"Cloak of Frogs"

Freakwater "Cloak of Frogs"

a live performance = watch here in youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9O3tNWXQpY

Cloak of Frogs

I'm sitting at this table I painted a shiny red
With a bowl full of oranges, a candle and a half a cigarette
I turn on the radio watch the tubes begin to glow
And the light flickers with the voice of one who knows

Take me to the river
Wash me in the water
He sings to me, to the fallen (water)
And I hear him singing out

I'm nervous in my skin I feel it has been read (rent)
And the mess that's seeping out
Only the devil could have sent
Wash me in the water
Get rid of the evidence
She is standing on the bank
Prayin' for water to take my breath

Take me to the river
Wash me in the water
He sings to me, to the fallen
And I hear him singing out (say do it now)

My muscles have grown weary dragging this cloak of frogs
(Now mosses have grown where he dragged in his cloak of frogs)
And I cried when the deal was struck
Oh please no gun
For I am a murderer hidden in a gasoline shroud
You were my healer you were my match
I was gonna burn this damn thing down

by Freakwater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9O3tNWXQpY

Freakwater opened for Wilco for a few shows.

 

Freakwater best exemplifies the representative traits of alt.country discussed here. Centered around the songwriting and vocal team of Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin (with bassist David Gray), Freakwater play a brand of country music that has been virtually unheard since A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter parted ways over fifty years ago. The band officially came together in 1989, recording a pair of albums on a small independent label and then switched to a slightly more prominent indie label. Their sound hangs on Bean and Irwin's emotive harmonies, acoustic guitars, and other stringed "traditional" instruments, betraying almost none of the changes in country music in the last half decade. Even electric guitars and drums are almost nonexistent on their recordings. While the women of Freakwater are indebted to early country music, citing the Carter Family and the Louvin Brothers as influences, they are not strictly country purists in the Nashville sense of the term. Bean, with her husband, has spent much of the last decade writing and performing in Eleventh Dream Day, an indie rock band far different from Freakwater. Freakwater also recently rejected a Nashville-based major label deal in favor of remaining with the indie label Thrill Jockey (which is not known for its country roster) thus strengthening their anti-Nashville image. Remaining with that label virtually assures that Freakwater albums will not be available in major retail outlets and that they will not receive exposure in traditional media. In their marketing, they also refrain from the Nashville standard; their album covers, painted by Irwin, are expressionist pieces that convey the idea of cover art as "art," a convention of rock music which was extended in the indie world.

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