Last Of The Great American Menstruals, by Oren O'Blivion

Last Of The Great American Menstruals

by Oren O'Blivion

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1.	Nobody Can Live Without Love 03:20	info	buy track
2.	Don't Know What To Do With Myself 04:10	info	buy track
3.	I Wish I Was The Rain 02:51	info	buy track
4.	Things She Do 03:28	info	buy track
5.	Lying Next To You 04:40	info	buy track
6.	The Bandit & The Desert Rose 03:36	info	buy track

about

You know how it is, earlier today I was walking around with a song stuck inside my head, just trying to figure out where it was from.
Tom Petty? Dwight Twilley? Joseph Arthur? And then, when I was halfway to the river, I realized it was one of the songs Oren Bloedow sent me. “Nobody Can Live Without Love.” Brand new, fresh out of the oven, but it felt like it had always been there.

That’s the thing about Oren.
He knows where songs live.
“I Wish I Was The Rain.”
“Lying Next To You.”
He goes to their cafe early, gets there before Van Morrison or Richard Thompson can stop by and coax a few of them into their pockets. So he gets some of the best ones, gets them early, before they have any fingerprints on them.
His songs fit onto a playlist from 1975. Or onto a playlist from next week.
Outside of time. And totally inside.

Oren can play guitar with the best of them, and when he plays with Elysian Fields, Antibalas or Me’shell Ndegeocello, he can turn his guitar inside out, set the controls for the heart of the sun and never look back. But here, the songs are quiet and open, so vulnerable you keep looking for band-aids for them. But they swing in their own quiet way.

They get inside your head.
And stay there.

— Brian Cullman

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released July 3, 2022

featuring Adam Minkoff, Sean Dixon, Byron Isaacs, Dana Lyn, Rob Jost, Alec Spiegelman, Raphael McGregor, Chris Bruce, Manuel QuIntana & Rachel Swaner.

Recorded and Produced by Danny Blume at Hidden Quarry Studios Bearsville NY

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