Terry White - You Won't Have a Name (2025)

Tracklist

01. Laughing Leads to Crying
02. Out of Reach
03. Coulda Been Brave
04. Dawn On the Village Square
05. Roadblock
06. Morning Song
07. Praying For Rain
08. Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
09. Toast You Again

The songs that comprise You Won't Have a Home were recorded with the Loaded Dice one at a time, with as few overdubs as possible. Over the course of many sessions, we were joined by an array of music compadres, including Brian Leach (who also engineered and mixed tracks on the album), Gerald Dowd, Patrick Brennan, Rob Pierce, John Pirruccello, John Abbey and Phil Bayer, to lend their voices and assorted instruments to flesh out the desired sounds and textures. We further enlisted Pie Eyed Pete Cimbalo (bass), Sheila Cimbalo (vocals) and Tom Kneesel (pedal steel) to record a version of Deportee (Plane Wreck at Lost Gatos), written by Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman, the chorus of which is where I derived the name of the record.
The songs that appear on You Won't Have a Home reflect not only the mistakes I’ve made over the course of my life, but also the good fortunes. The album opens with Laughing Leads to Crying, which combines the mistakes, good fortune, and some pure fiction all in one!
Other tracks on the album recollect the friendships of youth (Out of Reach and Dawn on the Village Square) and the pursuit of happiness (Roadblock, Morning Song), complexities of relations (Coulda Been Brave), the quest for Salvation (Praying for Rain) and remembrances of lost loved ones (Toast You Again).

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