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    EACH OTHER’S STORY (2011)
    Here is an interesting blend of genre: a collection of original songs spanning 30 years in the careers of Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, with a bonus track of a song Elwood wrote in 1966. Some were previously recorded, and on those we’ve added more instruments and voices.

    Thanks to all the fine musicians who added immeasurable depth and warmth to this recording, to whom Aubrey and Elwood are forever grateful: Cathy Clasper-Torch on violin, cello, piano and vocals; John Cerrigione on bass; Heidi Cerrigione on autoharp; Kevin Doyle on percussion; Paul Dube on accordion; Morgan Santos on cello; and Alex Krepkikh on harmonica and tambourine.

    Also thank you to the musicians who were with us during the original recording of some of these songs: Everett Brown on piano accordion; Steve LaValley on djembe; Rick McKinney on mandolin; Cari Norris on guitar and vocals; and Lisa Schmitz on guitar and vocals.

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The Melt
Words and music by Aubrey Atwater, BMI ©1987

Originally recorded in 1992, Aubrey wrote this politically-tinged song mid-winter when many people are weary of the snow that has turned dirty and frozen. She was working in the poorer neighborhoods of Providence where she was struck with how especially hard the winter is on the disadvantaged… noticing also, that their streets were often plowed later than the more well-off parts of the city. Here we've added harmonica, bells, cello and doumbek.

lyrics

It's as if the sun is running
on the ice and snow
That have turned dirty and old
There are newspapers and cans
stuck into the banks

And the water is drifting away
It's trying to escape
I'm frightened to see
what the melt will show
After the long cover
of filth and despair

But the rising February sun
Is here to begin
the jubilant dance of Spring

It's as if the sun is running
on the ice and snow
That have turned dirty and old
There are newspapers and cans
stuck into the banks

And the light will shine on the faces
Of the half-rotted people
who are hidden
Like the dirt and the litter
Under the frozen layers of city snow

But the rising February sun
Is here to begin the jubilant dance of Spring

Instrumental

Oh, the rising February sun
Is here to begin the jubilant dance of Spring
The rising February sun
Is here to begin the jubilant dance of Spring
The rising February sun
Is here to begin the jubilant dance of Spring...

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from Each Other's Story 2011, released May 9, 2011
Aubrey Atwater: lead vocals, guitar
Elwood Donnelly: harmonica, bells
Cathy Clasper-Torch: cello
Kevin Doyle: doumbek

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Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, a capella pieces, old-time gospel songs, dance tunes, and original works, blending gorgeous harmonies with guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, banjo, bones, spoons, limberjacks, and Appalachian clog dancing and French Canadian footwork. ... more

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