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On the Street Again

from On the Street Again by Marc Nerenberg

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I wrote this song around 5 years after the actual events in the song had occurred in February of 1970 when I was 20 years old. It's about the first time I played the banjo and sang in public in front of strangers - on the streets of the French Quarter of New Orleans during Mardi Gras. I had come up with this particular chord progression and melody several years before I actually wrote this set of words, and I had originally used the music for a completely different song. At a certain point, I had the opportunity to sing that earlier song for a record producer, who had only negative things to say about those lyrics. (He called the song "a conventional romp", whatever that means). So I discarded those lyrics at that point. However I thought the chord progression and melody were too good to just throw away, and I eventually recycled them into this song. This was written fairly early on in my banjo playing, and I note that I used waaaaay more chords at that time than I would tend to do now. At the time that I recorded this version in October 2018, I tinkered with a few of the song’s lyrics, adding a little bit more specificity about some details of this true story. I know it’s true, because I was there.

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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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