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jade and bone

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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lyrics

I’m so old, I am so old,
my skin has grown to jade and bone, I am so old
Mind my business, mind my home, bask in this sun just to grow my bones,
I am so old

You’re so young, you are so young
You think your life has just begun,
You’re so proud, you are so proud
You shout about this monster you found

What could I do but turn to stone?
What could I do but take the blow?
What comes around must surely go,
Now you know my jade and bone

I’m so slow, I am so slow
But I’m quick to hide, shut you outside
You’re so high, you are so high
you’re soft, you’re pink, you’re scared inside
You pick on me like you’re twice my size

What could I do but turn to stone?
What could I do but take the blow?
What comes around must surely go,
Now you know my jade and bone

You’re so loud, you are so loud
i shout about this monster i found
You’re so proud, you are so proud
You struck me, you struck you
You strike pain, you struck bone

What could I do but turn to stone?
What could I do but take the blow?
What could you do but break your soul?
Now you know my jade and bone
What could I do but turn to stone?
What could I do but take the blow?
What comes around must surely go,
Now you know my jade and bone

credits

from saving graces, released August 23, 2012
Tom Eastland: vocals, guitars, crickets
Geoff Macdonald: lead guitar
Mike Pickett: bass
John Climenhage: drums
Glen Caradus: harmonica

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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.
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