Name: September: California Gold
Duration: P00H04M03S
Description: No single decision I have ever made has had more beneficial resonance than the choice to move to California in 1997. I owe this state everything. This was me writing her a love song, in my best approximation of the traditional California country / West Coast Americana idiom.

September: California Gold

from MMXXI by Buck AE Down

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No single decision I have ever made has had more beneficial resonance than the choice to move to California in 1997. I owe this state everything. This was me writing her a love song, in my best approximation of the traditional California country / West Coast Americana idiom.

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The moon takes the bench and then we all rise
Adjudicating the fault lines
Separating L.A.

The bailiff swearing in-n-out the long lines
Estimated wait times
Are being measured in days

Chorus 1:
The stars gather like an audience up in the desert sky
From Bombay Beach to the astral plane tonight
While the swollen cowboys make the pilgrimage down the Grapevine
For the California Gold they’ll never find.

The Oxycontin fields of New Eureka
The warm smell of paprika
The Catalina escape

The Crystal Palace closed till further notice
Methamphetamine poets
All hide behind drapes

Chorus 2:
Huell Burney Howser died on the crossroads for your sins
As the Central Valley bends in space-time
Coalinga Cattle staring at you with blank eyes
And the condors are just vultures in disguise

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from MMXXI, released March 31, 2021
written, arranged, performed, produced, and mastered by
Buck AE Down
at Lanai Soundworks Studios
Pasadena, CA
August 2021

violin by Danny Graziani
lap steel guitar by Cody Farwell

c+p 2021 All The Way Down Music (ASCAP)

for more - visit www.buckdown.net

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Buck AE Down is an artist, writer and producer who lives in Los Angeles and who'd like to be friends with you, if that's cool.

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