Son of Dust, by Dr. Marigaux

Son of Dust

by Dr. Marigaux

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1.	Catfish 02:49		buy track
2.	Glory, Glory! Hallelujah! 04:02		buy track
3.	The Land that Time Forgot 03:02		buy track
4.	House Fallen Down 03:48		buy track
5.	Walk a Mile 05:04		buy track
6.	Stones 03:31		buy track
7.	Spoonful 02:34		buy track
8.	Planting Skip James 03:22	lyrics	buy track
He couldn’t live on Air Puddings Not in a serpents nest It was the Age of Preparation As they laid him down to rest Well, he got cancer where you don't’ talk about And they had to cut it off He blamed a girl in Tunica For a hoodoo she put on him when he ran off It was 1969 And the football players waved at the man who played the blues And they got it done before lunch Twenty after eleven Don’t take long to plant you Well, they sent him home to die And he said, if it would please the lord, he would stop playing blues But it was scorpions eating him alive, from the inside He could see them in his stool It was 1969 Ands seven cars followed the hearse of the man who played the blues They got him in the ground in the morning Twenty after eleven Before lunch.
9.	O Gabriel 04:36		buy track
10.	Rain on the Roof 03:48		buy track
11.	You Gotta Run 02:10		buy track
12.	Dangerous 02:33		buy track
13.	Wild Geese 04:39		buy track

about

The first record I ever brought with my own money as a teenager was a collection of 1930s blues, and I’ve had blues running around in my head ever since.

I while ago I stumbled into the abandoned Waikune Prison in the shadow of Mt. Ruapehu, and took the photos of the old chapel that provide the cover art for this album. Remembering that place became a sort of guide to the music – what music belongs in that abandoned prison chapel? Deep blues, Gospel, songs of sadness, death, and bitter love certainly, but also wry humour: laughing in the face of despair.

The first version of this album was recoded during March and April 2016, and was called Dust. But after a while it started to grate on me, so I re-recorded most of the album, this time with plenty of sax as well as guitar. I re-named it in the best B movie fashion as “Son of…” (like Son of Frankenstein, Son of Kong etc.)
And I guess we are all children of star dust anyway.

credits

released June 20, 2017

Performed by Dr. Marigaux (vocals sax, guitar, rhodes)
All songs composed by Phil Davison ©2016, except Spoonful by Willie Dixon.
Made as part of a DMA project for the University of Otago.