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    Slow Night by Larry Long
    Produced by Cory Wong

    Flipping the Script for a Legacy Folkie to Find the Modern Gems on Slow Night – 3 New Larry Long Tunes and 3 Re-Imagined Classics!
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1.
Blue Highway 05:48
Blue Highway Shadows dance on the rose Traveling down this winding road To return going home Along the Blue Highway Source of life, gift of love To the sea she must run To return from above Along the Blue Highway Along the Blue Highway, my friends Along the Blue Highway To return back again Along the Blue Highway Ides of March rushing down Flooding out river towns Life and death goes round and round Along the Blue Highway Along the Blue Highway, my friends Along the Blue Highway To return back again Along the Blue Highway Black and white, red and yellow Blue above, green below All are one within her flow Along the Blue Highway Along the Blue Highway, my friends Along the Blue Highway To return back again Along the Blue Highway Words & music by Larry Long Copyright Larry Long Publishing 1982 BMI, Renewed 2018 All Rights Reserved. www.larrylong.org **Blue Highway was first released by Larry Long on cassette and vinyl through Flying Fish Records in 1984 on a collection entitled Run For Freedom. Blue Highway was reissued by Larry Long on CD in 1997 through Rounder Records on a collection entitled Run For Freedom / Sweet Thunder.
2.
My Love For You You will always be my friend I am yours until the end If I could I would start again My love for you Beautiful in every way In my heart you remain Of my joy and of my pain My love for you To be born to be set free To be all that you can be Through this life for the world to see My love for you Dreads of color, face a glow You will always find a home Here with me wherever I roam My love for you I will never turn away From your love on my dying day These words you will hear me say My love for you With each note that takes flight Through this world of candlelight Peace on earth for the world tonight My love for you Words & music by Larry Long Copyright Larry Long 2018 / BMI All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
3.
Puerto Vallarta Puerto Vallarta Such a beautiful night As blue as the ocean In dew-drops of light South from Alaska To Banderas Bay Lovers embracing Along the malecon walkway Puerto Vallarta Such a beautiful night Puerto Vallarta Streets of cobblestone Wind down from the mountains To the river below A rooster is crowing Alone on the hill Morning has broken So quiet and still Puerto Vallarta Such a beautiful night Puerto Vallarta Cathedral bells Ring for the dolphins The humpback whale From north of the border To burn beneath the sun Where the trabajadores Ends up with none Puerto Vallarta Such a beautiful night Puerto Vallarta El mercado now full Mi mujare linda Bialando juntos we go Clouds white and wispy The pelicans dance Over the ocean Diving down in a flash Puerto Vallarta Such a beautiful night Puerto Vallarta Dulce amore You look so beautiful tonight Puerto Vallarta Mi amore You look so beautiful tonight Dulce amore Such a beautiful night Words & music by Larry Long Copyright Larry Long 2018/ BMI All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
4.
Slow Night 03:41
Slow Night Slow night My baby wants a slow night Don’t want to start no fight She’s in the mood for a slow night She don’t want to play my fiddle With a wiggle in the middle Not even for a little She’s in the mood for a slow night Slow night My baby wants a slow night Don’t want to start no fight She’s in the mood for a slow night She don’t want to ride my cycle Not even for a nickel Guess I’m in a pickle She’s in the mood for a slow night Slow night My baby wants a slow night Don’t want to start no fight She’s in the mood for a slow night Oh no, my baby’s sleeping Look at me I’m just weeping Oh no, my baby’s sleeping It’s going to be a slow night Think I’ll go watch the TV Read a book or some magazine Take my dog for a long walk All the way about the block Slow night My baby wants a slow night Don’t want to start no fight She’s in the mood for a slow night Don’t you know that I love you Don’t you know that I want you Don’t you know that I need you It’s you and only you Words & music by Larry Long Copyright Larry Long Publishing 2018 / BMI All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
5.
Chicky-Chicky-Boom Worked in the mines Before the union Was organized All I got paid A dollar and a dime Twelve hours wages The harder I worked The more the boss man made Chicky-Chicky-Boom Cut pine knots To start a fire Tapping with his third leg Down on the floor Singing and praying It would be better Everybody listen A whole lot more Chicky-Chicky-Boom On Sunday morning Rode in the wagon Kerosene lantern Hanging on the side Walk behind the wagon Just to come a running To get ahead Got to learn to walk behind Chicky-Chicky-Boom Had to go to school Over in the bottoms Just for fun The `Do-Right Cafe' We would jump rope To `Skip To The Lou, My Darling' Go around the sunshine Each & every day Chicky-Chicky-Boom Get back track Grease in the bucket Corn bread and white meat Each and every day Times are so much better When I come along That's about all This old man has to say Chicky-Chicky-Boom Words & music by Larry Long Copyright Larry Long 1995 / BMI, Renewed 2018 Collectively written with students from Oakman, Alabama. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
6.
I Love You 05:54
I Love You She was rich to the core A friend to the poor I love you From her heart she would give So others might live I love you Some people have So many have not Enough to get by The dream lives The dreamer dies I love you Often she’d read Of people in need I love you God has many names To their doorstep she came I love you To fall through the cracks To never get back Without a hand to hold Like Lazarus of old I love you Mothers unwed No place for their heads I love you To get a degree Childcare they need I love you One plate full at a time Until all children find The love, the comfort of home To be safe, and never alone I love you Surrender your self To love Someone else To share In love Not control To see in each face The whole human race I love you To see the gift Not someone at risk I love you Wonders made real Through God’s grace revealed Through human compassion combined To share this world as divine I love you Words & music by Larry Long Copyright Larry Long 2018 / BMI All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.

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Larry Long’s new release, Slow Night, transports the venerable singer-songwriter with folkie roots into the contemporary realm inhabited by musician-producer Cory Wong and Antwaun Stanley (lead vocalist for Vulfpeck), plus members of Prince’s brass section, The Hornheads and Cory Wong’s Green Screen Band.

Slow Night mixes 3 of Larry’s older songs that were hand-picked by Wong and deliciously re-imagined: the trademark “Blue Highway,” an unforgettable ear worm, Chicky-Chicky Boom,” and the ever-tender, “I Love You.”

“These 3 old tracks are some of my favorite Larry Long songs from his recording legacy. We gave them a modern edge,” Wong says. “We flipped Larry’s folk-roots script, especially on ‘Blue Highway,’ which now has a more Delta blues edge, and we messed a bit with vocals on that wonderful spoken word poem at the end of the tune, written by the late Bill Holm, a well- known Minnesota poet and writer. To me it now sounds like a Native American rap piece by the late wordsmith and First Nations’ artist, John Trudell.”

As for the new three new tunes, Wong and band provide a rich, polyphonic edge to the title track: “We really played with the song’s cool vibes, ‘cuz it’s the best modern pop tune he’s ever written – and it’s very tasty!” Long’s new song to his daughter, “My Love for You,” and the picturesque postcard from “Puerto Vallarta” round out a satisfying set created by Long, Wong and the rest of musicians on this sweet, funky – AND YES, “very tasty” six-song CD.

Slow Night by Larry Long was produced by Cory Wong and mixed by John Fields (Miley Cyrus, Switchfoot, Jonas Brothers, Pink, and Demi Lovato).

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released January 1, 2019

Slow Night by Larry Long
Produced by Cory Wong

Mixing Engineer: John Fields
Mastering: Cory Wong
Recording Engineer: Matt Patrick, Library Recording Studio

1 Blue Highway (5:48)
2 My Love For You (3:25)
3 Puerto Vallarta (3:21)
4 Slow Night (3:41)
5 Chicky Chicky Boom (4:15)
6 I Love You (5:55)

Special thanks to these incredible musicians:
Cory Wong: Electric & Acoustic Guitar
Joe Savage: Pedal Steel, Lap Steel, Harmonica
Kevin Gastonguay: Keyboards / Yohannes Tona: Bass
Ian Allison: Bass / Petar Janjic: Drums
Antwaun Stanley: Background Vocals
Michael Nelson: Trombone, Arranger
Kenni Holmen: Sax / Steve Strand: Trumpet 1
Adam Meckler: Trumpet 2

Graphic Design: Planet Claire Creative
Back Cover Photograph: Tim Bonea,
Courtesy of the Woody Guthrie Center.

Words, Music, Lead Vocals and Harmonica by Larry Long
Words & Music by Larry Long
© ℗ Larry Long Publishing 2018 (BMI).

Thanks to Amy Cordova for her beautiful front cover artwork Chiri Biri Bi.
Spoken word poem on Blue Highway written by Bill Holm.
My Love For You was written for my daughter Alana.

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Larry Long Minneapolis, Minnesota

Larry Long is a chip off the old block of American hardwoods, a spoken
word poet, a singer-songwriter, rouser, seeker, storyteller and
conservationist. Well traveled across the world, wherever he
goes, he celebrates people and places in song.

Larry Long is a recipient of the prestigious In The Spirit of Crazy Horse Award for his work in forgotten communities.

www.larrylong.org
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