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Travelling Mercies

Leave the shore to the poor, and come follow me.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/21/2007
Band Members: Gary Mac - "what's up" on Tumbleweed; Jeff Lovell - guitar on Flood and Will; Roscoe - collar shaking; Jeremy - other stuff
Influences: Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, John Cougar Mellencamp, Woody Guthrie, Marah, Matthew Ryan, Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Todd Snider, U2, the Doors, Leonard Cohen, the Ronettes, the Supremes, CCR, AC/DC, the Jam, the Stones, The Cult, Danzig, Nirvana, the Replacements,Pete Seeger, Gospel, the Black Squirrels, Kyle Harvey, 80's top 40 radio
Sounds Like: The common man searching for a common song.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Travelling Mercies wants you to check out a photo on MySpace in the Concert Posters album

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...%3Cimg+ src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fa204.ac-images.myspacecdn.com%2Fimages 01%2F53%2Fm_b82fb18bd6d75740f8c70492107d9d0b.jpg%22+alt%3D%2 2+%22+%2F%3E I hope ...
Posted by Travelling Mercies on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:50:00 PST

Grace

The last two weeks have been the most awful, long, amazing, and, ultimately, illuminating of my life. People talk about purging traumatic memories, but I hope these remain at the fore of my mind for t...
Posted by Travelling Mercies on Tue, 13 May 2008 11:04:00 PST

SPS goes live (and lives)

well, i finally did it. monday night at the barley street tavern, home of the song show, i confronted my life-long fear of public performance and took the stage at their open mic. it was probably the ...
Posted by Travelling Mercies on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:50:00 PST

La Marcha de los Santos

The guitar part for La Marcha (or the majority of it, anyway) was one of the first things I composed on the guitar. I would play it often, but never knew quite what to do with it. Then I started heari...
Posted by Travelling Mercies on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:11:00 PST

Run Daddy Run

  I wrote the first 3 verses and chorus of this song over a year ago. I didn't know where to go with it, so (like a lot of my writing) I let it sit. Earlier this week, I pulled it out and r...
Posted by Travelling Mercies on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:11:00 PST

Jeff Lovell salvages spent song!

My good pal Jeff Lovell stopped by tonight and helped me resurrect an old tune, "Flood." Check it out. The mood he brings out in the added guitar is amazing; far beyond what I originally imagined for ...
Posted by Travelling Mercies on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:52:00 PST

Saturday Night lyrics

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Posted by Travelling Mercies on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:30:00 PST

flood lyrics

I don't live here anymore..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Sick and shakin', soaked through from the downpour Lexapro, Citalopram  now everybody's got a finger...
Posted by Travelling Mercies on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:17:00 PST

sons of liberty lyrics

Sons of Libertytwo white boys full of whiskey out on the run on the losing end of a race with a cannonball sun cemetery flowers ridin on the dash well I'm guessin there are things that just weren't me...
Posted by Travelling Mercies on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:16:00 PST

will lyrics

Got me a date, yeah,..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> A little showdown I'm movin' straight ahead With my head down I got a sea change Sittin' in my wheelhouse ...
Posted by Travelling Mercies on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:14:00 PST