#Crazy swedish hillbilly rock band full#

I wrote this for my daughter Josephine when she was little. Now I call them 'invisible lizards' and pretend that they are changing color to disappear when they feel shy. So I thought it would be good for those shy kids to have a little anthem. The only words were 'MY LITTLE LIZARD!' shouted as loudly as possible! I noticed that it was common for me to meet little baby fans at shows and they would suddenly go all shy right when they approached me. This started out as a Dukes O' Pop song called LITTLE LIZARD. Maybe if you parents out there singing this song to your crazy child in the evening it will help you wrangle them into the nighttime routine. You know when a child is excited and crazy and we'll get ready for bed. I guess I wrote this song from the parent's perspective a little bit.

#Crazy swedish hillbilly rock band full#

When I was a little kid I used to put on the Beatles song EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT FOR ME AND MY MONKEY at full volume and run around the house refusing to take my bath. So it's sort of a song about trying to say toy boat and it's also the song about my toy boat that you will get if you can say toy boat over and over again. It never felt really right so I stripped the lyrics away and came up with this idea the tongue twister toy boat thing. I wrote this one a couple of years ago but it was called CHEETAH and was basically just about how fast the cheetah is. I did a demo of the song way back then almost 20 years ago and finally got around to recording it now. It was so cute that it quickly became I catchphrase around the house. When my son was little he would register protest with me and his mom by lowering his chin and raising his eyes and looking at us intensely and saying 'spooky baby.' in a low scary voice. I am also singing about how a child grows and shines like an awesome blossom.

There is a busted up old guitar on the wall of a little restaurant on Vashon called Pure and one day after a walk in the woods during the best part of Spring I went there to eat and while my food was being prepared I wrote this song on the old guitar about how bursty the world is in spring. I went out and bought a special distortion pedal to get a special fuzzy guitar tone for this one. One of my neighbors has a big loud motorcycle and in the summertime he turns it on in his backyard and it always scares me! When I am out in the world and walking by the seaside and someone comes blasting by on a motorcycle with no muffler it scares me! Basically I am scared of those loud motorcycles and thought I would write a song about it that does not tell them to stop but just lets everyone know how I feel. I wanted this one to kind of sound like a lost Bob Dylan song if Bob Dylan ever sang about old cookies. I saw part of a stale cookie on the sidewalk one day and imagined it's whole story. This is another song that came out of my frequent habit of looking at something small and weird and giving in an inner life. This one also started out as a fragment from along time ago. I loved the music so much that I stuck with it and now I love it! Maybe this song will help when the kids get grumpy at the beach? It started out being about a family of bears in a river then changed many times before ending up being about staying cool in the summer sun. The lyrics to this song took a million years to figure out. Once we figured out that perspective the song sort of wrote itself. We came up with the idea of that lonesome rambler narrative like Roger Miller's KING OF THE ROAD. My brother Tim helped me out a lot with writing lyrics and focusing the feel of this song. I didn't feel like it captured what I thought of and felt when I would see a balloon floating by itself across the sky. The Presidents had a song called LOOSE BALLOON that I wrote but I wasn't really happy with how it came out. I love the baritone saxophone in this one! Originally it was called 'People All Over The World' but I changed it to 'babies' because I am all about the little ones! I hope kids will listen to the song and imagine all the people all over the world and how everybody's doing something at every moment. I think I wrote both versions in the late 1980s. I combined two very old rough drafts of the same song together to make this one.