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Ghost Songs

by Jeremy Warden

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1.
You'll See 02:12
Everyone’s got their friends and all I’ve got is you To drag to the party til we’re both feeling blue and Everyone’s go their friends and all you’ve got is me And I’ll drive you crazy, just wait, you’ll see
2.
Boxes 03:07
You need a better way to keep me coming back Got a lot of love to give, but I need some back I need a better way to keep me on your mind While I’m out there meandering, trying to find out what I’m like I suppose that you could tell me in one night Tangled up together for about the thousandth time Feels fine I need a better way to keep you coming back Gave all of your love to me, you deserve some back You need a better way to keep me on your mind Got a lot of things to get through, but we’ll try I suppose we couldn’t solve this in one night Pack it up in boxes, put it in a thousand piles Leave it all off in the corner of my mind Where I forget to make things right
3.
Ghost Song 02:12
I think I miss you most in the morning Can’t get up, tangled up alone All alone These days I feel more ghost than man No one calls and I don’t say hello to no one No one Can you help me find a way to stay alive? This is all I know It’s hard to say goodbye, but it’s still on my mind And you should know Can you tell me why I’ve been here this whole time? I should know I should know
4.
Living Alone 04:10
I can’t tell the way you’re thinking about me Until it feels like we’d be better off living alone And at night when I’m cold, I think of when I’m old Will you still be what comes into my mind? I can’t get you out I miss you around I wish you would come back to me And now we’ve grown old and I want you to know You’ve become all the world to me Come back to me

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From Jeremy:

“Ghost Songs” is, as you might have guessed, about feeling like a ghost, and in some ways they are like little ghosts to me. For 3 years now I never really knew what would become of them, if anything. But here they are now, fully realized and staring back at me just like a photograph you had maybe hoped to forget… or a ghost. I wrote these songs in the summer of 2017 while everything around me from my relationship to the nation felt like it was being ripped away. Looking back I now know I was hitting an emotional wall or turning point. The sort of bottom people say you need to hit before you get better. And in the chaotic fog of my depression I held onto my guitar, and these humble songs whispered their way into my room to help me cope.

I had wanted to work with Holly Hansen (Zoo Animal) for a long time at this point, and although we’d collaborated in some small ways, a start to finish project was my goal. So that Fall I reached out to pitch her this “country EP”. She had been stepping further into the world of producing, and so sure enough come spring we gathered in the studio for two relaxing afternoons having fun recording acoustic guitars and rain, singing, and drinking coffee. And then - we stopped. Like that photograph, we set the songs in a box and went on with our lives. We were two hard working musicians with very full calendars! This small batch of frightened melodies with no plans and nowhere to go simply couldn’t keep up with us that year.

Or most of the next year either.

But Holly kept hard at work, and now had her own studio, Salon. So come Fall of 2019 she reached out about finishing what we started. I had also been hard at work, largely on myself, and although the thought of revisiting these old ghosts initially gave me pause and brought back awkward fears, I decided that because they had helped me once, perhaps they could return to help someone else. So we laid out what was salvageable from that long gone spring day, and enlisted our extremely talented and kind friend Zack Warpinski to play what instruments remained to be tracked (a remarkable feat to witness). We left Holly, the new caretaker of the ghosts, to work her magic, and I am very happy to share what we all made.

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released May 26, 2020

Jeremy Warden - songs, guitars, and vocals
Holly Hansen - engineering, mixing, production, backing vocals, percussion, and bass.
Zack Warpinski - pedal steel, baritone guitar, electric piano, and synthesizers

Recorded and mixed by Holly Hansen at Salon in St.Paul, MN in November 2019 and Minnehaha Studio in Minneapolis, MN in April 2018.

Mastered by Huntley Miller

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Jeremy Warden Minneapolis, Minnesota

My name is Jeremy Warden, I am a musician from Minnesota. Sometimes my "solo" music lives here, enjoy!

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