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Graceland

from Second Rodeo EP by Emily Breeze

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“Oh I've got to play that!' I really had to share that with everyone” - Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio

“This one I really like, it's just kind of really drew me in” - Amy Lame, BBC Radio 6 Music

“Always bringing the energy - James Threlfall, BBC Introducing In The West

“Reminds me of The Beautiful South” - Gwenno, BBC Radio 6 Music, Huw Stephen's Round Table

"I liked lots of moments in it. it felt like it was on this road, driving down a road and I was super interested" - Jordan Rakei BBC 6 Music

“An interesting piece of historic cultural excavation from Emily Breeze,” - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

“That might be one of my favourites! It's just channelling brilliance. - Mark McNally, Postcards From The Underground

“I love that something very special” - Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music

"Loved the way the sort of speaking voice just draws you in, you just wanna hear what she's saying" - Craig Charles, BBC 6 Music

“Absolutely blew me away” - John Kennedy, Radio X

“Some lovely pop-noir there, somewhere between Self Esteem and Dry cleaning” - Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music

“21st Century answer to Patti Smith, performing deeply personal poetry over grooving post-punk rock n roll” - Tom Robinson, 6 Music

“Emily Breeze IS talent..love her, she’s amazing” - Robert Carlyle (on Twitter)

SECOND RODEO is the follow-up to Emily’s 2023 album RAPTURE, a record which saw a breakthrough in Emily’s 20-year music career with further support at Radio X, Amazing Radio and BBC Introducing, XS Manchester and QBS Radio(Qatar).

SECOND RODEO contains more tales from a life well lived as a hopeless romantic, dreamer and degenerate, which range from depictions of the rituals and habits of teenagers in the late 90s in ‘1997’ to a Beatnik-inspired hymn delivered at breakneck speed in ‘The Beatniks’, to a multiverse-spanning tale of the cosmic life cycle of a relationship in ‘We Were Lovers’… to a fuzzed-out shoegaze cover of Paul's Simon’s iconic ‘Graceland.

lyrics

The Mississippi Delta was shining like a national guitar
I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the civil war
I'm going to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
Poor boys and pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland
My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage
But I've reason to believe we both will be received in Graceland

She comes back to tell me she's gone
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own bed
As if I'd never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead
And she said, "Losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow"

I'm going to Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
Poor boys and pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland
And my traveling companions are ghosts and empty sockets
I'm looking at ghosts and empties
But I've reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland

There is a girl in New York City who calls herself the human trampoline
And sometimes when I'm falling, flying or tumbling in turmoil I say
"Whoa, so this is what she means"
She means we're bouncing in the Graceland
And I see losing love is like a window in your heart
Well, everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody feels the wind blow

In Graceland, in Graceland
I'm going to Graceland
For reasons, I cannot explain
There's some part of me wants to see Graceland
And I may be obliged to defend every love, every ending
Or maybe there's no obligations now
Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland

Written by Paul Simon
Published by Universal/Warner Chappell Music

credits

from Second Rodeo EP, released April 19, 2024
Emily Breeze - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Rob Norbury - lead guitar
Andy Sutor on Drums
Helen Stanley on keyboards
George Caveney on bass guitar

Recorded in Bristol at Robot Club and produced by Stew Jackson
with mastering by Steve Street.

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Sugar Shack Records is a sister imprint of Bristol Archive Records and Reggae Archive Records. Established in 1985, we have released critically acclaimed Rock and Reggae albums.

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