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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Four-color digi-pak with liner notes. LOW TIDE is Grammer's 11th album, but the first to feature original songs. Includes "Hole," the #1 most-played song on folk radio in February 2018, "Good Life," Grammer's tribute to her father and her most-requested song in live shows, and a reverent cover of Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting." LOW TIDE was the 9th most-played on folk radio for 2018, voted Best of 2018 by folkalley.com and Top Ten Album of the Year by Fish Records UK.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of I'll Be Here in the Morning (Single), If I Needed You (Single), American Noel (Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer), The Verdant Mile EP, Low Tide, Joy My Love (EP), Little Blue Egg, Book of Sparrows EP, and 5 more. , and , .

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words by kate cell. music by jim henry and teresa m. grammer.
© kate cell music (BMI)/moneysink music (BMI)/tracy grammer music (BMI)

lyrics

abel lives off the fat of the land
me, i got an old man’s back and a young man’s plan
ain’t gonna plow nor reap nor pray
god always liked him better anyway

you shoulda seen my brother abel
boots on the floor, hands on the table
chapter and verse of the filial fable –
i am cain

tell me who wouldn’t rather tend than plow
hell, i don’t believe in it anyhow
no justice and no world to come
heaven’s right here and me, i’m gonna get me some

i shot him through his pretty boy eye
i knew that’d make his mama cry
i ate shepherd’s pie as i watched him die
i am cain, i am cain, i am cain

i’m headed out for the land of nod
where they got themselves a different god
’cause that mean-ass god i don’t believe in
marked my head as i was leavin’

am i my brother’s keeper
i’m hell’s spy, i’m the devil’s sleeper
the seed got sown, i’m just the reaper
i am cain, i am cain, i am cain
i am cain, i am cain, i am cain

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credits

from Low Tide, released January 19, 2018
tg - acoustic guitar, vocals
lorne entress - drums
chris haynes - hammond B3
jim henry - electric guitars, mandolin, vocals
paul kochanski - bass

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Tracy Grammer Greenfield, Massachusetts

Writer. Actor. Storyteller. Singer. Multi-instrumentalist. Former head cheerleader, now a fearless navigator of the heart.

“One of the finest pure musicians anywhere in folkdom.” - Boston Globe

“A brilliant artist.” - Joan Baez

“Her gifts as a musician are like that of a painter who is a master of chiaroscuro, offering light and shadow at every turn.“ - Mary Chapin Carpenter ... more

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