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Brady Earnhart

Brady Earnhart
Luke Kibler & I doing my attempt at an upbeat covid song. Lyrics below.


A Good Time to Call

Look at your name on the caller ID!
I'm locked down at a intersection
Man with a cup going car to car
Doesn’t even have to say he’s a veteran
We were gonna go to Segovia
See the river on top of the wall
Plans of the best-laid men
Now that I tend not to make any at all
It’s a good time to call


I don't go out when I can stay in
I’ve got me & my lot to think about
Trying to make haloes from guitar strings
Later on might give Lucas & Rye a shout
I just finally read Hamilton
& Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Isaias is rushing the bay
The sky’s gone still
             like a blade was about to fall
It’s a good time to call


Why is it hard to look after the yard
I’m staring at through the window
& battle with the kudzu vines
Like I wanted when there wasn’t time?
I’m liking the feel of a pen in my hand
But the song won’t listen to me
& sitting here singing alone feels so lonely


One of these days the sun'll be out
Point your Airstream 
                      east where your friend is
We’ll sit on the porch & let rush hour sigh
Talk about the days you & I were endless
The dog’s gone off her leash again
The dogwood's casting shade 
On the asters Austin raised
We can track down
         Cowboy Dave’s band on the Mall


It’s a good time
It's a Good Time to Call
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Luke & I recorded this song of mine (by citronella candle on my back porch) right after I got back from four months taking care of my dad in FL. 



the nurseryman

arbor vitae, holly tree
caryopteris, cypress knee
something the rain said
back to the watershed
turned viburnum in your dream

lying inside hard at rest
someone’s ear against your chest
I who on your skin
chanced on your long swim
hear you turn round from the deck

school of starlings passes by
rolling thumbprints on the sky
& by some unseen sign
as if with one mind
turns off southward out of sight
the nurseryman
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Luke Kibler singing harmony & Bahlmann Abbot on pedal steel.




Like She Did

Before we get past the first heart rush
Out so far that my feet can't touch
Will you help me keep right side up
Like she did?

Dial me down if I talk too free
But still believe I might one day be
The one thing no one could be but me
Like she did?

It's like I woke up soaked on the deck of
A ship & I know
That there's a chance the place
That the wind'll take me
Is where I need to go

If I made a wrong turn one night
Would you pass up an easy fight
And bring up something that I do right
Like she did?

Pull your chair up & screen your calls
Your bare feet up on the kitchen wall
And watch me do anything at all
Like she did?

It's like a dream that I'd run away from
Has caught up again
And if I just woke up maybe I'd remember 
The spell to make it end

Talk to me like I come from here
Let me hear myself through your ears
And act like everything's fine for years
Like she did

But don't say more than you need to say
Or keep me asking if you're ok
Or wave come here & then turn away
Like She Did
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A new song of Luke Kibler's that he & I sing together. Lyrics below.


 Kennesaw

Fruit and poetry pickled in a jar
Sugarwater, roses, and guitars
In the rhythm of a slowly healing scar
Old pictures, tired in their frames
Looming shadows, legacies, and names
The meaning of a day

I wander through the open chords
Wrestling with words
Painting my life's work
My failures and lessons learned
Everyone I love, comes and goes
Blue December mountains a blur beneath my soul

Oh Kennesaw, how gentle is the rain
That falls upon me now as I'm dreaming of your face
The air inside is stifling, I'm in an unfamiliar place
Suffocating

I felt your burning skin reprise
In the things we did to kill the time
While the sun was dying on the skyline
We built a fire when it got dark
You and I trespassing in the park
Patrol cars circling like sharks

Hiding in the boxwoods
Climbing up the Jersey pines
In the garden late at night
Where my trauma goes to die
Ancient white oaks creak
Cold Virginia snow, fresh and soft beneath my feet

Oh Kennesaw, where did you steal away?
Between all the last calls and drunken bouts of rage
I felt a familiar friend
A songbird on my shoulder
And the words stuck in my head
kennesaw
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A new song of mine about life in Charlottesville, featuring Luke Kibler on vocals & guitar, Mike Cvetanovich on mandolin. Lyrics below.


 House

I’m living in a house outa some just so tale
Old barn red & boat deck green
And wired outa knobs & tubes
Before my granddad’s time
Whenever the weather never hits’ll be fine

Sophie’s making rain
And streetlights outa paint
Patrick runs a bow
Along an arpeggio

And later on if I have lit
The fire pit I’ll set down
A thing or two to say to you now you’re gone

Today I made a cake for no one’s birthday
I rode across a bridge to no one’s song
I came upon a basking tree
Its arms were stretched out tall
With nothing but the leaves to lean 'em on

The pile of kindling wakes
The live oak windfall quakes
You can read the shapes
But not with the sun around

I’m looking at it here below
The moon I know shines on you
And thinking how you might be looking up too

Sophie’s here with me
Drinking rum & tea
Watching Patrick feed
Noodle in the studio

And down the street at IX tonight
A band I like is opening
(I think it said "free")
Let me get a sweater & we can all go
house
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Accompanying Luke Kibler at Olivet Presbyterian Church, 11/17/19
I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love (Sun Kil Moon cover)
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With Luke Kibler at Olivet Presbyterian Church, 11/17/19
Stockholm (Penny & Sparrow cover)
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Luke Kibler, Patrick Keese, & I in the dining room.
carry me ohio (sun kil moon cover)
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715-CRΣΣKS (Bon Iver/Nor'easters cover)
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