ANY ANYWHERE — a shaky world spinning in time | by Steve Barton
New single/video from forthcoming album 'Time Hard Won'
Portland, Oregon based Steve Barton has signed to UK label Right Track Records, distributed by Universal, and will release Time Hard Won as his first album under the new deal. The album release date is August 9th 2024 on CD and digital, with the vinyl LP scheduled for November 2024.
New single/video Any Anywhere is out July 19th 2024...
The wonderful lyrics are below. Steve Barton on his new single Any Anywhere:
“Any Anywhere was written on my piano in the front room of my house in Portland. I saw a bluebird through the window, and there really is a plastic globe of the world on the piano. I just wrote about what was happening right in front of me. What if it broke in two? The other theme is ‘The riddle of time.’ The line ‘the clocks run slow on Sunday’ had been flying around in my mind for months. Plus, I had watched a British film - can’t recall which one - where a character uses the term ‘vouchsafed’ meaning revealed or disclosed. I just had to put that word in a song! The verses are two chords, back and forth. I knew that I wanted a big chorus. Switching from the A Minor verses to G Major for the chorus does the trick.
The second verse came after watching the news on television. Some sort of mean-spirited right wing spectacle had happened. That’s where ‘the sun falls on humanity’ line comes from, referring to sunset, dusk, and the coming of night. But the verse ends on a hopeful note : When I look in your eyes / The world’s not half as cruel / Together we can fall and fly / And try to rise and rise and rise.
The song’s bridge wraps it all up, or resolves the song you might say, with words like ‘flowers’, ‘doorbell’, ‘bridge’, ‘rain’, ‘memory’. The recording ends with a mournful solo over the verse chords. This is meant to show that everything is happening everywhere at the same time - the undercurrent of emotional challenges is living among the joy of the chorus.”
Any Anywhere - Lyrics © Steve Barton
Bluebird by my window
Sings a song for you
There’s a plastic globe on the piano
Spin it til it breaks in two
The clocks run slow on Sunday
Monday comes too fast
All that the world has vouchsafed
Is that now is gonna be the past
Chorus:
Calling your name now
The riddle of time
Your voice of heartbeats
Echoes and chimes
Through your mask I see you there
I’d recognize you anywhere
I’d recognize you any anywhere
The sun falls on humanity
Warms those ancient bones
Walk the streets like zombies
Scared of being alone
When I look in your eyes
The world’s not half as cruel
Together we can fall and fly
And try to rise and rise and rise
The flowers are in the garden
The doorbell rings at dawn
The broken bridge is open now
The rain is coming on
It covers us like a memory
A place from long ago
All we’ve seen and all we’ll see
All we’ve known - all we’ll know
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Details
- Single/video release date: July 19th 2024
- Single/video impact date: September 6th 2024
- Steve Barton: guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
- Dave Scheff: drums and percussion
- Produced by: Steve Barton, with Dave Scheff
- Recorded at Cully Gully Studio, Portland, Oregon
- Dave Scheff’s drums recorded by Robert Preston at Get Reel Productions, San Francisco
- Mixed by: Michael Smith, RYP Recordings, London
- Mastered by: Andy Baldwin, Metropolis Mastering, London
- Label: Right Track Records
- Distribution: Universal
About the album
The upcoming album Time Hard Won was recorded in Portland, San Francisco and Nashville, and mixed and mastered in London, UK. Steve Barton co-produced seven of the tracks with Dave Scheff, and Ron Fair produced three tracks in Nashville.
This is Barton’s fourth album since he moved to hotbed musical haven Portland, Oregon. The ‘Portland quartet’ also includes New Blue World (2017), Tall Tales & Alibis (2018), and Love & Destruction (2021). Barton has previously lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco. For more info...
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