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Fear Is A Man's Best Friend

by Loose Cattle

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this cover of the opening track from Fear, the first solo album by John Cale of the Velvet Underground, is the first of Loose Cattle's songs from isolation, recorded on whatever gear was available, passing tracks back and forth between Appalachia, New Orleans, New York, and Athens, GA during March/April of 2020

it sounds how we feel

Loose Cattle
Michael Cerveris - guitars and vocals
Kimberly Kaye - vocals
Rene Coman - bass
Doug Garrison - drums
Rurik Nunan - fiddle and vocals
with
Jay Gonzalez - keyboards

lyrics

Standing waiting for a man to show
Wide eyed one eye fixed on the door
This waiting's killing me, it's wearing me down
Day in day out, my feet are burning holes in the ground

Darkness warmer than a bedroom floor
Want someone to hold me close forever more
I'm a sleeping dog, but you can't tell
When I'm on the prowl you'd better run like hell

You know it makes sense, don't even think about it
Life and death are things you just do when you're bored
Say fear's a man's best friend
You add it up it brings you down

Home is living like a man on the run
Trails leading nowhere, where to my son?
We're already dead, just not yet in the ground
C'mon, shake my helping hand I'll show you around

You know it makes sense, don't even think about it
Life and death are things you just do when you're bored
Say fear's a man's best friend
You add it up it brings you down

Say fear's a man's best friend

credits

released August 7, 2020
written by John Cale
Universal-songs of Polygram International Inc
recorded by Loose Cattle in their homes
mixed by David Barbe at Chase Park Tranduction, Athens, GA
mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Masters

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Loose Cattle New Orleans, Louisiana

Loose Cattle has appeared at Lincoln Center in NYC, on Mountain Stage (twice!) live from West Virginia with Arlo Guthrie, at Jazz Fest in New Orleans and on tour throughout Louisiana and New York City, confounding expectations and moving audiences all the way to the bar and back again.  

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