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Pearl Moon (Hooverville Camp, 1932)

from Old Angel by The Lost Dogs

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    Old Angel, the latest project from the Lost Dogs (Terry Taylor, Mike Roe, Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong) is a 15-song audio travelogue of the group's pilgrimage down Route 66— and may very well be their crowning achievement. Every song on this new record is a snapshot out the RV window. Some are blurry, some are faded, but all bear the yellowed patina of something like grace.

    A wide-ranging musical palette of muscular modern rock tinged with old-timey Americana flavors reflects the ever-changing landscape as we tour the broken heartland with four master musicians and storytellers. The superlative songwriting from all four members, at times bordering on literature, covers an expansive time frame of American history from the Old West through the Great Depression to the day before yesterday. We are introduced to a diverse congregation of characters along this 2500-mile road trip: wandering Okies, homeless hobos, hope-filled Navajo children, brokenhearted waitresses and the legendary heroes of our common history. It’s an album of Polaroids, full of friends, family and otherwise unfamiliar faces, but by the end of the book, we know every story by heart.

    The trip down what’s left of America’s Main Street is equal parts wonder and squalor and the Santa Monica Pier is no New Jerusalem but these boys share the adventure like a family slideshow carousel. Through one of their finest musical efforts in a career full of high notes, they help us find the joy in our journeys. Sure, the dust storms and potholes leave us weathered and sore and the gaudy kitsch almost turns nostalgia into parody but those who have ears to hear and eyes to see glimpse the ghosts of former glories around every broken bend in the old highway.

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lyrics

(Terry Scott Taylor)

I said, “Have we sinned for something we don’t know about?
Does hunger have a lesson to teach?”
As the silver moon shined like a pearl of great price
Driftin’ over our heads out of reach
Someone said,” In California every which way you turn
You can pluck a fat orange from a tree
And there’s plenty of work
And good wages to earn
And an end to our misery”

Then the coyotes cried
“Hooverville!”
And the lonesome wind sighed
“Hooverville”
And the pearl moon tried
To turn the tide
But those voices still cried
“Hooverville! Hooverville!”

I said, “It’s wisest to cross the desert by night
So’s we best be leavin’ soon”
Ma said, “But our jalopy won’t start and I’m losin’ heart
This place could become our tomb”
And the great pearl drifted in the western sky
Then weakened in the first light of dawn
We worked under the hood
But it did us no good
And the moon she kept rolling along

Then the coyotes cried
“Hooverville!”
And the lonesome wind sighed
“Hooverville”
And the pearl moon tried
To turn the tide
But those voices still cried
“Hooverville! Hooverville!”

We vowed to stay strong when she took ghostly form
And the phantom moon faded away
Vanished in the fire of the harshest of suns
And the heat of those ruinous days
Then we prayed she’d come back and believed in the chances
That old engine would crank back into life
And we’d catch that moon tangled in those orange tree branches
And lay hold of the pearl of great price

Then the night came again
“Hooverville!”
Sighed the lonesome wind
“Hooverville”
Again the moon tried
To turn the tide
But our babies died
And all of us cried
“Hooverville! Hooverville!”

And our babies died
And our babies died
And our babies died

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from Old Angel, released March 13, 2012

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