Name: Long Distance Blues
Duration: P00H03M43S
Description: This is how we're feeling about being apart from all our friends and family—and each other! The song features voice, pedal steel and violin, all instruments with no frets, no discrete notes, where all pitches are possible between the notes of the scale. Perhaps this is what gives the song a feeling of longing.

Long Distance Blues

by Catherine Bacque

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This is how we're feeling about being apart from all our friends and family—and each other! The song features voice, pedal steel and violin, all instruments with no frets, no discrete notes, where all pitches are possible between the notes of the scale. Perhaps this is what gives the song a feeling of longing.

lyrics

Sitting waiting for the phone to ring
Another night with those long distance blues
Thinking of you
Stuck in the middle of a one-horse town
Wondering if I’m the only one around today
Who’s feeling this way

Oh but soon you’ll be three thousand miles away
And I know that there’s just nothing more to say
Will I ever know just what I meant to you?
Or am I leaving here with my long distance blues

Tomorrow I’ll be moving on, my
Back turned toward the sun, but never to you
Thinking of you
Don’t know if I’m wrong or right
Can’t see myself clear right now to say
Why I’m going away

Oh but soon you’ll be three thousand miles away
And I know that there’s just nothing more to say
Will I ever know just what I meant to you?
Or am I leaving here with my long distance blues

Yesterday’s a lovely dream
But nothing seems to hide my long distance blues
Thinking of you
Looking out for what’s ahead
Tomorrow’s time is just another day
To find my way

Oh but soon you’ll be three thousand miles away
And I know that there’s just nothing more to say
Will I ever know just what I meant to you?
Or am I leaving here with my long-distance blues
Am I leaving you with my long distance blues

(words & music by Catherine Bacque, SOCAN)

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released March 25, 2020
Also featured:
Doug Cotton: drums
Dan McGrath: fiddle
Bob Taillefer: pedal steel guitar
Colin Wickham: bass

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Miss Grundy Toronto, Ontario

Miss Grundy is arts educators Catherine Bacque (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Jennifer Burak (flute, violin, vocals), Alan Hardiman (guitar, keyboards, vocals) & Darby Macnab (bass, keyboards, vocals).

Jennifer’s fundraising events for Nellie’s Shelter brought them together in performance, playing original material, collaborating on new songs, and supporting arts initiatives for youth. ... more

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