Dry Heat

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NEW GOODNIGHT, TEXAS ALBUM 'Signals' OUT JULY 19, 2024!!

"We wanted to kick off Signals (our new album of heavier material) with a fun rocking song that felt like it fit on the Southwestern highways we’ve spent a lot of time on recently. We’ve started touring more in Arizona and New Mexico this past year and there’s nowhere like it. The best scenery and food in the world. We wanted a fun and somewhat ridiculous (see the mind-numbing choreography in the music video) highway song to slap the steering wheel to and keep time with the lines in the road: a companion to peeling out of a dirt parking lot of a run-down gas station while pointing at the sky. Sometimes when you’re working on a computer in the dark all you want to do is escape to the desert in an old car - and nothing cures my anxiety like a day on the open road, even if I’m only imagining it." - Avi Vinocur

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Blythe, California
Construction signs
Arizona dust storm
Jumpin’ state lines
Bet on the weather you're bound to get beat
Yeah it’s damn hot but it’s a dry heat

Page, Arizona
The heels of Lake Powell
Colorado River’s
Still runnin’ somehow
Radio static, I can pick out a voice
Leavin’ somewhere like I’m given a choice

Can’t stay still, gotta keep goin
Long as this dust is gonna keep blowin’
Curve in the road is ever ongoing
And I’m
On to the next

Just last April
It snowed in Nogales
The night was bright green
Aurora borealis
They say it never ever comes this far South
Don't bet on the desert, you shut your damn mouth

Towing a line, as thin as a thread
Messages sent and left on unread
For all that you know I could be dead
I don’t stick the text
I’m just on to the next

Defendant gives it context
The prosecution objects
The judge he balances checks
The jury reads from their text
Observers crying perplexed
I stop to pay my respects
But I don’t feel the effects
So I’m on to the next

I-15
Had to pull over
Just about crashed
Like a Mars rover
Guess I’m sleepin’ in the town of Mesquite
Yeah it’s damn hot but it’s a dry heat
Can’t stay still, Gotta keep goin
Long as this dust, Is gonna keep blowin’
Curve in the road is ever ongoing
And you
You might think it's complex
But what do you expect
I don't stick to the text
and I’m onto the next

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released March 7, 2024
Written by Avi Vinocur, Patrick Dyer Wolf, Scott Padden, Chris Sugiura
Avi Vinocur - Lyrics, Lead Vocals, Electric Guitars, Banjo, Cowbell
Patrick Wolf - Backing Vocals, Lead Bridge Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar Chris Sugiura - Bass
Scott Padden - Drums, Percussion
Brittany Powers - Backing Vocals
Shaun Elley - Vibraslap

Recorded by Ian Pellicci (Brothers Chinese Recording, Oakland, CA) Mixed by Jay Pellicci (Brothers Chinese Recording, Oakland, CA) Mastered by Amy Dragon (Telegraph Mastering, Portland, OR)
Music Video by Goodnight, Texas
Cinematography by Aaron Caleb Eisenberg, Sound and Vision Co. Edited by Avi Vinocur
Color by Aaron Caleb Eisenberg, Sound and Vision Co.

Released by 2 Cent Bank Check Records © 2024 Goodnight, Texas; Published by Seriously Serious Songs (ASCAP), Porch Couch Songs (ASCAP), Mason Oaks Music (ASCAP), Sugiura Sound (ASCAP)

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Goodnight, Texas San Francisco, California

Goodnight, Texas is the garage roots Appalachian collaboration of San Francisco’s Avi Vinocur (formerly of The Stone Foxes) and North Carolina’s Patrick Dyer Wolf.
The band conjures a feeling of a different heavy era in the United States - part 1930s, and part 1860s. The trick: heaviness comes from organic acoustic instruments. In this case, a banjo, acoustic guitar and a 1918 mandolin. ... more

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