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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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"We all struggle to ask for help sometimes, even when it’s right there. I don’t know why I chose to make the subject of this song an unhappy government employee, but I acknowledge the irony of my taking a government job after Say ZuZu broke up. I was totally digging Son Volt’s “Trace” and “Straightaways” records at the time I wrote this." - Cliff Murphy

lyrics

Well, he found some work at a government job,
Trying to pass the time and suck up the changes.
He’d lose his breath when he’d guess his fate,
And anger overtook him when he was shuffling papers.

Well, it seemed the way to get by
Was to set his teeth and smile and not let on.
But it never worked, and he’d sit and cry,
Blinded by the rage and not seeing the answers.

You lie there freezing
With the good Lord watching
And you don’t ask for nothin’
Watching, waiting, with the power to save you,
And you don’t say a word.

So he carried the day home on his back,
Fretting all the while and sweating the changes.
He never dreamed that he’d see the day
He’d find his life had dried up on stony ground.

credits

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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