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Just Like Some Character Trapped Inside a Song

from On the Street Again by Marc Nerenberg

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This is a somewhat “twisted” song, both in terms of the twists and turns the story takes, and also in the unsavoury nature of most of the characters in the story. It was written during the years I spent living in Arusha Tanzania, during the first decade of this century. It's a fairly long and complicated story that I've often found kind of difficult to deliver to an audience. Here, I took a new approach and mostly delivered it as a spoken word piece over the chord progression. I only actually sing the last stanza. I think this idea works well, and makes the story much easier to follow. (The idea probably came to me from hearing how Leonard Cohen very effectively talks his way through some of the songs on his last records.)

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from On the Street Again, released December 8, 2020

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Marc Nerenberg Montreal, Québec

Marc Nerenberg is a veteran Montreal folksinger who plays old time banjo styles and blues harmonica. He has a narrative- centric repertoire, recounting stories in song and wrapping stories around songs. You may “be drawn in by a combination of Marc’s mastery of traditional banjo styles, his idiosyncratic singing, and [his] richly detailed ballads.” (Mike Regenstreif – Folk Roots/Folk Branches 2019) ... more

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