the promise from the lie (2007)

by Joey Carbo

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1.	used to shine 02:03		buy track
2.	not our time 03:07		buy track
3.	two to die (free) 02:44		download
4.	ounce of mercy 02:28		buy track
5.	northbound 02:48	info	buy track
6.	deathbed song 05:03	info	buy track
7.	what matters here (free) 01:57	info	download
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10.	waiting around to die (CD only)
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written, performed, and recorded by joey carbo
recorded to 4 track cassette by joey at home on house arrest and a seven day drunk in the fourth week of November, 2007.
Half of the songs were written in that week.
Then, several weeks later:
Nick Douet played left speaker guitar on "northbound"
and guitar solo and b. vox on "#7"
Mixed and mastered by Nick and Joey.
(c)2007 by joey carbo (p)AdamAlmost. All rights reserved.
All music and lyrics by joey carbo
except:
"waiting around to die"
originally written by Townes Van Zandt
new arrangement & lyrics by joey.
"northbound"
music and first verse by Nick Douet
"deathbed song"
main riff and first verse by Nick Douet

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released December 25, 2007

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Joey Carbo Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Joey Carbo's solo work as well as the albums he made with both his bands -
"Yes, it's dark. But Carbo isn't intending to scare folks away from darkness, I don't think he ever is -- he's no stranger to writing songs about hopelessness and anger. He's done it with precision here, communicating specific turns of emotion, sans generalization." -C.M. Hall ... more

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