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belladonna

from saving graces by tom eastland

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    Also Featuring:
    Ryan Weber, Sam Weber,
    Bridget Foley, Jay Nedeljkovic,
    Bakes, Curtis Driedger, Mike Pickett,
    Glen Caradus, Geoff MacDonald, Sian Wilson,
    Alexandra Eastland, Fiddlin' Jay Edmunds, Andrew Arnold,
    John Climenhage, and Washboard Hank

    tom eastland saving graces cd release august 2012

    I feel rich, and I believe that the best wealth is that expands when it is shared. I am having some serious fun, and I want to offer these savings to you too. If you like your folk music with an edge and some howling growl, and you like your rock music with depth and tenderness, then I trust you will love some of this music. The songs on this CD chart the distances between grief and joy; between an endangered meadow and the urban jungle; between a bullfrog on prozac and a cat in heat.

    I started 30 years ago as a poet with a guitar and questionable attention to musical details. I have now put in at least the urban legend requirement of 10,000 hours of work, and I am continually learning in music. I have performed hundreds of times at pubs, clubs and folk festivals across Canada and internationally, from Russia to Australia to Cuba. My songs have earned national airplay on Canada's CBC Radio, have charted on Canada's !earshot charts for community radio, and been included in PBS's primetime television show Roadtrip Nation.

    This is an ‘indie’ project in that I do not have any brand names tattooed to my forehead to support my musical habit; however this is truly a community effort, and greatly enriched by the contributions of some of my favourite people. I celebrate music as a vital way to transcend borders and build community.

    The first review from the Wire Megazine is on the streets:

    "Tom’s first foray into recording found him on the CKPT/Wire Homegrown Album back in 1989. He swooned the judges with his honest folksy appeal and delivery. Twenty years later Mr. Eastland has honed his craft to reflect the simpler virtues of music, the same virtues that made him likeable as a young naïve musician. Four years of ‘stewing the cauldron of songs’ has landed 12 songs and a ‘who’s who’ of Peterborough music elite. Find tasteful sessions from The Weber Bros., Bridget Foley, Curtis Driedger, Fiddlin’ Jay, and Wire Award winner Washboard Hank. Pickup ‘saving graces’, headed for a nomination next year." August 2012

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co-written, and based on a poem by my daughter Alexandra Eastland

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Belladonna – Alexandra Eastland & Tom Eastland

Belladonna don’t you cry, you’ve been burned by blinding light
you shut your eyes in the nick of time.
Belladonna don’t you cry, there will be fear in the shade of the night
But you’ll be soothed by golden light, someday,
someday

Belladonna, Bella don’t you cry
Someday you’ll find you, you’ll feel alive

Hurricanes, roses, sunshine, thorns
These will all mean so much more, when your heart is not so torn,
someday
Belladonna don’t you cry, could all come clear in the twinkle of an eye
With pending pull of a morning tide, you’ll see
You will see

Belladonna, Bella don’t you cry
Someday you’ll find you, you’ll feel alive
You’ll come full circle, we will meet again
Belladonna, Bella, don’t you cry

You are the one you needed most; don’t leave me alone with your gang of ghosts
Belladonna, don’t you cry no more

Belladonna don’t you cry, there will be fear in the shade of the night
But you’ll be soothed by a mourning light, someday

Belladonna, Bella don’t you cry
Someday you’ll find you, you’ll feel alive
You’ll come full circle, we will meet again
Belladonna, Bella don’t you cry

could all come clear in the twinkle of an eye
You could be soothed by midnight light
With the pending pull of a morning tide

You’ll see

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from saving graces, released August 23, 2012
Tom Eastland: vocals, guitars
Ryan Weber: drums, bowed bass
Sam Weber: guitars, banjo
Jay Nedeljkovic: bass, vocals
Bridget Foley: vocals
Sian Wilson: vocals
Alexandra Eastland: vocals

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tom eastland Peterborough, Ontario

"Beautiful material…Tom possesses a unique outlook and open-hearted vision in his music…with razor sharp lyrics and stories that flow crystal clear, Tom is
a song writing Wizard…” Ryan Weber, The Weber Brothers, 2019.

Tom Eastland is an alternative folk-rock singer-songwriter currently based in Peterborough, Canada. Tom celebrates music as a vital way to transcend borders and build community. ... more

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