Water Street 

© Andrew Calhoun, recorded on Water Street and Different Now.

Title track of my first (1983) LP. Water Street runs off the edge of Middlebury, Vermont, where I spent summers from age 7-12 as my mother was studying French. 

Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the noble fields;
Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the  noble  fields.

It’s a pleasant street to walk by,
Starts at the edge of the edge of town;
It’s a pleasant street to walk by—
The kind of street I don’t walk down.
Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the noble fields;
Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the  noble  fields.

Whiskey dogs my father’s footsteps,
Hot guilt blinds my mother’s eye;
I am weak and I am lonely,
I have only one long try.
Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the noble fields;
Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the  noble  fields.

One light shines to the edge of Water Street,
Each remembered, none forgot;
We are called from the end of Water Street:
“Gather here, and suffer not.”
Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the noble fields;
Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the  noble  fields.

Different Now

Andrew Calhoun

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A legacy recording of twenty original song-poems spanning 45 years; with guitar, bass, harmonica, violin and vocal harmonies. Six songs are recorded for the first time, while the rest of the early-and middle-period songs are significantly reworked. “Heavy Log” is an elegy for Chicago songwriting hero James McCandless, written in the wake of his

A legacy recording of twenty original song-poems spanning 45 years; with guitar, bass, harmonica, violin and vocal harmonies. Six songs are recorded for the first time, while the rest of the early-and middle-period songs are significantly reworked. “Heavy Log” is an elegy for Chicago songwriting hero James McCandless, written in the wake of his death in 2013. “Renaissance Land” was inspired by Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. Howard Levy contributes harmonica parts to both of these; Tracy Grammer plays violin on "No Secret Castle" and "Grandfather's Time"; Eli Broxham adds bass to "The Bull," "Deliver Me," "Heavy Log" and "Tunnel Vision"; Chris Vallillo contributes electric slide guitar to "Heavy Log." Casey Calhoun sings on "Deliver Me” and "The King,” with Sons of the Never Wrong harmony ace Sue Demel joining her on "Look Away.” Tracy Grammer designed the cover, an eco-wallet featuring art by Rosśa Crean.

The Bull Look Away 
 Water Street 
 Day In and Night Out 
 The Living and the Breathing Wind 
 No Secret Castle 
 Cruel Winter Recall 
 God Told Me I Could Come 
 John’s Wife Bow and Arrow 
 Renaissance Land 
 Never Enough 
 Tunnel Vision 
 Heavy Log 
 Grandfather’s Time 
 The King 
 Different Now 
 Shadow of a Wing 
 Deliver Me

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