Lovers Emeritus, by Larry O. Dean

Lovers Emeritus

by Larry O. Dean

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1.	Dearly Beloved 03:53	buy track
2.	Ridiculous Thoughts 05:23	buy track
3.	Half-a-World Away 04:20	buy track
4.	Dawning on Your Face 03:44	buy track
5.	The Shape of Rage 03:16	buy track
6.	First Aid (The Tourniquet Song) 02:53	buy track
7.	Other Side of the Bed 03:46	buy track
8.	What's with You? 04:12	buy track
9.	White Bread 07:27	buy track
10.	Rely 03:33	buy track
11.	A Very Good Friend Just Died 06:20	buy track
12.	Cocksure 02:38	buy track
13.	Picture of Health 04:35	buy track
14.	Oh, No 04:05	buy track
15.	Go! 05:38	buy track

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All things considered, Lovers Emeritus would've been Larry O. Dean's solo debut. Originally envisioned as a ten song, two-sided album, it is here appended with bonus tracks from the same time period (1986-1988). Having obtained a Fostex four-track recorder, and inspired by such studio mavericks as Todd Rundgren, Peter Hammill, and Emitt Rhodes, Dean dealt with the unraveling of his relationship with the woman he had moved to San Francisco to live with in these narratives, perhaps most jarringly in “Ridiculous Thoughts,” “First Aid,” and “Other Side of the Bed.” He also references one of his favorite directors, David Cronenberg, in “The Shape of Rage” (the title of a book cited in Cronenberg's The Brood, coincidentally also about the dissolution of a marriage).

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released December 2, 2014

Recorded at 473 A Studio, San Francisco, CA 1986-1988. Produced and engineered by Larry O. Dean. Mastered September 2014 by Wally Sound, Oakland, CA.

Larry O. Dean (guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards, harmonica, percussion); with Ned Doherty (bass), George Friend (guitar), Godfrey Daniel (drums).

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Larry O. Dean Chicago, Illinois

Larry O. Dean was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. His numerous chapbooks include I Am Spam (2004), a series of poems “inspired” by junk email, abbrev (2011), and About the Author (2011). A full-length collection, Brief Nudity is forthcoming in 2013. He is also an acclaimed songwriter whose most recent CD release is Fun with a Purpose (2009) with The Injured Parties. ... more

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