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Practical Sadness

by Kate Tucker

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1.
Anybody's Business 03:14
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ANYBODY’S BUSINESS Billy and Michelle Have little in common Except billions of their cells Got together and they bonded Billy’s my best friend But his love history is despicable A bunch of complicated kooks Beautiful nemesis specifically It’s not It’s not not It’s not anybody’s business Betty and Louise Are pillars of symmetry Betty’s hard to please So naturally Louise They got out of Bristol On someone’s else’s dime So Betty and Louise Are living on borrowed time It’s not It’s not not It’s not anybody’s business Billy and Michelle Betty and Louise They met at a party All thanks to me Michelle and Louise Got together on a tease Betty bit her tongue Before you know it there were none But Billy and me It’s not It’s not not It’s not anybody’s business
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In Your Arms 04:19
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IN YOUR ARMS Honey what’s come between us Buildings burning down That thing in the elevator Well I just wanted out If they come to find you And you fall in their hands I will go there with you To find myself again In your arms in your arms in your arms In your arms in your arms in your arms Where I can feel you breathing And I don’t feel the end In your arms in your arms in your arms Guns and badges numbered Impossible arrest I lost you in the thunder Lightning in my chest But who could come between us Three thousand of them dead The nightmare we were living It wasn’t in my head In your arms in your arms in your arms In your arms in your arms in your arms Where I can feel you breathing And I don’t feel the end In your arms in your arms in your arms Where I can feel you breathing I feel it all again In your arms in your arms in your arms Crushed velvet Won’t you take me down Closed circuit On the floor now Crushed velvet Won’t you take me down Closed circuit On the floor now On the floor now On the floor
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What's Left of My Heart 03:40
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WHAT’S LEFT OF MY HEART Somehow I lost direction And the wrong looked right Caught in the headlights Of a godforsaken night In the eyes of my country In the eyes of my Lord I was nobody’s hero What was I shooting for I know it’s not easy But it can’t be that hard I don’t know where we’re going But it can’t be very far I’ve got my reasons I never learned to play the part But I’ll give you what’s left of my heart I’m a born believer I wear that cross I hope the good Lord receives me But I’m afraid I’m lost Hold me closely You’re all I’ve got It took a war to show me What love can cost I know it’s not easy But it can’t be that hard I don’t know where we’re going But it can’t be very far I’ve got my reasons I never learned to play the part But I’ll give you what’s left of my heart I know it’s not easy But it can’t be that hard I don’t know where we’re going But it can’t be very far Besides I’d go any distance With you driving the car And I’ll give you what’s left of my heart Yeah I’ll give you what’s left of my heart I want your love I want your godforsaken love
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It's True 03:06
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IT’S TRUE I was born with this world in mine Running down a dream I ran out of time Somewhere along the road I must have missed a sign I had no one to father me I built my own empire and lost the key If you can look right through me, tell me what you see It’s true it’s true Yeah I look a lot like you It’s true it’s true it’s true I look a lot like you Catch your eye in the subway light Flashing like a photograph in the night I may be strange but I was born to be alright It’s true it’s true Yeah I look a lot like you It’s true it’s true it’s true I look a lot like you In the mirror on the wall I saw you In the mirror looking out I saw my own kind of face It’s true it’s true Yeah I look a lot like you It’s true it’s true it’s true I look a lot like you
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Devil Think Twice 02:37
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Dying on the Dance Floor 04:32
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DYING ON THE DANCE FLOOR Was it a dream In violence love is extreme When I am clean I never say what I mean There’s no such thing as tomorrow There’s not much left of today You know all this joy and sorrow Is gonna slip away I’m not gonna die while I’m dancing tonight No I’m not gonna die on the dance floor I guess I got fucked up On my own personal love Or drugs, could be the drugs Oh honey I’ll let you be the judge It’s high time I got my shades on And who knows if it’ll last But the future’s looking brighter Than the past I’m not gonna die while I’m dancing tonight No I’m not gonna die on the dance floor It’s high time I got my shades on And who knows if it’ll last But the future’s looking brighter Than the past I’m not gonna die while I’m dancing tonight No I’m not gonna die on the dance floor Spin your partner round and round Round and round Every step one closer to the end I’m not gonna die while I’m dancing tonight No I’m not gonna die on the dance floor
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Whiskey Mouth 04:03
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WHISKEY MOUTH Phonograph Pale music and one-night stand No one knew that it was leading to A shotgun wedding I confess I am never gonna be your best Your daddy’s suit and my mama’s dress There’s no use regretting What I can’t work out Is how we live without The things we say We don’t need today What I live without I don’t talk about Because it hurts Too much say Save it for another day Sour mash Drank my heart into a head on crash Heavy feelings that I can’t hold back I don’t think we’ll make it Whiskey mouth Who’s fooling who I can’t get out There’s a special kind of feeling now Hitting the pavement What I can’t work out Is how we live without The things we say We don’t need today What I live without I don’t talk about Because it hurts Way too much say Save it for another day Tell me what it is I’m missing All that static on the line You got reasons well then give em And I will give you mine A little piece of mind What I can’t work out Is how we live without The things we say We don’t need today What I live without I don’t talk about Because it hurts Way too much say What I can’t work out Is how we live without The things we say We don’t need today What I live without I don’t talk about Because it hurts Way too much say Save it for another day
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4th of July 03:14
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4TH OF JULY Snake river canyon speed freak I dare the devil to make a mess I’m not afraid of anything Except a white wedding dress I limped over to the station Like some banged up alley cat Somebody called me sweetheart So I hit em with a baseball bat It’s the Fourth of July I’m gonna take you so high It’s the Fourth of July You’re a speed freak baby Well so am I You got this thrill junkie howling Watch me fly right through the air You can be the one spectator Run your fingers right through my dirty hair It’s the Fourth of July I’m gonna take you so high It’s the Fourth of July You’re a speed freak baby Well so am I I’m pure American A true believer Honey, I’ve got Everything you need Drill the diamond from the copper Anaconda got my love Gonna steal it from the midnight walker Evel comes from above One Clearwater morning They will call me Call me home Heart attack fever And the rubber hits the road It’s the Fourth of July I’m gonna take you so high It’s the Fourth of July You’re a speed freak baby Well so am I
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When We Were Young 03:19
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WHEN WE WERE YOUNG When we were young We swam where we are now Your eyes were starry nights The water deep And we dove down Our t-shirts on We drank ourselves to sleep Prayed God our souls to keep With the whiskey We passed around We didn’t care about All the things that matter now When we were young When we were young Ohio River bank The storm came in I took your hand And made you mine Here we are now Caught in the memories Missing the nights We don’t remember We can’t forget We didn’t care about All the things that matter now When we were young You gave me your heart out on the water I gave all I could, you wanted more You’re all I ever cared about I can’t let this flame go out Love like lightning coming down Bring us back to what we found When we were young
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Blue 02:05
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BLUE Oh your poetic face Born with every heartbreak Written on it Lost in a cold embrace Cemetery night Forever haunted You want something And I want something So we made something Out of nothing Gold is a funny color Fades into the night Without a warning Blue an elusive lover Rising with the light Gone in the morning You want something And I want something So we made something Out of nothing How am I to see How am I to know Who’s the first to go How are we to know When you want something And I want something So we made something Out of nothing
 Blue like a fever burn You can’t bring back the dead For all your crying Blue I looked out for you Some things never change There’s no use trying
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All I Ever Wanted (bonus track) 03:59
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ALL I EVER WANTED Emergency medical I guess somebody must have Made the call I’m hanging on I’m hanging on I’m not used to the attention Now I can’t say my name out loud Can you hear me now Cause I can’t hear me now I guess all I ever wanted Was to love and not be haunted Crybaby left over an hour ago The sun set like a picture show All the pretty horses coming down I guess all I ever wanted Was to love and not be haunted Make make believe In the whispering waves It was beautiful and strange It was beautiful and strange Somebody’s praying in the waiting room There’s an ocean in the window view Reach out to touch it and I’m gone I guess all I ever wanted Was to love and not be haunted

about

Kate Tucker is a songwriter, singer and producer from Akron, Ohio. Growing up in a family of truck drivers, Tucker became
acquainted with the American road from an early age. A sense of place, space, home, and the vast unknown continues to inform her work in both mood and lyric. Perhaps this frequent travel set in motion what would become her own musical journey, cutting her teeth in Cleveland rock clubs, moving to France to busk in the streets of Paris, setting off for Seattle to start a band, only to hit the road again for NYC, and end up in Nashville, Tennessee.

In what Tucker calls her “toughest year yet,” she made a record that is actually not at all heavy, partly due to the nature in
which it was recorded. Low on cash and emotional energy, she decided the only way to lay down anything at all was to think
like Lou Reed. “My dear friend Kenny Childers and I had instantly bonded over our love for The Velvet Underground and our favorite thing to do together was pretend we were writing songs for their next record. We didn’t have any specific goal in mind; I knew I was going to make a new album soon, but I didn’t think I’d let myself do it this way.”

By this way, Tucker means driving up to Bloomington, Indiana to record ten songs in two days in a basement somewhere in the middle of nowhere with a handful of folks she’d never met, including Freda Love, who had taken a bus down from Chicago, sticks and snare drum in hand.

“It was fitting to return to the midwest to make this record. I had just lost my mom unexpectedly, so I’d been driving back and
forth from Nashville to Akron all summer long. I just got in the car again, almost on autopilot and ended up in Indiana instead. Kenny said at one point, ‘You know...it’s just that good old Midwest practical sadness.’ And that was it.”

credits

released April 6, 2018

Music and Lyrics by Kate Tucker and Kenny Childers
Except Anybody’s Business by Kate Tucker, Kenny Childers and Chris Kupersmith
It’s True by Kate Tucker and Preston Lovinggood
Blue by Kate Tucker
Produced by Kate Tucker, Kenny Childers, Mark Watrous and Tom Beaujour
Engineered by David England, Mark Watrous and Tom Beaujour
Mixed by Tom Beaujour
Except for All I Ever Wanted produced, engineered and mixed by Paul Mahern

Vocals – Kate Tucker, Kenny Childers
Guitars - David England, Kenny Childers, Mark Watrous, Kate Tucker, Tom Beaujour
Keys – Mark Watrous
Bass – Kenny Childers
Drums – Freda Love
Percussion – Freda Love, Mark Watrous, Kenny Childers

Except on All I Ever Wanted
Guitars - Jason Wilber, Kenny Childers
Keys - Jay Jones
Drums - Devon Ashley

Photos - Jessie English

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"Tucker has the kind of charm and charisma onstage that seasoned performers dream of. On top of that she’s got a powerful voice that’s as bittersweet as it it is silky smooth. " -Seattle Times

"We first heard Kate Tucker at last January's Sundance Film Festival, and we've been smitten with the Nashville-based singer ever since." -Esquire

"Cardigans-meets-Beach House ethereal pop." -Star Tribune ... more

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