John Moreland

Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When you hear John Moreland's sweet voice, it's hard to believe he spent years singing in punk, metal-core and hardcore bands. He plays acoustic guitar now, but his songs are still full of passion.

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0:00.0	I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert.
0:05.2	To see the video, subscribe to the All Songs Considered Tiny Desk Concerts.
0:10.2	Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. Arkansas rivers, Alasaw Blue,
0:37.0	Alasaw Blue. It's all blue. Alles are blue. This town never seen nothing like you. They got silver stars for American guys. I want to be stone,
0:45.0	to be stone-thone American rise.
0:50.0	Well, I don't own anything you don't know shit
0:55.1	With your bloodshot eyes giving my black heart fits
1:00.5	There's a neon sign that says big bad love and a noose hanging down from the heavens
1:08.4	they above.
1:11.4	It's no use. God bless these blues. Let's get wrecked and bruised and bad. I need you.
1:25.0	Come on, burn right through. Honey, show me I'm not shadow.
1:39.0	Down for the count long for the ride. Sipping cold medicine,
1:42.0	Sipping cold medicine running our lives
1:45.0	some an hour 40 with American song
1:50.0	they can bury our bodies in American wrong.
1:55.0	It's no use.
2:00.0	God bless these grooves. Let's get wrecked and bruised and bad.
2:07.0	I need you.
2:10.0	Come on, burn right through.
2:13.0	Honey, show me I'm not a shadow.
2:18.0	New York Times says, big bad love. outside and a newse hanging down from the heavens above. Oh, I'm not a man. Oh, no, no. It's no use. God bless the blues. Let's get a wreck and bruise. Let's get a rack and
3:20.5	bruise then batter.
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