RUNAWAYS (feat. Kirk Hammett)

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“This is the hardest we’ve ever rocked on a recording. That’s thanks in no small part to an actual and absolute vintage Kirk Hammett wah solo, about which I am self-pinching daily. The main riff of the song had been lurking in my drafts like a caged animal since our last album, and at some point in the past year we decided it was time to set it free.
We’re not abandoning our banjos and mandolins, and in fact, there’s banjo in there; if you squint you can hear it. For now though, we’re slinging double electrics, Scott traded brushes for drumsticks, Chris is grinding the low strings, and we have a metal legend coming in at the 2:25 mark.
We went back to the outstanding duo of Aaron Eisenberg and Anneliese Salgado at Sound +Vision Co., who produced our video for “Hypothermic.” Their collage animation sets Avi and me in a demonic, post-apocalyptic-meets-Catch Me If You Can world, where we’re singing a circular rags-to-riches / riches-to-rags tale of moral ambiguity.”
-Patrick Dyer Wolf

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Once upon a wintertime
When I was a boy
And fending for myself
And taking some joy
In stealing from the shops
On the boulevard
I came upon a man who was saying it’s

Hard to walk along the streets And see what you see
My heart is an ocean
But it’s drying up (fast)

(Fast)er than his eye could see I snuck up behind
Reached in his pocket
Took his watch and said I Think I gotcha

He ran away
I ran away

Once upon a better time
When I was the man
And so far away
From where my story began
And going to the shops
Of silver and gold
I thought I heard a voice behind me saying I (told)

(Told) you anyone can see
That you don’t belong
What gave you the notion
You’re the star of this
Song was playing in the shop I turned to a man
Who asked the time
And did I have a dime
I said I gotcha

I went to pay
He ran away

I ran away
I ran away
I ran away

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released September 27, 2023
Kirk Hammett appears courtesy of Blackened Recordings.

Written by Goodnight, Texas
Copyright 2023 - Porch Couch Songs, Seriously Serious Songs, Mason Oaks Music, Sugiura Sound

Patrick Dyer Wolf - Lead vocal, guitar, electric piano, banjo Avi Vinocur - Vocal, guitars
Chris Sugiura - Bass
Scott Padden - Drums
Kirk Hammett - Lead guitar

Recorded by Ian Pellicci at Brothers Chinese Recording, Oakland, CA Mixed by Jay Pellicci at Brothers Chinese Recording, Oakland, CA Mastered by Amy Dragon in Portland, OR
Single Art by Dani Saputo
Cover Photograph by Chris Johnston
Video Production Co: Sound + Vision Co Director / Animator: Aaron Caleb Eisenberg Producer/ Illustrator: Anneliese Salgado
Released by 2 Cent Bank Check Records, El Cerrito, CA

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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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