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Lunatics Are Everywhere

from Long Train A​-​Rollin' by Marc Nerenberg

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Where exactly this song came from is not entirely clear to me - I wrote it in bits and pieces spread over several days, counting syllables, as I went, to make sure each stanza would fit whatever tune I might come up with. Then I fit some music to it and fiddled around for a while until I found a comfortable key and tempo to put across the song sounding like it did in my head. This is the opposite of what I usually do in writing, which is to stumble across a tune when improvising on the banjo, and then making up words to fit it. This time, the last four lines of lyrics entered my head, and I jotted them down and gradually added more lyrics. I have a pretty clear idea of what I think I was writing about here, but the meaning does feel somewhat fluid to me, so you may see something different in it than I do. This was recorded on 7 June 2021, and played, using old time 2 finger picking style, on a banjo tuned gFCFA (taking into account the position of the capo at the 5th fret), along with a B♭ harmonica played cross-keyed in F.

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from Long Train A​-​Rollin', released August 2, 2021

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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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