The Limited Edition, Longwall CD comes in a bi-fold jacket designed by Brian that includes a short history of recording the album, a personalized note, and best of all, is something real that can be held not just a thumbnail on your phone! Experience the nostalgia of a CD ;-) And ya know... the sound quality of CD is still much better than what we stream on our phones!
Glide Magazine says:
The Longwall is a lush and lonesome portrait of hardship. Largely set against a backdrop of desolate flatlands of the midwest, Granse’s songs give voice to the economically depressed, working class people of rural America to whom upward mobility is inaccessible. Melancholic chords and rich strings fill out the stories that come to life with Granse’s heartfelt voice and acoustic guitar. While the music feels deeply emotional, the presence of something larger than Granse himself looms beneath the surface.
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Journey On, with its layered visuals of rural America, explores a character's fight to survive, their subsequent passing, and the legacy left behind.
lyrics
The plow just falls in the middle of the day,
And the earth you were moving,
Goes under shade.
Alive in the wind on the rhythm of the rain,
When the creek is rising,
On the earth now green.
I bet you were a fighter,
I remember your strength.
Now you’ve earned your peace,
And you gave what you gave.
I bet you were a fighter,
I remember your strength.
Did it ease your pain?
Journey on,
If it’s just your name.
To the place of your dawn,
Oh the prairie’s grace.
Journey on,
If it’s just your name.
To the place of your dawn,
Oh the prairie’s grace.
The plow just falls in the middle of the day,
And the dust you were movin’
Holds for the grain.
Alive in the wind on the rhythm of the vane,
When the storm is rising,
And the clouds burn green.
I bet you were a fighter,
I remember your strength,
Now you’ve earned your peace.
And you gave what you gave.
I bet you were a fighter,
I remember your strength.
Did it ease your pain?
Journey on,
If it’s just your name.
To the place of your dawn,
Oh the prairie’s grace.
Journey on,
If it’s just your name.
To the place of your dawn,
Oh the prairie’s grace.
credits
from The Longwall,
track released September 16, 2022
Words and music by Brian Granse
Paul Brainard on pedal steel
Lex Browning on violins
Russ Kleiner on percussion
All other instruments are Brian Granse (acoustic guitar, vocals, bass guitar, harmonica, Rhodes electric piano)
Mixed by Brian Granse
Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering in Portland, Oregon
Brian Granse is a singer and songwriter in Portland, Oregon. He released his first EP,” 0.5,” in 2001, and then Earthrise
(2004) and American Nobody (2006). After touring and piecing together construction jobs, Granse performed full-time from 2007- 2010. Granse now teaches beat production, audio engineering, and Social Studies at an alternative high school, producing Hip-Hop with Portland youth....more
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