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FIRST SET- DEVIL IN MY POCKET  // SECOND SET- GODS AND MONSTERS                    
   
 beatrice  (j cogburn) mp3
beatrice is the name of dante's beloved, and also the muse of robert johnson's incredibly depressing ode to impotence, "phonograph blues." 
 gods and monsters
 hard but true
 hometown blues (j cogburn) mp3 
e. beck and i just can't help having complete disdain for college and professional  sports and organized religion.  this does not mean that we disdain people who waste their time with either. 
 homer
 me and the devil
 montgomery (j cogburn) mp3
i used to play this song with james spence. it took me a few years to come up with this version, which chronicles one person's rise and fall.  the first verse was sort of based on college era derrick huff and the last on post-college pre-grad. school era me.  
 new york
 rabbit  (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
i had an existential freakout in the new orleans zoo.  this ape kept pulling a shirt over her head and then communicating inscrutable things to the other apes. 
 season in hell

 

 sheep  (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
i wrote the first verse of this song in grad. school while walking back with e. beck from a place called "burritos as big as your head." she didn't think I was a weirdo. we weren't dating yet, but i was beginning to fall in love. 
 space  (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
addicts don't use drugs "recreationally," but just to feel kind of alright. 
 the man upstairs
 to die  (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
our take on a very old gospel song.
 victoria's midnight cafe (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
this is based on an event i suffered at a horrible cafe of the same name in columbus, ohio.  they are still open. 
 werewolves in their youth (j cogburn) 
based on the fantastic short story by Michael Chabon
 when bill hit roy (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
one evening, my friend (and at least borderline genius) roy cook got thrown across the room by a very angry and irrational person in larry's bar in columbus, ohio.   
 zen (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
against all evidence, we believe that the prudential and the moral overlap for all people, i.e. if people are horrible to others, then somehow they are being even more horrible to themselves ("where do bad people go when they die. . .")
 zero blues (music- j cogburn; lyrics- j cogburn & e beck cogburn) mp3
     this song used to be called "bulimia."
production note-
all songs on raw recorded live into one microphone,  onto one track , and with no overdubs.
performance-
guitars & vocals- j cogburn
percussion and background vocals- e beck cogburn
gear-
guitar- pre-gibson buyout dobro, drums- cheap and small, vocal mic- bluebird, input- presonus firepod, mixing- cakewalk sonar, mastering- T-RackS.
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