The release of a new single is always exciting:you get to welcome the world to your music. It is especially so when it's the first offering of a whole new band. That happens Dec 1.
The Still A Mugs Game tour with the original Suburbs has only just finished but I'm on a charge and there's no slowing down. Most of this year I've been working with a nucleus of my muso mates Martin Cilia, Bill Beare, Lloyd Gyi and wife Nicole, aided by country specialists like Gary Brown and Clare O'Meara, to complete an album comprised of narrative (for want of a better genre) country songs. Some of these are very recent, some are demos done thirty years back but I didn't think they quite qualified as Suburbs songs, even though I have ventured into this territory before with tracks like Campus Days, Silver, North of the Equator. Little Miss Dynamite and many more.
The album 'Dirty Windscreens,Heartache and Beer' will be released Dec 29 but right now my focus is on this first track 'Stella' - a song about a good woman who gets a bad deal out of life. The song sounds jaunty and almost poppy but the sentiment is anything but.
You can stream on Apple Music, Spotify etc but of course it is much better for us if you download via Bandcamp. (the link on my Dave Warner Bandcamp page, the one above is up now. Hopefully the Rude Crew Bandcamp page - the one just here - will be operating by tomorrow)
Here is our webpage.
We have created a Facebook page for Rude Crew so please check us out. And, yes, if you are wondering we would love to do some live gigs soon.
photos here by the wonderful Bleddyn Butcher. Mastering of the track by Tony Cooper.
LYRICS STELLA (Warner-Cilia)
Stella was a good girl she made a few mistakes the biggest one of these was Joe
Joe he was a boozer a brawler and a loser but he was Stella's Romeo
Stella worked the diner to save a home deposit while Joe was in the barroom playing pool
Stella stashed her savings back of the closet she was planning even then for kids and school
Love isn't always a good thing Love can lead you astray
There'll be times when you wish to God Love never came your way
Joe found Stella's money blew it down the track Stella couldn't see through all her tears
But she believed Joe when he promised he'd make the money back and she kept believing every single year
Love isn't always a good thing Love can lead you astray
There'll be times when you wish to God Love never came your way
One day a policeman came to Stella’s trailer Joe was wanted for burglary
But Stella knew her Joseph he wasn't like that She wouldn't them take her love away
And so she picked up Joey's hunting gun And shot the policeman dead before she realised what she done
Stella went to prison washin' dishesn With vicious girls on either side
But she never blamed her Joseph she never had a cruel word until last week she never ever cried
They found her hanging above a story of how a million dollars had been won
By Stella's fella Joe and there he was with his good looking new girl on page one
Love isn't always a good thing Love can lead you astray
There'll be times when you wish to God Love never came your way