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about

I'd had this knocking around for a while and it took me years to finish writing the lyrics. I was on tour with Norah Jones and had to be in Nashville to work with a banjo player called Alison Brown. I thought if we got the chance it would be great to record one of my songs and have her play banjo on it, and I thought what about 'I'm A Record', which is what this song was called at that time.
But I thought the lyrics were a bit rubbish, so the night before I went to Nashville when I was staying in Lexington, Kentucky, I sat up in bed and wrote the new lyrics. So I rewrote it thinking that I might get the chance to record it the next day but actually I didn't.

So I recorded it when I got home, at Steve Smith's. The process of recording it was; my finger-picking part on the Dobro with Paul Beavis playing drums, Then I overdubbed the vocal, the dulcimer, the banjo, the slide guitar. I then got Holly to do the bass and then when Hannah was at home for a weekend I got her to do some backing vocals. There's a little bit of Wurlitzer electric piano on the choruses that Steve played, which adds a different colour.

lyrics

You're the power in me, you turn my wheel
You're the warm wind, that fills my sail
You're the only one, that makes my day
It's always night, when you're far away

Well you sent me out with a price upon my head
I guess I made my bed, and broke it

I'm like a carousel, that can't go round
Without a push from you, I make no sound
And there's a noisy world, spinning round me

And everytime, I don't jest
I make the line, second best
I can't do my work, or make the grade
Overdressed, and underpaid

High and dry with no water in my pail
No wind to turn my sail, and turn me

I'm like a carousel etc

credits

from Turn Up For The Books, released September 7, 2013
RM: Guitars, Dobro, Banjo, Dulcimer, Vocals, Percussion
Paul Beavis: Drums
Holly McIntosh: Bass
Hannah McIntosh: Backing vocals
Stephen Darrel Smith: Wurlitzer

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Robbie McIntosh Weymouth, UK

Robbie McIntosh is well known as a sideman/session player (Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, Talk Talk, Norah Jones, Tears For Fears, to name but a few)
As a solo performer and singer, he has released 8 albums:
Seaworld,
Fortuneswell,
Turn Up For The Books,
Widescreen, Emotional Bends
3 albums of instrumentals:
Unsung, Hush Hour and Christmas Carols.
Also the Let’s Put It All Together EP. ... more

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