Three Days Gone — liner notes

Entire Album: Broken Easter Song / Bursting at the Seams / Grandpa’s Dream / Poet’s Paradise / Tastee Tee / Isaiah’s Song: Salvation / Come with me, My Child / Long Day’s Journey Into News / What These Hands Have Done / Noble Love / Under My Shoes / Mom and Dad / Benediction

Three Days Gone

— liner notes —

Little Label Records, DBA#

1. Broken Easter Song / New York (April 2003)

I wrote this song after hearing a story about a guy who “dried out” during Easter one year. That is, he stopped drinking alcohol during Easter and had time to let his blood clear of the influence.

2. Bursting at the Seams / New York (Fall 2000)

I played this song on the road for two or three years before I finally had a chance to put it on an album. The guts of it, the basic guitar parts, were recorded in one take with Shawn Turner on bass and me on acoustic/electric guitar. Due to time constraints, the guitar solo lines are a hybrid of about three takes, spliced into both the left and right tracks during editing. The images come from staring at a computer too long and watching a Wim Wenders film about ten years ago.

3. Grandpa’s Dream / Indiana (Spring 2002)

This recording is one guitar performance, with no over-dubbing except the vocals – the guitar sounds pretty much like it does in concert. I wanted the vocals to sound a bit like the choir I imagine each of my grandpas is enjoying now. Since I never met either of my grandpas (they died before I was born), I imagined one of them seeing the kingdom coming for him shortly before he took his last breath.

4. Poet’s Paradise / London (Summer 2002) / New York (Spring 2003)

I wrote this song fairly quickly, twice – once after visiting John Keats’ house in London and then after imagining getting a bird’s eye of Troy, New York. While I lived in New York, pictures from the opening days of the war in Iraq were everywhere. The recording is only one guitar and one vocal track, and if you listen close you can hear me singing to myself on the guitar take, pretty much like I do when I writing a song for the first time.

5. Tastee Tee / Michigan and Indiana (Summer 2001)

This song merges two stories from a road-side restaurant which is the title. The restaurant is in Cassopolis, Michigan.

6. Isaiah’s Song: Salvation / Indiana (Fall 2001)

Again, this song was recorded in one take using guitar sounds I play in concert, and highlighting Shawn Turner’s intuitive bass work. The lyrics come from reading the biblical prophet Isaiah and the book of Revelation. The visions have been in my imagination for a long time, and I continue to be

Album Notes for Three Days Gone

Last Updated

1/15/2009

Phone: 616.581.7978

E-mail: mail@jackdumez.com