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    Say ZuZu is an Americana rock band from New Hampshire. Originally formed in 1991, Say ZuZu recorded and released nine full-length albums before disbanding in 2003 and reuniting in 2019. The band’s first release on Strolling Bones Records is Here Again: A Retrospective (1994-2002) and includes highlights from the group’s five studio albums recorded during its touring heyday. A new studio record from the band is scheduled for release in 2023 on Strolling Bones Records.

    “For those who haven't met our music before, these are highlights from five records released between 1994-2002. The songs focus on the large internal lives of people in small mill towns like ours. This record also chronicles a decade of growth from a fiercely independent, self-produced New Hampshire band that flew under the radar during the heyday of the 1990s alt-country movement. The title of the record, Here Again, is inspired by a song from our 1994 self-titled record. We've always sought to write songs that hold up, personal songs that are durable and can stand on their own in a variety of arrangements. "Here Again" is one of those songs. It's also a fitting title for a record that's an opening salvo from a recently reunited band with its first new studio record forthcoming in 2023.”

    - Say ZuZu

    TRACKLIST:

    SIDE A:

    1. You Don't Know Me

    2. Pennsylvania

    3. Better Days

    4. Wasting Time



    SIDE B:

    1. Broken

    2. Here Again

    3. Government Job

    4. Doldrums



    SIDE C:

    1. Good Girl

    2. Don't Tie Me Down

    3. Colorado

    4. Highway Signs

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"Better Days is essentially about two people - one of them me - trying to enjoy the sunset of a failing relationship, and trying to find hope in what the next day might bring. In this song, I can hear that I was using Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” as a kind of emotional cold remedy at the time." - Cliff Murphy

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So she spent her days searching for an answer,
And he spent his days hoping for a reason.
They both tried to compromise
All the things they’d reconciled
But all the love they held inside had faded.

She said, “Won’t you take me to a high place with no one on it.”
And he said, “Won’t you turn your back to the sky,
And stare at the sun until you go blind with me?”
And they both sat there looking on
All the days that’d come and gone
While every fight they’d lost or won was over.

But you’ll see better days, babe
You’ll see better days, baby
And you’ll see better days before too long
Better days will come to you.

So now he’s on the road, he’s movin’ on by those highway signs.
His record stack’s at home, he don’t know quite why he’s gone, nor where.
And he wonders if he compromised.
And he wonders if he ever satisfied.
Or was it all really ever worth his while ever to be there?

So the sorrow set in like the sun going down.
And the darkness, and the cold, and the hollow feeling was all that remained.
And all she could do was look upon
All the things she’d washed or worn,
For all the things she’d hoped upon did crumble.

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from Here Again: A Retrospective (1994​-​2002), released April 29, 2022
Written by Cliff Murphy

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Say ZuZu New Hampshire

Americana/Alt-Country/Rock band
from the wilds of New Hampshire.

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