… yeah, so he said you should come out with me, I have to wait for the bus, it leaves at 5 AM but there’s a bar next to the bus station, just come out with me, and I did, we went to the bar next door to the bus station and stayed up all night drinking. The bar wasn’t very nice. The people looked all gray in the bar light and most of them were just staring, not at their phones like normal people but just, you know, waiting.  And he said, yeah so I guess I’m really going, I have to go see the old man, I’m not sure how long I’ll be gone, and it made me feel bad, I didn’t really want him to have to go and I had a feeling he wouldn’t be back but I didn’t know what to say, so we talked about stupid stuff, and he looked at me with that dumb, perpetually surprised look that’s so infuriating, until finally he said well I guess it’s time, it was just before 5 and we went out to the bus and he said OK well thanks for coming out and got on the bus and found a seat and put his stuff overhead and took out a book and started to read.  And I was just standing there and he looked up and waved and then looked back at his book and the bus pulled away and I was just standing there, goodbye goodbye goodbye.  And that was it, the bus was gone, the Moron had left, goodbye. The sun wasn’t even up and it smelled like diesel fuel and I tried to remember how to get back home.

All songs written by Dennis Finnegan & Johny Blood

©Talking Bird Music BMI                     

Dennis Finnegan: Lead vocals, guitar

Myles Boisen: Guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro

Tim Rowe: Drums, percussion

Kathy Sparling: Harmony vocals

Lisa Mezzacappa: Double bass (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 12)

Steve Kirk: Electric bass (tracks 1, 7, 10)

Peter Garellick: Electric bass (tracks 6, 8, 9) 

Johny Blood: Tuba (tracks 3, 6, 12)

Lorenzo Farrell: Organ (tracks 5, 10) piano (track 9)

Dennis Cabuco: Organ (tracks 4, 12) 

Chris Grady: Trumpet (track 6)

James Crocker: Slide guitar (track 3)

Recorded and Mastered by Myles Boisen at Guerrilla Recording/Headless Buddha Mastering Lab, Oakland, CA

Produced by Myles Boisen and Dennis Finnegan

©2015 Dennis Finnegan

Photos by Paul Mueller

Available for purchase on Bandcamp