike so many recent albums that call back to post-punk. It's by turns grating and lovely music that never lets up on kicking complacency where it hurts.<br>17. Ibeyi, IBEYI<br>-- Transfixing music, earnest but suitable for long sessions in bed or on the beach.<br>18. Ryley Walker, PRIMROSE GREEN<br>-- This is deeply lovely and earnest and pastoral, but sung full-throatedly by Walker with exuberant, jazz-inflected backing -- as if Nick Drake's BRYTER LAYTER were injected with fresh espresso.<br>19. Wolf Alice, MY LOVE IS COOL<br>-- ...sure is. I like imagining a TV murder-mystery with this as its soundtrack.<br>20. Beach House, DEPRESSION CHERRY and THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS<br>-- Two albums two months apart, both solid, both pushing their development forward while feeling integral rather than unfocused. What a roll they're on.<br>21. Torres, SPLINTER<br>-- Confessional, pain-riven songwriting, gut-felt singing, layered with rock drama and craft uncommon for an album released at this scale. Occasionally the album could do with a candle or two in all the darkness, but maybe the album's environment wouldn't support it.<br>22. Father John Misty, I LOVE YOU, HONEYBEAR<br>-- I wanted to hate this so much after his May 18th "Late Night With Seth Meyers" appearance -- so smug, so "meta," so full of itself -- giving the material its TV debut. Mea culpa: over time, that seems to be much more about that night's particular performance persona than the actual material. Which is frequently lovely and laced with personal romantic reverie of a type that I am too soft of constitution to resist.<br>23. Wilco, STAR WARS<br>-- Among the surprises of the year, and not just because of its hypeless instant-karma release "plan." Essentially, it's A GHOST IS BORN, except enjoyable.<br>24. Lightning Bolt, FANTASY EMPIRE<br>-- Bwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr. Best title goes to the 11+-minute "Snow White (And The 7 Dwarves Fans)."<br>25. The Districts, A FLOURISH AND A SPOIL<br>-- To be absolutely as lazy a reviewer as possible, I'd say the Districts make me think of the Strokes, minus the pretense and fashion slavery, plus the kind of tension, drama, and quality songs the latter band has long forgotten how to create.<br>26. Titus Andronicus, THE MOST LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY<br>-- In a career of obsessive artistic ambitions in the service of lacerating self-expression, Patrick Stickles & co. have outdone themselves beyond even their punk-rock Civil War opus THE MONITOR. Perhaps a trim of a piano ballad here or a string overdub there would be welcomed, but this is a vision, widescreen and uncompromisingly executed.<br>27. Colleen Green, I WANT TO GROW UP<br>-- (Hint: she doesn't really sound like she does, and you just don't care.)<br>28. Wire, WIRE<br>-- Probably all they needed to get a higher spot on my list is a better, Wire-ier song title for the track "Blogging." It's the band's most focused work since Bruce Gilbert's departure.<br>29/30. (tie). <br> Empress Of, ME<br> Lower Dens, ESCAPE FROM EVIL<br>-- Two fine examples of new-wave-informed micropop with sustained musical moods and effective late-night details in the lyrics.</p>
<p><br>...I MEAN, LIKE, OF COURSE THESE ARE GREAT, EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS THAT:<br>Kamasi Washington, THE EPIC<br>-- A conceptually linked three-album set of retro/future jazz? In 2015? Why not -- you've got co-conspirators like Thundercat (a gifted bassist/vocalist, with his own great 2015 album THE BEYOND / WHERE THE GIANTS ROAM on the books), with whom you've already adorned the world's consensus Album Of The Year (TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY). ...*shit*, Kamasi. Go ahead, man. And next time some kid calls a tv episode "epic," throw this dense brick of genius music at his head. (For a less jazzy, funkier, but similarly freewheeling brew, see Hiatus Kiayote's CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON.)<br>Kendrick Lamar, TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY<br>-- (...like I said. And for real, it's a generation-definer.)<br>Courtney Barnett, SOMETIMES I SIT AND THINK AND SOMETIMES I JUST SIT<br>-- Big Ol' Curmudgeon-Face Me initially brushed this off as lacking the ferocity of her Pitchfork-Festival-owning live energy. But the album grew mightily on me, and though I'm still certain her best work is well ahead of her, there's no denying this as one of the year's best. <br>Björk, VULNICURA<br>-- It's too reductionist to file VULNICURA as just another major artist's breakup album ("BJÖRK ON THE TRACKS"™), but the work makes no secret of the events, nor of the depth of her pain and the strength of her resolve to emerge from it. The mourning mood is matched musically at every step, and with VOLTA and BIOPHILIA having taken on first a worldwide and then a cosmological scope, VULNICURA's abrupt perspective shift inward feels true to the circumstances. (P.S.: don't sleep on the secondary release VULNICURA STRINGS.)<br>Grimes, ART ANGELS<br>-- In a year with no St. Vincent album, Grimes gives us an un-guitar-y equivalent: veering between the brash and the interior, experimental and ear-catching, always intelligent, and always fun. ART ANGELS improves on her breakthrough VISIONS with just a degree more boldness and self-assuredness in the sound and perspective.<br>Sufjan Stevens, CARRIE & LOWELL<br>-- Sure, I enjoy it when he fucks around - he's got a sense of play like few other grown folks in music. But the payoff for sitting through underwhelming ambient sessions and goofy creative-writing-workshop exercises are the way he gets quiet and real, reaching his sweet, wounded core. Without those elements in balance, either way is too far and he reads as obnoxious. Taken together, his zigzags make him a figure something like his generation's Neil Young; here, he's in TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT / ON THE BEACH form, both in terms of tone and achievement. Perhaps a more deserving objective achievement than my #1, but full of emotions that are less fun to engage every day.</p>
<p><br>EVER-SO-SLIGHT FALL-OFFS FROM PRIOR ALBUMS, YET NONETHELESS QUITE FINE INDEED:<br>Jason Isbell, SOMETHING MORE THAN FREE<br>-- I mean, how do you kvetch about an album this great, except that it has to follow the impossible-to-follow SOUTHEASTERN? "24 Frames" is just the first example of a perfect song that comes to mind.<br>Dwight Yoakam, SECOND HAND HEART<br>-- Continuing the direction (and the hot streak) launched by 2012's 3 PEARS, Yoakam's latest is just a notch behind its predecessor in the freshness of the songs and the sense of the new. Still, a big winner.<br>Dawes, ALL YOUR FAVORITE BANDS<br>The Damnwells, THE DAMNWELLS<br>Justin Townes Earle, SINGLE MOTHERS / ABSENT FATHERS<br>Krallice, YGG HUUR<br>Lianne La Havas, BLOOD<br>Laurel Halo, IN SITU<br>Lucero, ALL A MAN SHOULD DO<br>Kacey Musgraves, PAGEANT MATERIAL<br>Pugwash, PLAY THIS INTIMATELY (AS IF AMONG FRIENDS)<br>Punch Brothers, THE PHOSPHORESCENT BLUES<br>Josh Ritter, SERMON ON THE ROCKS<br>Tame Impala, CURRENTS<br>Richard Thompson, STILL</p>
<p><br>HONORARY "THE BEATLES' SECOND ALBUM" SECOND ALBUM AWARD: <br>Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, AFTER<br>-- Some serious sudden-loud-chorus suckerpunching here, to the point that the trick gets a little old by the end, but there's a nifty lyric around every corner -- and the opening one-two ("Vena Cava" and "Billions Of Eyes") alone earns AFTER the big soph prize.<br>Diamond Rugs, COSMETICS<br>-- Thank goodness D.Rugs weren't just a one-off! The Deer Tick / Dead Confederate / Six Finger Satellite / Black Lips members who take sonic vacations with Steve Berlin's baritone sax every so often are back, and it's an absolute gas. (Member T. Hardy Morris also came up a double-winner with Hardy & the Hardknocks' DROWNIN' ON A MOUNTAINTOP.)<br>Chastity Belt, TIME TO GO HOME<br>-- Subverting the patriarchy was never so dreamy.<br>Fuzz, FUZZ II<br>-- Ty Segall's MANIPULATOR dominated my 2014. In a rare year with no new original albums under Segall's own name (just the Record Store Day TY REX covers album), FUZZ II does plenty fine enough to tide over the fanatic. And it's a double album! But really, a few ideas get rehashed by side 3, and it ends with a 14-minute jam that doesn't connect, so... really, it's a single album with bonuses.<br>Metz, METZ II<br>-- OH MY HEAD AND NECK THE BANGING YES OW YES</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159972010-06-27T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 14 - "Sweetest Day"<p>Another in the holiday calendar series, this is of and for Kerry my sweetest. Not so afraid of love songs after all, I guess.</p>
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<p>Sweetest Day<br> <br> On one 3rd Saturday of October<br> the candy came to those with none<br> A generous spirit trumped being sober<br> And Sweetest Day had just begun.<br> <br> This is the 15th day of July<br> New message here, a bell has rung<br> It's a sweet day to become your new guy<br> My sweetest days have just begun<br> <br> I was sure I would never do this again<br> And I was wrong and I am blessed<br> So let's go out and pay for some Piper<br> 'Cause I knelt down and you said "yes"...<br> <br> ...on the 26th of September<br> A new ring for the prize I've won<br> This is the sweetest day I remember<br> My sweetest days have just begun<br> <br> I was sure I would never do this again<br> And I am blessed to be so wrong<br> One year and three days have gone flying<br> now arm in arm we two go on<br> <br> So on the 29th of September<br> We wed by a red sleepy sun<br> This is the sweetest day, but remember<br> Our sweetest days have just begun<br> <br> This is the 3rd day of December<br> Another new song newly sung<br> This is the sweetest day I remember;<br> the next sweet day is soon begun.</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159962010-06-24T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 13 - "Hip Bones"<p>In those dark pre-Christina-Hendricks-on-MAD-MEN days of 2006, I spat this song out of frustration with a culture that seemed to be literally starving out a generation of the young and talented. But... a straight guy ranting about female body image issues in pop culture is automatically suspect, isn't it? Also, I probably should've known better than to go topical about young Hollywood -- the references date the song immediately. Hopefully it's taken in the spirit it's given: that real women are awesome just like they are; that it's sick to tell your society that starvation is the standard of beauty; and that if one is what one eats, being frightened to eat says frightening things about what one's been emotionally fed. (P.S.: at one point, I wanted to invent a character named Emaciation Jones. Dibs.)</p>
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<p>Hip Bones<br> <br> I'm sick of looking at your hip bones --<br> at every actress / model / heiress<br> who takes her orders straight from Paris...<br> When will the industry please spare us<br> their emaciation jones?<br> I'm sick of looking at your hip bones.<br> <br> I'm sick of looking at your hip bones --<br> as every waify, strafey richie<br> goes blase' goosestep-strutting, which we<br> choose to misread as fierce or bitchy,<br> not misguided, tragic clones<br> I'm sick of looking at your hip bones.<br> <br> I'm sick of looking at your hip bones --<br> Kiera, we dream about you nightly,<br> but oh, your skeleton's unsightly<br> atop a pirate ship of fright; we<br> would fill your treasured chest with scones.<br> I'm sick of looking at your hip bones.<br> <br> What did a burger ever do to you?<br> What did a pizza ever do to you?<br> What did a french fry ever do to you?<br> What the hell did your parents do to you?<br> How can our culture keep on killing you?<br> <br> I'm sick of looking at your hip bones.<br> I guess it started back with Twiggy,<br> but she's a long way since "Shindig;" she<br> might be size 6 – is that now piggy?<br> Lay off the Botox, all you crones,<br> And get some marrow in your hip bones.</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159952010-06-23T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 12 - "32"<p>The 32nd piece I worked on with my digital 16-track is an instrumental using the Moog MG-1 into the Boss GT-3 "riff" setting, while also recording a raging thunderstorm through the window. "32" is also the title because of a reference dating back to the first band I was in during college (Gordian Knot). Our drummer, Steven Cherry, wrote a beautiful lyric about space and titled it "32" because 32 is the ASCII numerical code for a single space. I set that to music (which is completely unrelated to this "32"). Since this current piece is also spacey in nature, the fact that it was "Song32" on the 16-track display was too good a coincidence to pass up.</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159942010-06-20T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 11 - "Water From A Bourbon Glass"<p>This song came quickly and in a single piece, as if straight from the hangover of Athena. For those of you that don't like puns, here are some puns... with booze! </p>
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<p>Water From a Bourbon Glass<br> <br> Over, hung over<br> Well, I'm over whether I was hung last night<br> The case is packed<br> She may be stacked, but stocks have sunk<br> Over, hung over<br> but the doggy hair might hold me til tonight<br> and so I think<br> it's time the drink & I got drunk<br> <br> it all floats up from my disturbin' past<br> I'm drinking water from a bourbon glass<br> <br> Water, need water --<br> well, I need it 'cause of all the rot last night<br> as glass gets stains,<br> the memory wanes, the wax is mess<br> Memory, sweet memory,<br> I watch you wash away and wash away last night<br> Kentucky fried<br> burn to one side, burn nonetheless<br> <br> no southern comforts for my urban ass<br> I'm drinking water from a bourbon glass<br> <br> Jim and Basil, and Old Weller<br> give four roses to this feller<br> Elijah, Evan, Ezra, Elmer, Sam<br> Another plan that I may botch<br> but something no one else can scotch<br> so trace the buffalo, who gives a damn?<br> <br> Water, sweet water --<br> well, it's sweet because of what I had last night<br> The wheat was high<br> Some jokes were wry but most were corn<br> Water, sweet water --<br> comfort me after the way I got last night<br> I found the note<br> that's all she wrote, a death reborn<br> <br> but there's one last thing that I've gotta ask:<br> was that her bourbon in my water glass?</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159932010-06-17T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 10 - "Break"<p>"Break" is another in a long line of cases where a lyric gimmick tricks me into revealing my state of mind. I'm grateful that I'm still this subconsciously gullible after 23 years of writing songs -- many of my favorites have come out of this kind of origin.</p>
<p>In this case, it's simply that that the word 'break' is a sharp percussive call all on its own as well as being part of a variety of common expressions, leading me to try shoehorning as many of them in one song as possible. </p>
<p>In the end, it turned into a rather forceful pep talk to myself, a mirror held up with reminders of breaks past (both interpersonal and psychotic).</p>
<p>The verse riff and melody appeared in a dream on 12 September 2009. Two days later, I premiered the song as an acoustic number at the Flossmoor Station Brewing Company.</p>
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<p>Break<br> <br> One day I found that I'd wasted all<br> the terrible things in my mind<br> So I looked around and replaced it all<br> with whatever else I could find<br> I started trying to taste it all,<br> the love and the food and the drink<br> But nothing could nourish the place that all<br> the guilt filled right up to the brink<br> <br> But it felt like enough<br> I began to feel tough<br> Until the break<br> <br> Free to no longer be chaste at all<br> I tried to run all amok<br> Shocked that I didn't get maced at all<br> I only managed a fa-fa-fafa-fa...<br> I thought I'd only debase it all<br> -- like cold eyes had lectured me once,<br> as if I had used no toothpaste at all --<br> at hedonism, I'm a dunce.<br> <br> Why can't it be enough<br> to fall headlong in love<br> and take a break?<br> <br> break out<br> break in<br> break glass<br> break wind<br> break fast<br> break up<br> break down<br> break<br> <br> Pointlessly pumped up the pace, did all<br> the things that they told me to do,<br> And still I could never have braced it all<br> enough that it wouldn't fall through<br> As much as I thought I'd erased it all,<br> the pencil smudge won't disappear<br> So I guess it's time that I faced it all<br> to lose my illusion of fear<br> <br> Self-hate's long past its shelf<br> date, so I'll give myself<br> a fucking break.<br> <br> -- Dolph L. Chaney, 12th Sept 2009, 8:30am (music for the verse arrived in a dream); 13th Sept 2009, 6:06pm; 14th Sept 2009, 7:05pm</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159922010-04-14T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 9 - "Ms. Papathanassiou"<p>This song started when I realized I'd never written a song that prominently featured me singing "ooooooo." So I decided I would, and what would be good to rhyme with "ooooo"? "Papathanassiou," the surname of Aphrodite's Child keyboardist, Jon Anderson collaborator, oh and Oscar-winning composer Vangelis. While I'm at it, why not also the birthname of Yusuf Islam, before he was Cat Stevens -- Steven Dimitri Georgiou? Then, I asked myself, what else is Greek in my mind? Alex Karras (hence Papadapoulos). Also, Indianapolis -- home of the Butler University Bulldogs and beloved town of my upbringing.</p>
<p>This song is a trifle. I file it alongside "Going Steady" from CLIMBING MOUNTAIN TIME -- tiny little flighty songs that were more fun during writing than at any other time. But sometimes those are the ones that listeners like the most, so who knows...</p>
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<p>When you say "it's all Greek to me", <br> I know what you mean, and then <br> I think you won't talk to me <br> unless I'm Athenian <br> <br> Ooooooooooo <br> Ms. Papathanassiou <br> I just don't know what to do <br> but I want you <br> Ms. Papathanassiou <br> <br> I'm just a grecophile Anglo kid <br> from Indianapolis <br> I wish to Zeus my last name <br> was Papadapoulos <br> <br> Ooooooooooo <br> Ms. Papathanassiou <br> I sure haven't got a clue <br> but I want you <br> Ms. Papathanassiou <br> <br> I bet you get this all the time -- <br> are you related to Vangelis? <br> And when Chariots of Fire came out, <br> did you go to Los Angeles? <br> <br> Ooooooooooo <br> Ms. Papathanassiou <br> I'm no Steven Georgiou <br> but I want you <br> Ms. Papathanassiou <br> <br> 8/28/06 <br> 1/18/09</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159912010-04-14T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 8 - "41"<p>Drum solo!!! Err, not really, just a beat that I never ended up using for anything else, repurposed as a transition to "side 2" of the album. In my dreams, this will end up sampled and tweezed by some famous rapper and I'll make $41 dollars in royalties.</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159902010-04-05T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 7 - "Thanksgiving"<p>I've been writing songs about various holidays for many years -- some day it's likely that my Greatest Hits album will be a calendar...</p>
<p>This is the first song I've ever written starting from a Facebook status update. "<strong>Dolph Chaney</strong> has a big bird brining in a bucket." (Which I did -- a 21-pounder to feed us and the in-laws.) As soon as I wrote that, I started bopping all around the house saying "big bird brining in a bucket" to myself, and in less time than it takes to make a pot of gravy I had the song.</p>
<p>______________________</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thanksgiving</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Got a big bird brining in a bucket</p>
<p>Got a big bird brining in a bucket</p>
<p>Got a big bird brining in a bucket</p>
<p>And I'm thankful that I do</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Got a safe house sitting in a suburb</p>
<p>Got a safe house sitting in a suburb</p>
<p>Got a safe house sitting in a suburb</p>
<p>And I'm thankful that I do</p>
<p> </p>
<p>But mostly</p>
<p>I thank you</p>
<p>for you</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Got rutabagers, taters and tomaters</p>
<p>Got rutabagers, taters and tomaters</p>
<p>Got rutabagers, taters and tomaters</p>
<p>And I'm thankful that I do</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Got a good dog giving me her belly</p>
<p>Got a good dog giving me her belly</p>
<p>Got a good dog giving me her belly</p>
<p>And I'm thankful that I do</p>
<p> </p>
<p>But mostly</p>
<p>I thank you</p>
<p>for you</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Got cranberries cryin' in the crisper</p>
<p>Got cranberries cryin' in the crisper</p>
<p>Got cranberries cryin' in the crisper</p>
<p>And I'm thankful that I do</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Got kittycats curlin' up and cuddlin'</p>
<p>Got kittycats curlin' up and cuddlin'</p>
<p>Got kittycats curlin' up and cuddlin'</p>
<p>And I'm thankful that I do</p>
<p> </p>
<p>But mostly</p>
<p>I thank you</p>
<p>for you</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Got a fine funny fun-filled family</p>
<p>Got a fine funny fun-filled family</p>
<p>Got a fine funny fun-filled family</p>
<p>And I'm thankful that I do</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Got a beauty love calls me her bucket</p>
<p>Got a beauty love calls me her bucket</p>
<p>So I’ll take the turkey from the bucket, give it to the bucket</p>
<p>And be thankful that I do</p>
<p> </p>
<p>- Dolph L. Chaney, 25<sup>th</sup> November 2009</p>
<p> </p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159892010-03-03T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 6 - "So Where Were The Spiders?"<p>Here's me trying to laugh through my anxiety attacks. Most of my immediate family has dealt with anxiety disorders; I've fought them since I was 13. At the most anxious periods in my life, I have experienced hallucinations, many involving spiders. This is not hypnogogic / hypnopompic, which occur during sleep or awakening -- this was during regular daily activities. </p>
<p>During a particularly tough stretch in 2002-2003, I was rather frequently hallucinating that the people around me were turning into person-sized spiders, wearing clothes, often driving oncoming cars. One day after such an episode, Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" came up on shuffle play, and after David sang the line that became this song's title, I laughed. A lot. For several minutes. Where WEREN'T the spiders? So I started writing a list of where the spiders were.</p>
<p>I wrote the chorus/turnaround in '09 to finish it.</p>
<p>_________</p>
<p> </p>
<p>SO WHERE WERE THE SPIDERS?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>In my chair</p>
<p>In my hair</p>
<p>I see spiders everywhere</p>
<p>On my door-</p>
<p>Knobs and floor</p>
<p>I freak out like a crackwhore</p>
<p>Super-big</p>
<p>Dancing jigs</p>
<p>Even as they write “Some Pig”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I don’t like the way</p>
<p>They trap their prey</p>
<p>In the webs of lies they say</p>
<p>‘Cause it reminds me of you…</p>
<p> </p>
<p>In my place</p>
<p>In my face</p>
<p>On some album art by Space</p>
<p>Drunk in bars</p>
<p>Driving cars</p>
<p>(that’s how they got here from Mars)</p>
<p>In my dreams</p>
<p>Sewing seams</p>
<p>Plotting deaths and graves and schemes</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I don’t like the way</p>
<p>They wrap their prey</p>
<p>In the webs of lies they say</p>
<p>‘Cause it reminds me of you…</p>
<p> </p>
<p>At the mall</p>
<p>On my wall</p>
<p>Crawling up towards my left ball</p>
<p>On my toe</p>
<p>In my fro</p>
<p>Right by my office window</p>
<p>In my veal</p>
<p>As I squeal</p>
<p>Who cares if they are not real?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I don’t like the way</p>
<p>They poison their prey</p>
<p>With the venomous lies they say</p>
<p>‘Cause it reminds me of you…</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159882010-02-08T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 5 - "Afraid Of Love Songs"<p>It started as a joke. I just couldn't resist the idea of singing a love song about refusing to sing love songs because of love-song phobia. Then I fleshed it out with references to other phobias and superstitions, and in final form it's about the superstitions people add to romance.</p>
<p>My wife says this is my "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."</p>
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<p>I've always been afraid of love songs.<br>Like a camera to a tribesman,<br>I would rather turn down bribes than<br>steal the soul of this love.<br><br>So you'll just have to get used to the fact that<br>I'm never gonna sing the words 'I love you'<br>I'll have to find another way to tell you<br>and compel you to my arms<br>and though I know that rhymes with 'charms'<br>I won't<br>'cause I've always been afraid of love songs.<br><br>I tread with extra care near love songs.<br>I don't want to be the one to<br>make the terminal affront to<br>break the back of this love.<br><br>So you'll just have to get used to the fact that<br>I'm never gonna sing the words 'I love you'<br>I'll have to find another way to tell you<br>and impel you to my side<br>and though I know that rhymes with 'bride'<br>I won't<br>'cause I've always been afraid of love songs.<br><br>I've always been afraid of love songs.<br>Like a hammer to a mirror<br>If I shatter, trapped in fear or<br>loathing if I break this love<br><br>So you'll just have to get used to the fact that<br>I'm never gonna sing the words 'I love you'<br>I'll have to find another way to tell you<br>and propel you next to me<br>and though that rhymes with 'sexually'<br>I won't<br>'cause I've always been afraid of love songs.<br><br>I'm never gonna sing the words 'I love you'<br>'cause I've always been afraid of love songs.<br><br></p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159872010-02-04T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 4 - "37"<p>One of 3 short interstitial instrumentals I used to break the album into sections. Telecaster --> Boss GT-3 --> board. Basically one marching chord, with a couple of mutations. The title is because this was the 37th song recorded on my Fostex 16-track system.</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159862010-02-03T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 3 - "Queen For A Day"<p>Did you think I'd forgotten you? Never fear. Just dealt with a mind-fogging cold and some other energy drains for a few weeks. Back to comments about the tracks on GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA.</p>
<p>"Queen For A Day" started with the idea behind the 3rd verse. Having grown up in an environment that was, shall we say, less than friendly to gay folks, I now find myself blessed with GLBT friends as well as straight ones. And, coming from whence I have, and eager to please as I am, I sometimes find myself feeling like I could understand my queer friends' perspective better somehow. As with so many things, I occasionally go to the point of overcompensation, which is not actually what anyone wants out of me. If they're friends of mine, they want to be friends with ME, being natural -- just as I want them to be themselves. </p>
<p>Naturally, as I wrote this, I then began overthinking about my overthinking. Would this sentiment be offensive to my friends somehow? </p>
<p>But I worked the idea over by writing the first 2 verses about HRM QEII and the authors of "Radio Ga Ga", then eventually I pulled my head out and finished the 3rd out by transitioning it to a tribute to the queen of my castle. (Aw.)</p>
<p>Perhaps an awful lot of fuss for a breezy little 2-minute wonder -- but I like how it turned out.</p>
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<p>Queen For A Day<br><br>I'd like to be the Queen for a day<br>though I might have to shave<br>raise my scepter and wave<br>send Camilla and Chuck away<br><br>But I know that's a farce --<br>I'm a regular arsehole Yank<br>I'm not even from Queens<br>and I haven't got beans<br>in the mattress or stocks or bank.<br><br>I'd like to be in Queen for a day.<br>With Taylor, Deacon & May,<br>I'd get together and play<br>and firmly free the bad compa-nay...<br><br>But I know that's a laugh --<br>I've got half of the chops I'd need,<br>I'm no showman to boot,<br>and my chestless catsuit<br>would make all the front row's eyes bleed.<br><br>I'd like to be a queen for a day --<br>not to lay with some guys,<br>just to see through your eyes<br>and be a better Friend O' Gay.<br><br>But I'd never succeed<br>'cause the one that I need's my wife<br>and I don't need a band<br>or a royally-waved hand<br>'cause it wouldn't rule like my life...<br><br>My baby's the queen of my day.<br><br>-- 21 February 2007<br>-- 5 February 2009</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159852010-01-24T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00review at Popdose<p>Eccentric, gooey, rhythmically-challenged wanker/baby or witty, funny, clever, nicely sentimental king-to-be? You be the judge...</p>
<p>http://popdose.com/rob-smith-cant-say-no-dolph-chaney/</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159842010-01-10T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 2 - "The 5th Dementia"<p>So what is the 5th dementia, anyway? Possibly, it was the dementia that led me to think I could play this correctly on overdubs without a click track...<br><br>Generally, the lyric is about taking myself down a peg while encouraging me to keep it together and not sweat the small stuff. In typical fashion I was both proud of and repulsed by the horrid "dimension" / "dementia" puns I kept putting out there, the conflictedness delaying the completion of the song for about 3 years. I would work on it for a few days, get stuck, and move on to more natural creations. But it would simply not leave me alone, so there you have it.<br><br>The music to the bridge (the part mostly in 7/8) and chorus was written in 2006. I tried several different sets of music for the verses, most even more oblique than the rest of the song. I'm pleased with the verses as they ended up, though -- straightforward enough to allow room for a bit of wiseacre smarm in the vocal.<br><br>The fade in and fade out are overdriven guitar run through my Ibanez delay/echo on infinite repeat. Oh, and spot the sounds of a bad cable shorting out between the chorus and 2nd verse! <br><br>I have an idea for re-recording this (yes, *with* click track) with less fuzzy guitars and more space in the mix. If I do that and get it right, it'll come out as a digital single or on an EP.<br><br>__________________<br><br>The 5th Dementia<br><br>It was demented to brag about my length<br>It was demented to say my mind was wide<br>open, as if just saying gave it strength<br>as if the truth can hide the slide inside<br><br>No depth or height can stop this<br>No brains or might can top this<br><br>It's wide open season<br>It's long past overdue<br>It's high up beyond reason<br>And it is time I saw it through<br>The fifth dementia's up to you<br><br>It was demented to call myself so deep<br>It was demented to say I had the time<br>traveling on, I price my talk as cheap<br>tricks just for kids to climb the slime sublime<br><br>No length or width can pinch ya<br>don't take the fifth dementia<br><br>It's time that I embolden<br>It's long past overdue<br>It's wide open and golden,<br>solid and high like Ms. McCoo<br>koo-koo but absolutely true<br>the fifth dementia's up to you...<br><br>It's wide open season<br>It's long past overdue<br>It's high up beyond reason<br>And it is time I saw it through<br>The fifth dementia's up to you</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159832010-01-06T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - track 1 - "About Face"<p>I wrote the music for the chorus and all the lyrics for "About Face" in 2005 but never came up with a satisfactory tune for the verses. I was also envisioning it as more of a loud 90s-ish rock song originally. </p>
<p>The chorus stayed with me for years, but I didn't really come back to it in earnest until January '09, as I was starting to pull together a few nagging stray ideas. "About Face" was one of the first ones I wanted to nail down. Thankfully, the verse tune came quickly, and the song was finally written on January 27th.</p>
<p>Lyrics-wise, I see a throughline to this song from a few past ones -- "High Wire" from INFINITY DOGS, "The Mirror In Your Mind" from the very-limited-release HUMBUG GLORY, "Automatic Caution Door," and others. </p>
<p>Voice and guitar was recorded in a single live take, as with all the acoustic-only tracks on the album.</p>
<p>I think "About Face" is one of the class tracks on the record, and I'm so glad it stuck around long enough in my mind to let me finish it at last.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">About Face</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Always wallowing in plunder</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">from the treasure that it takes</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Don’t you ever start to wonder</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">why the cycle never breaks?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jab a stick between the spoken promises</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">About time that you face</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the face this is about</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">you’re turning an about face</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and it’s really a close shave</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Single, single, little vixen</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How I wonder if you are</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All the poison that you’re mixin’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leaves you close to no cigar</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The air is thick with all the smokin’ promises</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">About time that you face</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the face this is about</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but babe, it’s not about face</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that you think you can still save</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In a candy-cradled stupor</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In a frozen lake a splash</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You intended to be super</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s unhealthy; it’s a smash</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aren’t you sick of all the broken promises?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">About time that you face</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the face this is about</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Your ‘what’s-it-all-about’ face</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Don’t you take it to the grave.</p>
<p> </p>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px;">and all the lyrics</div>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159822010-01-05T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA - the title<p>The album is titled GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA from 3 of its songs: "Water From A Bourbon Glass," "Break," and "The 5th Dementia." I like the way the words sound together and the different meanings you can get by inserting various punctuation marks between the words. Some examples:</p>
<p>* "Glass break ---> dementia": Whenever I break a glass, I get demented from guilt and from the frenzy of cleaning up the broken glass.</p>
<p>* "Glass break = dementia": Somehow, my clumsiness and propensity to break glass is symptomatic of my dementia.</p>
<p>* "Glass, break dementia": A command to my glass (and whatever's in it) to break my dementia.</p>
<p>And countless others! Make your own!</p>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159812010-01-04T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA released!<p>At 11:59pm Central Time on New Year's Eve, I hit the "upload" button to put my newest album online. It arrived a few seconds after 2010 began. The album is called GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA, and I like it. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I started with a core of unfinished songs that wouldn't leave me alone, dating back as far as 5 years. While beating a few of these into reasonable shape, other new songs started showing up. All told, I ended up with 11 songs and 3 brief instrumentals to link them.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>1 About Face 3:25<br>2 The 5th Dementia 4:11<br>3 Queen For A Day 2:19<br>4 37 0:33<br>5 Afraid Of Love Songs 4:41<br>6 So Where Were The Spiders? 2:18<br>7 Thanksgiving 2:56<br>8 41 0:36<br>9 Ms. Papathanassiou 2:19<br>10 Break 2:53<br>11 Water From A Bourbon Glass 2:47<br>12 32 0:58<br>13 Hip Bones 2:51<br>14 Sweetest Day 5:06</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Several of my albums have a similar shape -- intro, songs, intermission, songs, outro. When I was planning this one, I wanted to see how a different shape might work, so GLASS BREAK DEMENTIA is Act 1, intermission, Act 2, intermission, Act 3, intermission, denouement. It's also the shortest album I've released, at just over 38 minutes. I wanted to see about putting out something at a more old-fashioned album length and scope than I've usually done. It would fit neatly on vinyl as a 12" LP or a double EP -- maybe someday...</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This is my first original album recorded using my 16-track Fostex MR-16 digital home studio, after breaking it in on my holiday album HIPPO HOLLANDAISE in 2008. Gearwise, for those of you who care, I also relied on:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>mics -</p>
<p>MXL 990 as the main vocal mic<br>Groove Tubes GT55<br>AudioTechnica Pro 4L</p>
<p> </p>
<p>effects -</p>
<p>dbx 286A (compression on all voices and most instruments)<br>Boss GT-3<br>Ibanez Smash Box<br>Ibanez Tube Screamer<br>Ibanez Delay/Echo<br>Danelectro Tuna Melt Tremolo</p>
<p> </p>
<p>instruments - same cast I've relied upon for years remain:</p>
<p>Takamine EG-10C acoustic guitar<br>Electra X260 Invicta as the main electric<br> Fender Squier Tele<br>Fender Squier Precision bass<br>Pearl Rhythm Traveler drumkit<br>and of course the infamous Realistic Moog Concertmate MG-1 synthesizer I bought in high school. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I wrote a lot of the songs on my Washburn Montgomery J-6 hollowbody and Line 6 amp, but I still haven't figured out how to make either one sound how I like on recordings...</p>
<p> </p>
<p>As usual, I sang, wrote and played everything, did all the engineering, mastering, artwork, giggling, screaming, crying, and sighing of relief. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>You can listen to it in several ways through <a href="http://www.dolphchaney.com/">http://www.dolphchaney.com/</a> --</p>
<p>* look at the very top of the page for the Flash player and hit the "play" button; it will keep playing while you browse through the site</p>
<p>* go to the "Music" section of the site to download or stream individual tracks, while reading lyrics and facts about each</p>
<p>* click the link on the main page or on the "Albums" page to download the zip file (cover art, mp3 files, lyrics) <a href="http://www.dolphchaney.com/publicfiles/Dolph_Chaney_-_Glass_Break_Dementia.zip">here</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Soon, I'll also have the album available from iTunes and many other online services, thanks to my partners at CD Baby.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>It was really fun -- hope you enjoy the results. <a href="mailto:dolph@dolphchaney.com">Let me know what you think</a>, won't you?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Watch the "News" section at dolphchaney.com or my Facebook fan page over the next few days -- I'll be blogging about each track in order, with lyrics and background info guaranteed either to enhance or ruin the experience for you permanently. And in 2010, I expect to play these songs in front of people from time to time and keep on writing new ones. Thanks for reading and listening, as ever.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Peace,</p>
<p>Dolph</p>
<p> </p>
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I also had the pleasure of playing a gig in a bar. I know, that sounds completely pedestrian -- I am a musician, and that is what they do. But... not me, so often, so far. June 3rd was a really fun night at the Horseshoe. Perhaps I can begin to work up to playing out at least annually? Dare to dream.
I feel a good energy about where my creativity is going for 2009. I walk a thin line between feeling reverent about it and flat out scared; right now, I'm leaning reverent and at times even stumbling over beyond that into the really fun irreverent creative space. I am, after all, internationally renowned as a goofball.
I'm really grateful for your encouragement and good wishes. May your year be filled with joy and expansion.Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159792008-11-18T18:00:00-06:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GUMSHOE KOALA now available on iTunes!GUMSHOE KOALA is now my 4th album available from iTunes! See <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=293182713&s=143441">the iTunes Store</a> for your downloading pleasure.Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159782008-10-08T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00GUMSHOE KOALA now available on eMusic!Yes, that's right -- in addition to downloading <a href="http://www.dolphchaney.com/products.html">directly from me</a>, you now also have the option of using your credits at the fabulous eMusic for GUMSHOE KOALA. The eMusic page also gives you handy 30-second preview clips, in case you're somehow a reader of this blog who's managed never to hear what I sound like. <a href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Dolph-Chaney-Gumshoe-Koala-MP3-Download/11297215.html">Go see!</a>Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)tag:dolphchaney.com,2005:Post/60159772008-04-13T19:00:00-05:002011-07-08T07:28:20-05:00Poll: What's your favorite Dolph Chaney album?http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/520980Dolph Chaney - Big Stir Records recording artist - MUG (2023) featuring "Mr. Eli"; THIS IS DOLPH CHANEY (2021); REBUILDING PERMIT (2020)