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Now I Can Own It

from Fork in the Road by Jeremy P. Martin

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Both Feet Down. 1999.

Now I Can Own It, released on the album Both Feet Down in '99 is from my first 'real' crop of songs.

An idiosyncratic performance, with a vocal that just hasn't come into its own yet. But for me this track makes it into this collection for its lyrics, specifically the line 'the mortgage is paid off on my soul'.

I bailed out of the Christchurch 'underground' scene in the mid '90s after quitting/getting-fired from Squirm (the best Christchurch band I played with, on keyboard; for their awesome Broken Planet/Whip Me Honey run on Failsafe Records) on stage @ The Dux De Lux. Life had caught up on me.
Eventually, when the dust had settled, I got an acoustic guitar and started going to the open mic night @ The Green Room, directly down stairs from 112A Lichfield St, my old pad, and scene of eye opening highs and soul crushing lows. Growing up.
I got a resident gig @ Boodles, or more accurately, Gretchen got me a residency. I saw Paul Ubana Jones play. Just one show of his completely reinvented my idea about what and how music should be and overnight I transformed into a Paul Ubana clone, with all the soul and passion but none of the musicianship, life experience and road worn professionalism.
I took my Boodles set into Nightshift, and recording again with Arnie Van Bussel, laid down the 13 tracks live in front of a pair of mics, in an afternoon.

It's also an example of what I feel is a large amount of Christian imagery in my writing 'it will be done here on earth' from the lord’s prayer. Considering I'm not now nor have I ever been a Christian. There is a theme here though which I'm pursuing on into the future as I follow the other fork.

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from Fork in the Road, released January 28, 2015
Arnie Van Bussel @ Nightshift Studios.

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