Musicians | The Camp Store Carlsbad, CA | 9.1.2024
Dan Greenbaum
Mike Hunt
Mark ODonnell
Mike Pritchard
Jay Phillips
Lyrics
Ain’t no right ain’t no wrong when you sit and watch a new day dawn
Ain’t no wrong ain’t no right been sittin’ since the dark of night
Walked myself to the edge of town
Made damn sure no one follow me down
Yes and to keep myself a little company
Well I gotta little hipper from the whiskey family
But it don’t, no it don’t, yes it don’t
Matter much anyway
All alone, all alone, one and only
Help me get my thinking straight
Just cut the cable and the TV screen just a rabid dog barking back at me
So many voices chiming through my head can’t put a face to the words just said
Get more listening to the wind and rain
r the rumble of a diesel train
Cause a mans a man and a facts a fact, b
But those are lies and we can’t be lied to like that
But it don’t, no it don’t, yes it don’t
Matter much anyway
All alone, all alone, one and only
Help me get my thinking straight
You cant tell a lie through a song and expect folks to listen all that long
Guitar note catch a breeze and off it go, and whos gonna catch em I don’t know
Way over top a voice gonna hit that note
and you know it’s coming from a blueman’s throat.
Thats my version of a TV screen,
you see it don’t have to be all obscene.
But it don’t, no it don’t, yes it don’t
Matter much anyway
All alone, all alone, one and only
Help me get my thinking straight
About the Song
One morning in Upstate New York found me on a rooftop drinking a little wine, and smoking some weed with the surviving members of a party from the night before. It was the day my cousin Salty graduated college by Lake Seneca in western New York State.
Ain’t no right, ain’t no wrong, when you sit and watch a new day dawn!
Visiting any college town was always an irresistible proposition during the years I went to university. Each college town was a new group of people of the same age group, making something out of nothing. Little else mattered back then. Every time I sing this song I laugh about the policeman who tried to talk us down from that roof. First threatening us, almost slipping off himself, then cussing us as he departed into his frustrated morning duties of crushing doughnuts.
About the Live Video:
As with previous shows, I’m going to release a song a week until the complete show is uploaded and archived on Substack. This concert is being released in support of the new single “Perpetual Change” (released on November 8, 2024). We started video taping and recording our live shows consistently in 2023, when I took over the live sound. Prior to that the recording sound quality was a bit spotty.
Related stories tied to the November 8, “Perpetual Change” release:
Perpetual Change: Official Music Video
Perpetual Change: Studio Notes
Live Performance of Perpetual Change, First Time We Played It at the Camp Store
About the Ram
Mark "The Ram" O'Donnell is an independent American composer and visual artist based out of Carlsbad, California. He performs original, surf-inspired, West Coast rock-and-roll.
For more information about the Ram and his music, go to www.TheRamMusic.com
Song Metadata
New Day Dawn
The Ram
UPC: 196864168335
ISRC: QZHNC2213764
Release date: October 20, 2023
ASCAP Work ID: 916553332
ASCAP Singer Songwriter IPI Number: 375350750
ASCAP Publisher IPI Number: 375351159
More Information
I currently use DistroKid to get everything out to the streaming platforms, Disco for all sync requests, Bands In Town to list live shows, and Substack for just about everything else.
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