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Caleb Nichols - Words The Stay (Tele Novella)

from Stars Rock Kill (Rock Stars) by Various Artists

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Words That Stay is such a beautiful song, and Tele Novella is one of my favorite new bands that KRS has signed recently, so it was a pretty natural decision to try and cover it. As a poet I pay a lot of attention to words and lyrics, and I think it was the lyrics of this song that first really drew me in, both in their universality and also in the interesting lyrical choices Natalie makes. I fell quite in love with the line "floating like pollen, you'll land where you will" and tried to craft a new version of this song that felt a bit like pollen floating around on a warm summer breeze. We tried the song in waltz time to make it feel more whimsical, and I practiced the melodica quite a bit to add a bit of flair to the bridge. Jameson's autoharp adds much needed, dare I say it, aeolian whimsy, Josh's backup vocals are so dreamy, and Adam's guitar adds just the right amount of virtuosity to make me blush.

Kill Rock Stars is such a great label, at least in part, because of the diversity of sounds it curates, and Tele Novella is such a great example of that. Their album "Merlyn Belle" is unlike anything I've heard before, and certainly not like anything I'm hearing now, in the best possible way. A delightful breath of fresh, surreal air, it's colorful, strange, a bit queerly psychedelic, but also so firmly of Texas somehow. I love that KRS can put out records like that while releasing punk, electro, and myriad other genres and yet, when you hear a KRS release, you just sort of know it, ya know?

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from Stars Rock Kill (Rock Stars), released December 31, 2021
Words That Stay written by [Tele Novella] and performed by Caleb Nichols, Joshua Barnhart, Jameson Swanagon and Adam Nash.
Produced by Caleb Nichols and Joshua Barnhart
Recorded and mixed at New, Improved Studios in Oakland, CA by Ian and Jay Pellici.

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