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It's our 21st year of seasonal singles! Featuring Joe and his merry bunch of regular misfits from around the world.
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If anyone can compete with Santa for dependable holiday gift delivery, it’s Aussie musician Joe Algeri. “Happy New Year Blues,” his latest release as The JAC, marks the 21st year he’s offered a musical reflection on the season via his Egomaniac Bandcamp page. It’s currently available as a free download. As the title suggests, Algeri's new effort underscores the challenge of welcoming a new year when you weren’t particularly thrilled with the previous two.
The mid-tempo song has a hint of The Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers,” but also sports the ringing guitar and distinctive lead vocals we’ve come to expect from Algeri. His daughter Hanna Algeri and bassist Herb Eimerman add texture with their backing vocals, while drummer Stefan Johansson, violinist Lars Brusel, and lead guitarist Andy Brinkkila provide instrumental support. “Happy New Year Blues” opens with the cryptic imagery of, “In a crumbled bridesmaid dress/I tried once again and you knew best” and continues in that mode until closing line, “I don’t understand and I won’t forever more.”
Maybe the lyrics are designed to personify time or the new year itself, but whatever the meaning, it’s another fun and catchy holiday present from Joe Algeri and his mates.
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lyrics
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In a crumbled bridesmaid dress
I tried once again and you knew best
I just want to scream
When everyone has gone home
I dropped it all over your floor
I found the address and not the door
Is this how it is
For never and ever more
The heart's beating 5 minutes late
The bells will toll and I'm still waiting
I don't where I end and where you begin
So bring on the new year
Wind me up once again
Make me a shell that can mend
To repeat
To dance, to fall and fade away
Sing the blues
Smash the glass and break the curse
How could the numbers be any worse
Let me be
To hit my head to dull the pain
To screw it up the whole year end to end
To wake up dazed and confused
Like never before and nobody's news
I wish I could smile
When everyone comes back home
To jump from the first floor
And to do so for no reason at all
I don't understand and I won't
Forever more
credits
from
Just Not Quite... a Christmas Album (Vol.2),
track released December 3, 2021
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JOE ALGERI - lead vocals, guitars, glockenspiel, tambourine (AUSTRALIA)
HERB EIMERMAN - bass, backing vocals (USA)
STEFAN JOHANSSON - drums (SWEDEN)
LARS BRUSELL - violin (SWEDEN)
ANDY J. PRINKKILÄ - lead guitar (FINLAND)
Special guest:
HANNA ALGERI - backing vocals (AUSTRALIA)
Written and produced by J. Algeri
Thanks to Rob Lowe for the pic of the Horsham drive-in.
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