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LIFE IN THE WESTERN STATES

from The Natural Sweetness of Cream by Stoney Spring

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Audio, featuring the voice of Wade Truitt, dated from June 1957, found on a dictaphone machine in Lebec, California.

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The Western states don’t know how to play football. That’s what they want you to think. The Western states don’t know how to play baseball. That’s what they want you to say. The Western states don’t know how to play basketball. That’s what they want you to say. The only sport they know how to play in the Western states is flopping around in an irrigation ditch, playing grab-ass, wearing their cut-off Levis, playing grab-ass like a pack of retards, with their “cousins” and their “brothers” in the fetid irrigation water, while the parents circle around the barbecue, making another “cookout.” Oh, yes, wonderful! Life in the Western States! Ah, that’s what they want you to think that we do out here. That’s what they want you to say about life out here.

They don’t want a baseball team out here. Well, they’re going to have a baseball team out here. And they’re going to bloody well see how we play baseball, and football and basketball, out here in the Western States. Thank you, and God bless you.

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from The Natural Sweetness of Cream, released October 20, 2017
Dobro: Paul Lacques

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Stoney Spring Los Angeles, California

Featuring the founding members of acclaimed alt-country band I SEE HAWKS IN L.A., Stoney Spring still has one toe in American roots music. But songs like Revenge Rock, New Blood and Swimming Class bring to mind a bold hybrid of Captain Beefheart and mid-'70s Neil Young.
The driving force behind Stoney Spring is Anthony Lacques, the Hawks' original drummer and still one of its songwriters. ... more

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