Enjoy 'The British Rape Krakow', and 'Cedar's Song', from my solo acoustic recording sessions with Dave Lang at the Lyric Theatre in Swift Current.
The ever kind and hospitable Dave Lang recorded me doing a number of new songs, and some solo versions of previously released tunes, at the old Lyric Theatre in Swift Current. Dave turned the lights down and set up two rows of chairs in front of me, each occupied by a framed photo of one of the old vaudeville stars that had played there in years past (the photos are usually on the wall in the lobby).

'Krakow' was written after a trip to said city with my girlfriend Ellen two summers ago, and the title comes from a headline of a local weekly that was translated for us by a Polish friend. The world economic collapse may have suspended or reversed some of the activity described in the song, but there will always be disparity between nations, and therefore some other foreigner stag party, in some other cheap town, somewhere, always.
'Cedar's Song' was constructed from a couple of hours enjoying the numerical and train related musings of a five year old boy in Leverkusen, Germany named Cedar, the son of good friends Thorsten and Marcia Nesch. The lyrics are 100% Cedar's words, arranged by me to fully capture the wisdom of the babe. Cedar is now 8 and has moved on to the Titanic.
Kris

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