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Potluck

by Stefan Weiner

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October Country This is a great soft pop album. I think I found it under "folk," and it has elements of that (a Jack Johnsony kind of folk), but there's a lot more to Potluck. It's like listening to the radio in one of those rare summers where every popular song is great. The songs are all different from one another, but all memorable and fun. "Frozen Ground" is a perfect quirky pop love song. Great story-telling songwriting on every track. Favorite track: Frozen Ground.
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1.
Are you afraid of the dark, my baby? I said mother, oh mother I am Lay here as still as you can my baby And I’ll fill up your eyelids with sand I cried myself to sleep While the monsters were quietly creeping Through the cracks in my door Plundering sheets for to dream in What if our house catches fire tonight? She says, “baby, oh baby it won’t” How do you know so much more than I do? She says, “baby, oh baby I don’t” I cried myself to sleep While the flames melt my whole into hollow And in the snow white morning Shoveling ash from my pillow What if I fall asleep tonight And I know not the light of the morning? With robbers and demons aflight Oh, lying awake I am listening
2.
Don’t call me so early Cuz I don’t wanna talk If there’s daylight Turn it off Even in Sunday’s best I am not magnificent I look fine Nevermind Heard you inside my head You say, you say I’m strong Wipe the fog from the glass But I still can’t call you back I am constantly cleaning But the walls keep turning black Heard you inside my head You say, you say I’m strong
3.
Do My Best 03:17
This is the life I’ve been given So I will do my best To tie small pleasures with colorful ribbon And hold high my chest I’ll find the rhythm In the broken and rattling pipes Give me a dead tree I’ll revive it. I’ll paint it white I’d be a great success If the measure were more the dog than its bite This is the life I’ve been given So I will do my best To greet the morning without resistance Shower and get dressed Days in my father’s shirt They make me a better man He’ll work from dawn to dusk Come home, wash the pots and pans Gardens on weekends Moves the earth with a gentle touch But a great command This is the life I’ve been given So I will do my best To uphold my family’s conviction A truly good man never rests Call me up at Any hour on any night Give me your sorrow And I will do my best to give it flight My luck is borrowed So I’m trying to use it well To do what’s right
4.
If I were living in a snow globe Well I’d say you shook it up All my possessions slowly float down And settle in the backyard All the things that I had buried Well you quickly dug them up Gently washed my dirty secrets With a toothbrush and a cloth All of my life I’ve been waiting For somebody to break me down I was so stubborn I was impatient Til you came and you turned me around Plowed a path in my frozen ground I felt like I was hibernating In the space between my ears You woke me up to tell me I’m borrowing your car So I decided to go with you And we drove around the block You were always the explorer And I the Plymouth Rock All of my life I’ve been waiting For somebody to break me down I was so stubborn I was impatient Til you came and you turned me around Plowed a path in my frozen ground All of my life I’ve been waiting For somebody to break me down I was so stubborn I was impatient Til you came and you turned me around Til you came and you turned me around Plowed a path in my frozen ground
5.
I scare myself The claws I’ve dug so deep Where the time has gone And how things it’s done Made a monster out of me We once vowed To love’s infinity But lately you Haven’t even had The heart to talk to me Everything’s fine I promise If everything’s fine Then what is this? I am sitting beside you But I am far away There’s an ocean between us You look familiar But I don’t know your face, oh oh There’s no going back now Memories take your place I once thought That you were tailor-made But the thread is loose And the cloth is too And we can’t keep the colors from fading The hopelessness I can feel it in my bones And the only thing That keeps me here Is the fear of being alone Everything’s fine I promise If everything’s fine Then what is this? I am sitting beside you But I am far away There’s an ocean between us You look familiar But I don’t know your face, oh oh There’s no going back now Memories take your place
6.
Hopeless I’ve run out of steam and I Bought a ticket home Cuz everybody seems to Have it all figured out And I’m just sitting in my room A quiet place With time to waste 91, I’ve got my snow tires on The old hotel and the artificial pond Violins and the orchestra will sound Driving Northbound Dead end I’ve given all I can I’m back where I began Cuz everybody talks They say I’m already washed up I am no modern man Wait awhile You’re out of style 91, I’ve got my snow tires on The old hotel and the artificial pond Violins and the orchestra will sound Driving Northbound
7.
Underneath the stairs No one will find me Inside the pantry I can see the bottoms of their shoes Running from room to room Clamoring through cupboards The door swings open I am discovered Happy she found me first Sometimes I am not cursed And though her touch is accidental The rub of an arm inflated Oh, is her heart beating as fast as mine? Sitting in the dark I here them coming My stomach grumbling Pressed between her thigh and a pile of cans God, where do I put my hands? I shift to hide my grin The crash of pans and they pile in That’s how the game always ends They push us closer together And though her touch is accidental The rub of an arm inflated Oh, is her heart beating as fast as mine?

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Hello friends and friends to be!
I’m so excited to share my first official solo album, Potluck, with you. I produced the album myself, but this EP was born out of great collaboration. I had the opportunity to work with six talented songwriters, each bringing their own personal touch to a song on the album. Mason Jar Music helped me find the amazing instrumentalists featured on the record, and I couldn’t be happier with the result. Please check out some of MJM’s inspiring work at www.masonjarmusic.com.

Thank you to all my family and friends for allowing me to make this album my obsession for four months of writing, arranging, and recording. Thanks to Nick Sansano, David Kahne, Bob Power, and Errol Kolosine for their wisdom and encouragement throughout the production process. Thanks to my bosses Phil, Limor, and Tom at Adafruit Industries for inadvertently helping to fund the album, for being flexible with my hours, and for maintaining a work environment that supports creativity. Special thanks to Ian Davis for mentoring me through the orchestral arranging process, especially for his work with the horns on Track 3. Special thanks to Andrew Ellis, Phoebe Ryan, and Carrie Crowell for being the best friends and supporters I could ever ask for. Extra special thanks to Dan Knobler and Jon Seale, not just for the generous studio time, expert mixing, and thoughtful critique, but for constantly inspiring me by creating music that moves and empowers whoever has the privilege of hearing it.

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released August 12, 2013

Please read through (and hire!) all the talented folks that made Potluck possible:

Stefan Weiner - lyrics, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, vibraphone, rhodes, omnichord, autoharp, percussion
Phoebe Holiday Ryan - background vocals (tracks 2, 4, & 6) and co-write (lyrics track 2)
Jon Seale - co-write (lyrics track 3), and background vocals (track 4)
Hanna Stenson - co-write (lyrics track 4)
Anais Aida - female vocal and co-write (lyrics+music track 5)
Derek Araujo - co-write (lyrics track 6)
Mree - female vocals and co-write (lyrics track 7)
Jason Burger - drums and drum arrangements, percussion and percussion arrangements
Martin Nevin - upright bass and upright bass arrangements
Spencer Doren - electric bass and electric bass arrangements
Dan Knobler - acoustic guitar (track 4), and electric guitar and guitar arrangement (track 6)
Matt Porter - organ (track 6)
Andrew Lederman - Rhodes (track 5)
Zubin Hensler - electronic production (track 5)
Andy Clausen - trombone
Riley Mulherkar - trumpet
Andrew Mulherkar - tenor sax
Russell Durham - violin 1 and violin co-arrangement (track 1)
Rachel Koblyakov - violin 2
Rebekah Durham - viola
Char Prescott - cello
Kiah Victoria - background vocals (track 6)
Brittany Buongiorno - background vocals (track 6)
Alex Vita - background vocals (tracks 2 & 6)

Recorded in the Mason Jar Music Studios and at the Clive Davis Studios at NYU
Engineered by Stefan Weiner and friends:
Jacob Blumberg - string session engineering
Julio Cann - horn session engineering
Orchestral and Vocal Arrangements by Stefan Weiner
Mixing by Mason Jar Music
Mastering by Alan Silverman
Album Artwork by Alix Pentecost-Farren
Album Photography by Michael George

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Stefan Weiner New York, New York

Stefan Weiner is an indie folk musician from Northampton, MA, based out of Brooklyn. He combines a classic approach to songwriting with a passion for music that is melodically and harmonically surprising. Inspired by everything from Top40 Pop to folk song, Stefan is on a constant quest for music that tells a story and invites listeners in. He hopes to do just that with Potluck, his latest EP. ... more

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