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Martin Gilmore

by Martin Gilmore

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    Martin Gilmore's first album. Released in 2009, it features some of Colorado's finest acoustic talent including Eric Thorin on bass, Todd Livingston on Dobro, Rich Zimmerman on Mandolin, Pete Wernick and Aaron Youngberg on banjo, Justin Hoffenberg on Fiddle and Erin Youngberg on Vocals. Produced by Travis Book. Recorded at Notably Fine Audio in Denver, Colorado by Colin Bricker and Mario Casillo. Mastered at Yes Master studios, Nashville.

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1.
(Martin Gilmore Timtomtodd music, ASCAP) Hey there brother you know who this is? How are things going? How are the kids? I hope that you’re all doing fine We miss you all a lot around here So I was calling to see if you could make it this year Please don’t say you can’t find the time You know that dad’s been sad since mother died And he’s getting older health is starting to slide And he asked me if I’d talked to you recently I told him I had but you know I lied That’s why I called you tonight To see if you could make it back here this year Chorus Hey there brother what do you say are you gonna come home this year Don’t you know that you ain’t been home since mother died I don’t know what else to say but you know that dad he’s in a bad way And I know that he’d love to see you again before he crosses to the other side. I know that we had our fights and you and dad crossed maybe once or twice but you know that he still loves you despite it all He’s been thinking a lot about his past And his mind is fading pretty fast And I think he’d like to talk before it’s gone If you want me to apologize I will Can’t believe that we’re fighting still Don’t even remember what it was about Hate to have to call you and beg But I told him I’d ask and I can’t go back And tell him that you said no Won’t you come home Won’t you come home Chorus
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(Martin Gilmore Timtomtodd music, ASCAP) Jenny and Jackson they fell in love Somewhere in a cabin by the glow of a stove Somewhere in the mountains in the weeks before the spring Before the mountain tulips bloomed and the birds began to sing They spent each night together keeping form the cold They spent each day surviving, feeding their stove Jackson went out hunting and Jenny kept him fed And every night they’d sing a song before they went to bed And the lyrics flowed like fire, it kept them safe and warm The music seemed from heaven sent, and lent shelter from the storm They stayed right there together keeping from the cold That’s how Jackson and Jenny fell so deeply in love The winter had come early no one was prepared The river was frozen solid and a north wind froze the air She’d come down from the highlands blinded by the snow She didn’t know how she’d found the way to Jackson’s door She’d run out of food and water, her roof began to fall She couldn’t keep her fire lit so she went to face the storm She felt a hand to guide her and followed where it led To Jackson’s tiny cabin, in the mountain woods Chorus Now it’s been four years and twenty since the winter of that storm Since Jackson and Jenny fell so deeply in love Since the town folks found the cabin and the fire that had died And found Jackson frozen and Jenny by his side But now up on the mountain in the weeks before the spring All the birs are silent but you’ll still hear something sing Some say it’s the crickets, some say it’s the wind I say it’s two lovers, safe in a cabin
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Well the wind would blow the fields away in clouds tall as the sun Sweep across the western plains and settle in the lungs Of the ones who tried their best to make a living from the land And the earth on which they hoped to live would end up killing them Don’t cry about hard times You ain’t seen no hard times before So they’d build a little shack of wood a floor that’s made of dust And the little that they worked to save they’d put in a bank and trust And through the drought, through storms, those blizzards black as night They’d assure themselves they will survive come the end of ‘29 So Frankie came and saw the pain the country suffered through The farmers in Tennessee got electricity and food The TVA the CCC Security for the old But none needed more or suffered more than the one’s in the dust bowl And so he said, and so he sang, and so he told us all This land is ours and when it’s gone the rest of us will fall He told their stories, he felt their pain and he said how to survive And somehow they came through what was the worst of the hard times
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Old Time 04:50
Old Time by Martin Gilmore (Timtomtodd Music, ASCAP) What's wrong with taking it slow Sitting on a bench by some country road Just sitting there watching the old wind blow Talking to people as they come and go Sometimes I wonder who would survive if all our gadgets and gizmos just up and died and we were left with candles and firelight fiddles and banjos instead of Tv's late night Old time, these days they're calling iot old school Maybe I'm just an old fool Who wants something to hold These days, everything's moving at a fast pace Rocking and a grooving can't keep up with the change So I'm taking it slow So much to want we forget what we need we're moving way faster than an average speed Stuck in a gridlock wanting the best living with worry and dying of stress So much to do it will go to your head Can't stop now you can sleep when you're dead Take some time to take it in Trust your neighbors and love your friends Time told with faces and hands Dinner made in a pot or a pan Instead of stuck in a wrapper and made to be fast we have things to recycle but not to last The snap and the crackle of an old LP Movies on a reel not a DVD It's too hot I'll just stay in No time to walk I'll just go to the gym
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(Martin Gilmore Timtomtodd music, ASCAP) It used to be the easy life the way that I lived Always got something back for what I would give But then you left me blue as could be Baby you left me Nothing but Hard times and lonesome memories It’s been so long since you were next to me Hard luck seems to follow me around Since you left me all alone I used to have a home not just these old empty rooms I sang happy songs not lonesome old tunes I used to have someone I could tell anything Baby you left me I know I was happy once in the past Thought I had something I knew that could last I use to smile and it wasn’t show Now I feel like I’ve known
6.
Caroline 04:03
(Martin Gilmore Timtomtodd music, ASCAP) Caroline, We never saw California We never walked hand in hand On some moonlit beach We never fell in love, Never had a romance in Paris And soon you were gone And we were out of reach Caroline I know we had our moments There were times I think we knew We were closer than that Oh and me, I wish I was in Oklahoma On the road back to you Back when there was a chance Caroline, I miss you so I miss you more than you could ever hope to know You are my girl, the sweetest in the world Oh Caroline Caroline, I can’t help but love you And I’ve tried to let you go Because you’re gone And It’s on my mind the night that you kissed me The one night you were mine Out on my lawn There was a halo, round your head You are an angel but I never said Caroline, I love you I need you Oh Caroline I do
7.
Bottomland 04:09
(Martin Gilmore Timtomtodd music, ASCAP) It hasn’t rained in the bottomland you can hear the farmers cry If we don’t get a storm soon the crops will turn brown and die I can’t feel sorry for them though their crops are going dry Cause they own a farm with bottom land and I’m on a hillside Clearing rocks out one by one to make some soil to grow A few things to feed ourselves and sell in the town below But it takes so long to get them there on the trip they wilt and dry Before we can even get them there they’re nothing anyone would buy And I’ve heard them talk about me as I plow the rocky soil into a row I’ve seen them sit and watch me as they rest on their porches below What they don’t seem to understand while they’re watching me Is the farther up the mountain the harder life seems to be I’ve seen their precious soil plowed into a fertile brown Surrounded by the green green grass on the road into the town Their fancy houses whitewashed their barns of bloody red While the dirt around my shack is as gray as the dead If I could get some bottomland and acre for my plow I could work half as hard and get twice as much as now I could get it into town and sell it on the street And still have time to spend at home with my family And I’ve heard them talk about me as I come down to the town His crops are dry and old and bad why does he even bother to come down If I could get some bottomland make life easier for me The higher on the mountain the harder life seems to be
8.
Make a Home 04:42
(Martin Gilmore Timtomtodd music, ASCAP) Seven, that’s how old she was following a wagon through the sand From Amarillo to New Mexico that’s the way they traveled back then It was nineteen fifteen and her family was struggling headed west to chase the hope of a dream To the land of enchantment hoping the best would happen along with their family She told me when I was younger “Son the way that you make it through Keep your nose pointed to the brightest horizon keep your feet falling and rising Don’t worry about what you left back east you won’t get nowhere if you don’t move your feet You know, that’s how you make it home.” She weren’t no lazy twenty something wishing for the best She was a child of northern Texas her home always was the west She never graduated, didn’t call herself educated, she just trying to make it thru She told when I was younger “Son the future depends on you Life is easier so new hard times seem harder to everyone People are too selective; they have no perspective harder things have been done There’s been too much given, to much careless living, to much wrapped up in the things we own You’ve got to let it go, that’s how you make a home” She married young by the standards today raised twin girls in the hardest times Her husband built roads and the Horsetooth dam and trapped coyotes to make a life Twelve years her daughters were in school was never in the same one more than eight months The lived in trailers and stone wall houses sometimes their floors were dust She told me “Son don’t you ever regret, take any break you ever can get Happiness isn’t dollars and cents, hard times came and hard times went But you can’t build a life out of money and stone you build it from love And that’s how you make a home”
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Southbound (free) 03:42

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Recorded at Notably Fine Audio in December of 2008. The album is made up of mostly original music by Denver area singer/songwriter Martin Gilmore. He is backed up by some of the western region's finest acoustic talent including: Pete Wernick, Justin Hoffenberg, Rich Zimmerman, Eric Thorin, Todd Livingston, Aaron Youngberg, Erin Youngberg and produced by Travis Book. The album is very diverse in acoustic styles including bluegrass, folk, swing, old time and Americana influences.

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released July 31, 2010

Pete Wernick: Banjo
Justin Hoffenberg: Fiddle
Rich Zimmerman: Mandolin
Eric Thorin: Bass
Todd Livingston: Dobro and Weissenborn
Aaron Youngberg: Banjo on "Bottomland"
Erin Youngberg: Harmony Vox
Travis Book: Harmony Vox

Produced by: Travis Book and Martin Gilmore
Engineered by Colin Bricker and Mario Casillo at Noteably Fine Audio in Denver, CO
Artwork by: Jordan Dean at Warehouse Twenty-One in Cheyenne, WY

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Martin Gilmore Denver, Colorado

Martin Gilmore is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, mandolinist and recording artist from Denver, Colorado. He is an instructor of folk and bluegrass music at the University of Northern Colorado and at Swallow Hill Music Association.

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