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Blues Filter Through

by MoZo

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1.
I Got the Blues (free) 03:59
war is over that’s what lennon said but only if you want it and we keep killin’ folks instead you get used to living how you do cuz war has this funny way of always filling bigger shoes joy would write a different tune, but right now i got the blues here we sit softly burning gasoline you find it in your food and in your fuel that’s full of beans we all ride on this the great Machine waking up to find out good intentions plague your dreams some folks say the wars for civil rights are fought but it’s still just men and women who can tie that precious knot and i know so many men who keep on keep on lyin’ just taking off those heavy rings when it’s convenient i remember how it felt to be confused cuz i wrote the book on feelin’ fine then still took home the blues and i was left knowin’ nothin’s ever fair standing by the highway with my thumb up in the air
2.
chop chop chop on your choppin’ block will you ever turn around and count the bodies pile up my bet is no, I said my money is on no cuz you wake up every day & you polish your blade so you don’t gotta think about yesterday and it gets so shiny that you don’t gotta be who you oughta be it’s like 1 2 3 then you’re out in a blink and you got no time to think and I watched the line steppin up to your block but I never thought to watch my back for the drop then along comes the ax in a silent little drop and that’s it you’re cut right off but if you take the time to nurse your wounds well you wake up feelin fine you wake up feelin fine you wake up feelin fine oh my my what a pity i sigh every day when i think about death cuz it’s so close by that no matter how i try, i just can’t seem to forget it and it is a shame that you play this way, what a waste of time cuz what matters now it won’t matter then in the end when we all die in the end when we all die in the end when we all die
3.
goodbye goodbye goodbye my dear take your face and pack it up cuz i don’t want to see it losin’ is hard enough without you there to be it the sign that i’ve been wastin’ all my time leaves change and then they fall when they’re on their way out it all starts out so colorful and then they all turn brown sometimes it’s beautiful but mostly it’s just sad and they wind up in the gutter, lookin’ bad
4.
Goin' Home 04:10
one more night and my days here are done and i hope that we’re goin’ home i have not seen my children in a time and I hope that they’re goin’ home all of my lovers and friends well i hope that we’re goin’ home take this pain that i have known and i hope that i’m goin’ home yeah i hope that i’m goin’ home
5.
take good care of your own and make someone your home just fold ‘em up and carry ‘em wherever you may go but just don’t lose what it is that makes you tick and tick cuz you look away a bit too long and you’re knee deep in some it does no good to just sit there waitin’ round for somebody to pull up their own chair but who’s to say what’s right or wrong anyway you’re just hanging on to anything that gets you through your day i don’t know what i’d do without you cuz we’re back to back and ready in case some blues filter through but even still sometimes they win again and again til finally you give up and throw your towel in and that’s sad to say but it’s true and there’s nothing i could do to help you see it any other way and so i don’t know what i’ll do without you
6.
On Tomorrow 03:21
one of these days i’ll wake up feelin lighter than i’ve been and I’ll walk down my road feelin fine and feelin free and i’ll sing some song that’s happier than how they seem to be these days when i don’t know just what i need so baby, will you be with me with just a red balloon to follow take me on a trip across the sea and we’ll wake up in the morning on tomorrow at some point last summer, or I guess it was the summer before i went droppin’ down like a badly skipped stone in that big ol’ muddy river in that place that you call home and you turned your back and walked after the throw oh, but didn’t you though
7.
Hello Kentucky! (free) 03:59
hello kentucky! my new friend i’ve got so many miles in me ‘for i go to sleep but i won’t be walkin’ them drinkin’ irish whiskey we gotta bring it home and drink more local and do our part for all those folks who’ll muck it up over and over again well i don’t make much money but it’s how i vote so from now on wherever i go in the u.s. of a. it’s bourbon in my veins i’d drink tullamore dew and bushmills too and powers when i’m feelin’ poor but they’re gone gone gone and i can’t drink them anymore i can hear my ancestors cryin’ up on high but while i go on by and buyin’ i’ll save that imbibin’ for some time when i’m in ireland ‘til then i’ll sit myself down with manny chou and we’ll have a beer and talk about how we’re all goin’ to hell in a basket but i’ll fill mine up with cascade hops and bottles full of that sour mash and i’ll think of something else but if it’s my last trip reserved then i really won’t have to conserve so in that case throw in a case of jameson ‘til then
8.
Kicks & Spit 07:35
my great-grandfather was an orphan he was raised on kicks and spit from one farm to the next in canada he worked up and down on the st. lawrence river and went to gardner massachusetts and that’s where he met delina it was likely he couldn’t read or write and he worked his life in the chair factories there delina was the pretty landlord’s daughter and they raised their family right, and they were right with god so it goes but time won’t crawl back on his knees to your door he just rolls up his sleeves theresa left home when she was 17 she was never seen by me she finally settled down in arizona in a desert that is dry as old bones that ache and moan on a winter day she finally laid her burden down when her crazy neighbor came around and he was found wandering the streets covered in blood mumbling ‘bout how he’d done something bad and she’d been stabbed my old man he’s fighting cancer now and it wears you down and it’s lonely and no one knows what it’s like when your insides die and your body turns on you and your mind lets go no one knows still he goes on just like the st. lawrence river and gardner massachusetts and dry dry deserts you know, they just go and go
9.
500 Years 05:05
i had my thanksgiving meal on reservation land in the fall of 2005 and this is what we’ve come to for 500 years of taking everything you want then cast the rest aside and the slot machines, they were ringing and dinging and the lights were blindingly bright and this is what we’ve come to for 500 years some tax-free cigarettes and cheap booze and beer i’d headed to new mexico to see my friends outside of santa fe this is what i’ve come to for 26 years i put my money down in that place for a pretty good buffet i was raised in Massachusetts right by the sea it’s where the wampanoag used to live but most of all that’s left of them are signs you have to read and none’ll mention this place’s other violent history most of what you’ll read about is peaceful colonies that indians shared food and everyone was friendly but the reality is that 500 years is 3 times as long as it’ll take to make whole cultures disappear but i love where i live and i keep good company and most of the time it seems like everybody’s free it’s just the government that never really represents me like back in the fall of 2004 i didn’t want to live in my country anymore so i thought about canada my neighbors to the north cuz they didn’t seem to hate as much and they never started wars or i think i might like to settle down in the south of france cuz everyone i know now they’re makin’ brand new plans while the bible belt is loosening itself to manage the weight of the united states and for every new hole that gets punched in our soul, it’s a thousand hours of toil to make it whole
10.
well i guess that's the way things seem to go things seem to go down a lonesome road and they change and they change they go by and by they go by and by and i follow with my head in my hands and nothing to say nothing to say cuz we sank and we sank and there never was a bank so far away you say you say there's money to make there's money to make and it's worth some mistakes but i rode and i rode with nothing to show nothing to show but some sorrow so i say i say that never again never again will i love you like then well the days the days they wither away they wither away in my memory and it's sad it's sad cuz that's all i'll ever have all i'll ever have to remind me of the time the time when the whole world was mine the whole world was mine
11.
everyone’s staring so coldly it’s hard to know where to begin but i’ll go on here so boldly and it might bring you in you see one day i’ll be dyin but i don’t know if i’ll know i’m dead so what is it worth to be trying to get all of this out of my head there’ll be drinks on the left and drinks on the right and everyone’s dancin’ tonight and i’ll be on by with my pie in the sky that’s where i’ll be one day when i die everyone has an arrival to some place at the end of the line i won’t be clutching a bible but i hope i’d think to bring some wine everyone has an arrival to some place where we all begin and i won’t be needing my rifle but i’ll need me a bottle of gin
12.
Class Act 04:34
You could hear the church bells ringing over the hills and fine fine ribbons of light shimmered on the land and they were so classy, the bride and her man but they’d find the bar was set so damn high that they wouldn’t get far violence and sorrow put in 2 cents or three and more things that most folks don’t ever see they had to find out the hard way around but it’s alright now, it’s alright So many years pass like a hat on the drop and what ifs and so whats, they litter the path she was pretty and restless or he’d never have asked so they go along, the bride and her man, just carrying on

about

the bulk of this album was recorded live at jack straw productions in seattle, wa on september 22nd and 23rd, 2008. it was a freeing way to make a record. mistakes are golden. in this case they were often blue.

my deepest thanks go to aimee zoe tubbs and bob rice, who helped produce these tunes from the very beginning...over long afternoons and evenings spent coaxing out nuances, trying new ideas, and familiarizing ourselves with kentucky libations, we laughed and played our way to this end. it was a special year, and i’m sure there are even brighter times ahead.

humblest thanks also to my friend joanna maria, who effortlessly brought a new kind of life to this record...you are awesome. doug haire, thanks for making the entire recording process so easy and gratifying. and michele khazak, thank you for your lovely voice...you give these songs a unique beauty. chris zasche, tom parker, joy mills, and allen & alan inc., my sincerest thanks to you all for adding your own flavors to the mix and providing the record with the honky-tonkin’, foot-stompin’, drunkard yellin’ shimmer it needed.

i’d also like to make sure to thank melissa gale for the photo sessions, van diep for all the graphics help, alia polsgrove and sustainable group for packaging, levi fuller for screen-printing, and tina hoggatt for letter pressing. thanks also to my family for all their support, and my dad for agreeing to do the phoner. this wouldn’t have happened without all of you, so thank you!

credits

released February 24, 2009

moe provencher ~ vocal, guitar, harmonica, slide
aimee zoe tubbs ~ drums, percussion, piano, glockenspiel, alto sax, vocals
bob rice ~ lead acoustic guitar, gitja, and all electric guitars
joanna maria hussain ~ bass
michele khazak ~ vocals
chris zasche ~ pedal steel
tom parker ~ vocals
joy mills ~ vocals
meg allen ~ trumpet
alan loomis ~ trumpet

recorded by doug haire at jack straw productions
additional recording by moe provencher at jsp and the bombay shelter

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MoZo began as a street busking project, a 2-person empire of politically-minded bicyclists. Moe and Aimee Zoe.

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