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Glorious Leader & The Analog Cabin Mystery

by Glorious Leader

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Farmer Óli, bring the hay! Farmer Óli, bring the hay!
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I missed another autumn the Vermont maples leaves under my shoes by the time I touched the runway the trees showed their antlers in the Scandinavian moon I missed a cold October my fourth Halloween across the ocean with my songs try to stoke the fires of my friendships from Iceland to Vienna some move and some I gotta push along and I only think about it when I’m sleeping it only haunts me for a moment when I wake I watch my parents age as they approach the holidays that I’ll join in through a screen if I catch a break I was something, I was something you should have seen me on that stage, I had ‘em all that is something, boy, that’s something the phone said unknown number when you called I missed my third Thanksgiving to play a beer-soaked venue and walk streets of cobblestone and I wonder what I’m after vanity or validation chaos or control I’ve never had enough success to make me bitter never had an agent to scream at on the phone it’s a blessing and a curse, and I don’t know which is worse that I don’t care if I ever have it, or that I won’t I was something, I was something you should have seen my on that stage, I had ‘em all that is something, that is something I thought it was a salesman when you called and I was scared to lose it all at once and I was scared to lose it all at once
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when I was young my parents drove us to New England one July campfires and barns but it was the FernGully woods that caught my eye when my twenties came oh god, I formed a band and drove the land, I raced Oslo to Spain Alaska down to Georgia, searching for that place [c] Green Mountain sun you know I’ll come for you Green Mountain sun you know I’ll come for you when I hit thirty man, I packed my car, I packed my car and left the start of a journey to the land I longed for, the land I can’t forget [b] each day I wake up in that place I spied, that day when I was young I’ll always stay here in this dream I’ve found, my Green Mountain Sun
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November gloom, cold skin apple cider, garbage tins soggy leaves, fog swirls watch the trees bend and blow they surround my little home keep me sheltered from the world Feed the stove in the night cup my hands around my eyes to see the snow coming down short cold days, hard freeze ski a path between the trees to the field above the town November gloom, that psychic premonition waits on you to fall open your eyes, don’t trust your intuition it’s all beautiful November moon, shine bright let us ski without a light to the neighbor’s cabin house and if I leave here someday be it death or higher pay let me quickly turn around cause I would long to be here if only for a day if ever I had left if ever I had strayed, I had strayed half my life, I’ve fought to deny the nagging thoughts that arrive on autumn wind stay awhile, then leave I’ll accept this part of me it makes me who I am so love the world, when it’s blowing, dark, and pouring try to love it all and love yourself when you’re angry, lost and boring you are wonderful
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Reykjavík 04:39
when I kiss you hard, hop in my car, and board a plane sleep spottily in 13E, then hitchhike in the rain I know what I’m gonna do I’ll sneak in Daníel’s flat and fall asleep till half past three meet Júlíus or Myrra and catch a ride to Stokkseyri we’ll play each other songs through the night the sun may rise at noon and disappear again by three I don’t mind, it’s nice sometimes, I sleep like I’m fifteen what a joy to wake to the sound of the wind’s lonely arctic howl why oh why can’t I make a home far away? why oh why can’t I see my friends everyday? why oh why can’t I find a loophole giving poor foreign musicians free apartments here so I could come in, drop my things, and stay? I walk the streets of Reykjavik to see how things have changed the locals still wear stylish shoes no matter how it rains I buy some shoes and step outside they’re drenched, but damn do I look fly and there’s a new hotel with stunning views of new hotels built where my favorite venue stood, but I’m sure it’s just as well a music scene’s like the trees in town we show them off as we cut them down but I won’t get nostalgic, I still love it without all the things I miss the post-rock bands, the downtown, too many friends why oh why can’t I make a home far away? why oh why can’t I see my friends everyday? why oh why can’t I find a lesbian anarchist punk-rock Icelander to marry me so I can become a citizen and stay? I’ll do what it takes, I will do what it takes
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Well hello there, friend. We’re about to go on a bona-fide auricular adventure: GLORIOUS LEADER & THE ANALOG CABIN MYSTERY.

This particular journey is all about home. It starts and ends in Iceland; that country is Glorious Leader’s pied-à-terre, and he’ll show us around a bit. But the rest of it is set right here in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom —his true home.

You'll find this EP in digital form, of course, but the real treasure lies in the hardcover edition. You'll get an extra song and an opportunity to accompany Glorious Leader on a thrilling adventure in... GLORIOUS LEADER & THE ANALOG CABIN MYSTERY.

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released March 31, 2021

Glorious Leader - guitars, banjos, vocals, keys, arrangements, recording, mixing, mastering
Doug Safford of Red Sky Trading - narrator
Karl Pestka - strings
Bly Wallentine - "French horn" on Green Mountain Sun
Clay White - Trumpet on Green Mountain Sun
Ragnar Ólafsson, Gunnar Jakobsson, Micah McCaw - gang vocals on Green Mountain Sun
Holly Lillis - vocals on November Gloom
Roy MacNeil - strings on Intro, violin epilogue on Green Mountain Sun

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Glorious Leader Glover, Vermont

Glorious Leader is the solo project of American musician, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Kyle Woolard. Written and recorded in his home in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, the music is an attempt at uncompromising honesty. It is a quest for simplicity. It is a celebration of humanity, of the far north, of the infinite shades between joy and sorrow, of wood stoves and whiteouts. ... more

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