The Unkindness of Ravens

by Blind Willies

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1.	Last Rites In December 06:35	buy track
2.	Mainline 04:04	buy track
3.	Feel Like Going Home 05:23	buy track
4.	Marie 05:53	buy track
5.	Sister 04:39	buy track
6.	No Peace for the Hunted 06:39	buy track
7.	Something in the Night 07:10	buy track
8.	Making Time Go Slow 06:15	buy track
9.	The Unkindness of Ravens 05:40	buy track
10.	Blow Wind Blow 05:52	buy track

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In the summer of 2005 I worked as a wildlife tech in New Mexico. Between hard hours hunting plague and hantavirus in every prairie dog burrow, I spent half my time living near Albuquerque and the other half living in a motel called La Cueva in the Jemez Mountains. The rooms were sterile and the windowsills crowded with dead flies. I passed the time writing a song called Marie and reading Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich. Ravens are highly intelligent scavengers, wary of everything that moves. It's an admirable way to live. Marie marked the beginning of this album. Aside from Mainline, written when I was 15 about the neighborhood in San Francisco where I've lived my whole life, the other songs were written at the end of 2005 and the start of 2006.

The album is dedicated to Sol Wajchman.

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released January 1, 2007

All songs by Alexei Wajchman © 2007 (BMI)
Produced by Blind Willies
Annie Staninec: fiddle, vocals
Alexei: guitar, harmonica, vocals

Recorded and mixed by Lemon DeGeorge
at Crib Nebula in San Francisco

Mastered by Paul Carlsen

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