unhinged

by The Swingin' Doors

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    You expect things like the Son Volt debut album, the Steve Earle comeback record, the latest Alejandro Escovedo effort to be records you'll be excited about and enjoy very much.But once in a while you get surprised by one of those discs you pulled from the stack of bands you'd never heard of before--and more than anything, that's what makes this whole music-writing endeavor worthwhile.
    That's where Unhinged fits in. Swingin' Doors, a quartet from San Francisco, has probably never been heard outside the Bay Area, but they deserve to be.Their 10-song debut is a humble enough effort--just a bunch of solid tunes played by a rather ordinary band fronted by a couple rather extraordinary singers. Jenifer McKitrick and Dwight Been trade off lead vocal duties effectively, Been offering a warm, reassuring country croon to offset McKitrick's more plaintive and poignant counterpoint.
    Lyrically, there's some pretty fine stuff going on here."Just Her Tattoo" is classic country imagery at its finest, while "One Eye Love" pulls off the difficult feat of pun-filled humor without devolving into sheer novelty. And the smoothly rolling chorus of "On and On" shows Been understands the importance of choosing words and syllables that match the mood of the music.
    The clincher is the final track, a countrified cover of Blondie's "Dreaming" that totally remakes the song in Swingin' Doors' image. When McKitrick stretches out a note to seamlessly meld the bridge to the final verse, everything falls away for just a couple of seconds in one of those absolutely perfect musical moments. Indeed, this is the stuff tha makes sorting through all those stacks of unknowns worth the effort.
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1.
Jaco 03:14
Outside the club you stand alone counting minutes with cigarettes A painful past is all you call your own it hurts to remember it hurts to forget I saw you walking down the street to the liquor store Same old song you sang before from drink to drink and day to day God ignores you when you pray In heaven everything is fine In heaven everything is fine In heaven everything is fine You can have your good thing and I'll take mine Under the strobe light you're turning blue Death's shadow like a leech just clings to you You played so good but you lived so bad Your bass guitar is all you ever had In heaven everything is fine In heaven everything is fine In heaven everything is fine You can have your good thing and I'll take mine
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Homeless 03:12
I won't forget the way you kissed my cheek When I Tod you that Id written you a song I don't understand how sometimeis some things can seem so right When at the same time they're somehow completely wrong That first song I wrote for you Didn't quite seem to come out right And after having lunch wiht you I got home, threw myself down, and cried It's hopeless oh baby I fell for you My love is homeless oh honey What am I gonna do It scares me so to fell the way I do But I'm afraid to let this feeling slip away I could tell you I'm in love wiht you But that's something I won't let myself say It's hopeless oh baby I fell for you My love is homeless oh honey What am I gonna do My fiends said it's no good you're just trying to use me To fulfill some fantasy I have some fun And then lose me You belong to someone else And I won't try to take you away And I won't hurt anybody except myself If I think of you today It's hopeless oh baby I fell for you My love is homeless oh honey What am I gonna What am I gonna What am I gonna do
4.
I Came Down 04:02
I came down to this little town and what I found What I found was loneliness and sorrow It might get better tomorrow but I don't know What you see could later blind you What sets you free may someday bind you And I can see that this is not and will not Ever be enough for you Holes in my pockets Rocks in my shoes Nothing to live for Nothing to lose I came down to this little town and what I found What I found was broken dreams and heartache It might be better by next week but I don't know All you learned is what you lost All you earned is what it cost And I can see that this is not and will not Ever be enough for you Holes in my pockets Rocks in my shoes Nothing to live for Nothing to lose There are times Love's so hard to find And the world looks dark and dreary At those times I look in the mirror Sometimes it's really bad Oh I came down to this little town and what I found What I found was loneliness and sorrow It might get better tomorrow but I don't know Holes in my pockets Rocks in my shoes Nothing to live for Nothing to lose There are times Love's so hard to find And the world looks dark and scary yeah At those times I look in the mirror Sometimes it's not too bad
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In a world you believe it it hurts to see deception Disappoints to follow hope left unfulfilled It's a vacant guilty comfort when you make someone believe You'll keep a promise that you know you never will Offer me the world the world or just another day Offer me the world the world it's a lie anyway It's a lie anyway Offer me the world the world or just another day Offer me the world the world it's a lie anyway it's a lie anyway It's a lie you'll die live in when you hate What you've forgiven and you hate The way you get misunderstood You could never really live in Aworld you Don't believe in Just try living and You might find something good Offer me the world the world or just another day Offer me the world the world it's a lie anyway It's a lie anyway
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One Eye Love 01:30
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On and On 03:32
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Dreaming 03:44

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These tracks have been remastered from the 1995 cd for digital release.
Swingin' Doors were:
Jenifer McKitrick
Dwight Been
Stephanie Lee
Diane Glaub

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released May 5, 1995

Terry Dowling-slide guitar

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"Out of the cauldron of some collective folk unconscious, fueled by the energy of loss transcended, these are the timeless, haunted, twice-told tales of just how it is that the ghost has come to escape from the machine."--Sandy Pearlman, producer of Jenifer's album Glow ... more

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