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Lee Lee Laber's avatar

Beautiful song and beautiful video, it sets a mood ❤️🙌

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Kevin Russell's avatar

You knowing the good stuff is how I know I’m good stuff :)

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Pootinella's avatar

Jodee don't hang out with anyone that listens to shitty music!

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Peter Kaufman's avatar

But Shitty Music is AOK!

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Lee Lee Laber's avatar

😂😂😂🙌❤️

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Robert Dennison's avatar

Yes indeed!

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Kathy Lituri's avatar

Tugs on my heartstrings

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Kevin Russell's avatar

Awwww

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Pootinella's avatar

It visits me several times a day, sometimes only in my head. Other times from a device.

It's like part of the family and is always welcome from now on.

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Kevin Russell's avatar

AWWWW

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Brad Toussaint's avatar

We knew it was a great song, the video does it justice! Really nice and thoughtful like the song. Love the pre and post part too. Nice touch! Great job!!

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Kevin Russell's avatar

Thanks, Brad

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Pootinella's avatar

The thing about your songs is that the lyrics and the melodies and the rhythms

all work together to create the whole entity. They're exponentially greater

than the sum of their parts. Once they come together it's hard to imagine them apart.

They meld so perfectly.

This melody has the right qualities of heart-weary resignation to illustrate the lyrics

without them, but they're attached and that connection gives them emotional power.

It's a delicious song!

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Kevin Russell's avatar

I really gotta get you to write more about what I do so I know better. My mirrors are all dirty :)

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Pootinella's avatar

It's always just my observations and impressions. OPINIONS!

Real or imagined. Sometimes studied. Often improvised.

But I think and feel a lot!

Starting with the sound causes a vibratory link to the verbal

that is different from starting with words.

The sound finds the words. Does that make sense?

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Pootinella's avatar

Looking/listening/observing from an outside source is always helpful when you ARE your art. It's hard to be objective if you're too intimately involved.

Me? I analyze everything in every layer I can reach and then attempt to paint a word picture of my responses. My favorite teacher of all time, John Hadley, told me I look at things too deeply. I disagree.

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From FB share of Leaving Time

Kevin Russell is a heart diver. He finds the feels and revels in them.

All his songs are love songs....from light to dark to light again.

He's in love with life and you can hear the pain, passion, humor,

and power of life in his voice.

No artifice. No fancy talk. No fakery.

Real soul. Real accent. Real essence.

Enjoy these love sounds from out of the echoes of time.

*WARNING* lots of Country gravy on these tasty tidbits.

Expect, also, superb musicianship!

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Kathy Lituri's avatar

Honest, humble,

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Jim Pete's avatar

Not that the others weren't, but this mofo is real! Grab where you are by the reins and go. Best you've done? I don't know, but damn fine. The whole nugget is gold. Band feel is too perfect for words. Sahm-ish to the max.

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Kevin Russell's avatar

You get it! It feels good to share this finally with folks like you. I always feel the newest is my best. But i also doubt my objectivity. Ultimately it’s only once lots of folks have had a chance to listen to it and share it that it becomes what it will be. A really fun and odd way to share art

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Jim Pete's avatar

The web has a double edge in so many ways. It does provide immediacy that nothing did before. Lots of bogus, but the record store guy that hit you with the good ones is out there too in a number you would never have encountered before. Gotta take the good with the bad in this case too, I guess. I like what you're doing, obviously. The more I listen, the more I hear. The key with your best stuff is, that more listening means the more I feel too. Certainly the case here!

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YourLocalSaint's avatar

Just walked back to the place we're staying at for the first week of Jazzfest in NOLA and listened to this when we got here. Honest and real and while I know Louisiana is a stand-in for what you give up to get ahead or maybe to just get by, this song captures that moment of mental acceptance for moving on perfectly. Thank you -

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Kevin Russell's avatar

I dig the introspecs, Saint. Enjoy that Jazzfest. Wish I was there

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Pootinella's avatar

I like the vintage look of that road footage.

Makes it feel past and gone.

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Kevin Russell's avatar

Yes that was key to this video, finding that footage

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Missy's avatar

I absolutely love this song!

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Kevin Russell's avatar

What do you love about it, lyrics? The music is cool too. That riff is what wrote the song. Once I had that the rest just kind of wrote itself. Part of me thinks I’m playing the riff to Shining Star by The Manhattans

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Michelle Shipp's avatar

Beautiful video for an even more beautiful song. "But, having the courage to follow the path to where I can see a new beginning ahead and a bittersweet past further and further behind me." This last line of your post hits home for me. We restarted once in CT and now we are talking about it's time to start again in Joshua Tree Ca. The lyrics really speak to me and how one must listen to our guts/hearts and go even when it's hard to leave.

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Kevin Russell's avatar

It’s very important to have the courage to make a change when the feeling is undeniable. Usually those changes that will be best will not be convenient to easy. Small changes too can sometimes have profound consequences

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Brandon Wiley's avatar

David and Steak Tank never steer me wrong.

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Kevin Russell's avatar

I know that's true. That man has a gift

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Virginia Lansdale's avatar

So looking forward to seeing you in June!

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Kevin Russell's avatar

Until June

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Gary Brantley's avatar

Man, that's beautiful, Kevin! The song and the video are so heartfelt, and just damned good stuff if you axe me! I'm glad you left Louisiana, mang. Our gain, their loss. 😁

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Kevin Russell's avatar

Oh yeah I love Louisiana but for me Texas will always be home

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Lee Lee Laber's avatar

On this rainy Wisco Friday, we have listened to this album so many times since receiving, plus streamed multiple times today, this heart is a softer space as a result. The whole album is again a master class of songwriting and musicianship. The song that hits hard at the moment “Unrequited Love” - no words. Thank you Kevin Russell for a wonderful soundtrack for summer and beyond. 🙏

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Kevin Russell's avatar

I am beside myself, Lee Lee. Unrequited goes way back, pre-Gourds actually. Long story about a group of friends all in-love with the same person. It was so wholesome yet a lot of manipulation going on. Anyway, something had to give. It was one of my first “leavings” as a man. But, I was still very much a boy. I moved in with Robin and asked her to marry me about this time 30 years ago. What i’ve learned is that the Unrequited Love was within me the whole time

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Lee Lee Laber's avatar

I know this all too well with my youth and girlfriends, all loopy over one guy and then your youth moves on and you find yourself with the person who feels like home. Happy 30! Dan and I, 31 years together, married 18 of those. Time flies like an arrow as they say….

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Pootinella's avatar

I'm finally getting to hear this in my living room

with my DJ constructed speaker system!

Ooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

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