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    - 150g clear orange color vinyl
    - 12", 2-LP

    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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"You’d never hear it in the presentation, but at the time I wrote “Doldrums” I was near-obsessed with the Tom Waits record, “Mule Variations” - especially all the evocative, seemingly random details in songs like “Hold On.” I wanted to create a kind of short story within a song. Something with enough everyday detail that you could picture a place, and the characters, but with enough mystery for you to fill in the blanks to your liking." - Jon Nolan

lyrics

Pauly works at one of them ‘You Call – We Haul’ places
Friday nights he rounds ’em up down by the bars
Where the drunks can’t stand up,
Let alone drive away their cars
And he gets fifty bucks every time he takes a ride

Eight years old – his mom was dead and gone
Pop worked at the Drink Tank slingin’ booze ‘til dawn
He’d sit in a back booth where people carved their names
And watched the people play their stupid people games

Drifting in the doldrums again
Waiting on some wind to come

Mary Frank is rosy all the time
Her skin like a snowfall – hair like a coalmine
Opens the restaurant every five AM
Turns the key and Pauly comes walking in
He brightens up again every time she smiles
She makes some coffee and they sit and talk awhile

The days come so slow
Love lingers – lays so low
Whichever way the wind does blow
Let it blow

The sky is clothed in violet
Mary holds her own hand waiting on a ring
Pauly waits to see what the next day will bring around
To see what the wind will bring

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

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Say ZuZu New Hampshire

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

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