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Rob Schnapf was the engineer on the tracking sessions and he left the area before I got around to mixing the record. Once I finished recording this project I had to gather funds to finish mixing and mastering but I had also started another project with Steve Brigida, Steve Cooper and Peter Bonta. That was the album "A Little Romance".
I was getting anxious to get a different set of ears on the song "You" so I sent the two inch muli-track to him in California. Months and months later I got mixes on this song and another called "The Grindstone". Rob had put some fairy dust on the song and edited it down. The only copy of this arrangement and mix came to me on a Beta hi-fi tape and there is some digital chatter on it and possibly it could be reduced but there is always a fidelity price when you do that. I liked everything he did on it even shortening it, but by the time I got it the song had been mixed, reworked, mastered and sent to the record company.

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You showed me the well
Made me pull the bucket up
Put the ladle up to my mouth
Made me drink it up
When I came to the stars
Looked like they were falling
And you were nowhere
When I was calling you.

You on your broken bike
Headed downtown
I met you by the river
We flagged a motorboat down
You typing my poems
By the window in your room
Me dictating letting go
Of all of my balloons for you

How quickly you ran away
I thought I heard you say it's been nice
Knowing you

You told me a story
About an accident
A young boy and a girl
Who never knew what it meant
You took the little one
What did you do
Your mother said you ran away from him
I said no, she ran away from you

Well I waited for a letter
Some kind of nice word or sign
But I never heard from you

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from The Human Wilderness - Alternate Mixes Arrangements & Songs, released May 10, 2017
John Jennings- Guitar, Organ
Robbie Magruder- Drums
Rico Petrucelli-Bass
Rob Schnapf-Guitar and fairy dust
Jeff Smith -Guitar, Vocals

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Inspired and influenced by early country, blues, rock and pop
Jeff Smith writes songs and tells elongated and elliptical stories about them. Jeff's Appalachian drawl slides in and around his guitar playing and Smith says “on a good night the stories and songs swing on top of a funky kind of country blues pop stomp”. Now residing in the swamps of Virginia, Smith performs club gigs and
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