YOU AINT BROKEN

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YOU AINT BROKEN
is a single from JOHN COMMON’s record named THE LOW WINES Vol 1.

YOU AIN BROKEN
Copyright John Common Music

Life can be so mean and cruel
Make you feel like such a fool
Take you back to middle school
Lost your way, Lost your cool

You left your heart open wide
Someone shoved a knife inside
So you filled the hole with wounded pride
No one knows the scars you hide

You’re not a lover, you’re not a friend
You won’t ever trust again,
Took your bitter medicine
Washed it down with could’ve been’s

But when you come to something tough
And you don’t think you’re strong enough
Remember…

You aint broken, You aint broken
You aint broken, You’re just scared X 2
I know you wanna hide, I know you wanna run
But when you wanna run, stay right there
You aint broken, you’re just scared

You’re sealed off, you’re shut down
You’re breakin’ hearts all over town
You wear your scars like a crown
No one ever turns you into their clown

You’re made of stone, you’re made of steel
You know the game, you know the deal
You’re in control now, hand on the wheel
Drive away ‘cause people don’t heal

But when you come to something tough
And you don’t think you’re strong enough
Remember…

You aint broken, You aint broken
You aint broken, You’re just scared X 2
I know you wanna hide, I know you wanna run
But when you wanna run, stay right there
You aint broken, you’re just scared

———-
THE STORY BEHIND YOU AINT BROKEN

We grow up. It just happens. We wake up one day and we’re an alleged adult. We drag around this thing called a personality. It mostly knows how to be appropriate at work and at parties. But on some days, it feels like a broken machine that doesn’t fit in this world.

This song starts way back… with the first wound. And traces how we construct our scar tissue masterpiece, one unconscious decision at a time. Layer upon layer of compounding reactions, stories and memories. A decade or two later: voila, you’re getting tired of acting happy, and wondering why everything tastes like ash.

We wear our brokenness like a badge. Like it’s our best trait. (We worked so hard for it after all.) But it’s not. And I’m calling bullshit. We are oysters whose wounding grit doesn’t always turn into a pearl. Sorry. We’re not broken. We’re just scared.

RELATED ART COLLABORATIONS
John Common has a long history of collaborating with artists from multiple mediums (film, photography, poetry, installations, box art). For this single, Common collaborated with Denver-based filmmakers Tage Plantell and Kit Chalberg. They captured the entire recording session for this song on film. You can see John, Jess and Joe actually singing and playing the take on the final release, live, all in one take. Common collaborated with Denver-based photographer/artist Scott McCormick to create the surreal visual art associated with the release.

LINER NOTES
John Common :: voice, songs, acoustic guitar
Jess DeNicola :: voice
Joe Mazza :: guitars

Song written by John Common
Produced by John Common and Steve Vidaic
Engineered by Jim Ruberto
Recorded at Emmasaurus Studios
Mixed and mastered by Steve Vidaic
Photography and Design by Scott McCormick
Layout and Design by Joshua Schneider

THANK YOU to everyone who has come to a show, bought a record,
told a friend about our music or shared a kind word.

Copyright  John Common Music / BMI. All Rights Reserved. Worldwide.

The Moon and Me

Format : CD

THE MOON AND ME is a single from JOHN COMMON’s record named THE LOW WINES Vol 1.

THE MOON AND ME
Copyright John Common Music

Far out
Far out
Far out
At sea…yeah

No one
No one
No one
Looking

Now it’s just the moon and me

Let go
Let go
Let go
I’m free

Now it’s just the moon
Now it’s just the moon
Now it’s just the moon and me

Far…. Far… Far… Far

———-
THE STORY BEHIND THE MOON AND ME
It’s evening. There’s a man walking through the woods in the moonlight. The woods become sparse and then open up onto a beach. The man walks through the moonlight through sand dunes. He’s fully dressed in a suit, a tie, socks, shoes. There’s a dim light above his head that follows him.

Up ahead, where the beach meets the water you see a bonfire. There are figures standing, moving, around the fire in the distance. The man approaches and you can tell they are his community. His mother. His brother. His friends. His wife. A neighbor and her husband and their child. His father. Beyond the fire is the open sea. It’s a full moon. And the moon is casting a beam out across the water. It’s a calm night.

The man moves among the people around the bonfire. They don’t really see him, but they feel his presence. They’re not sad. He’s not sad. It feels more like the recognition of a passage. They love him and will miss him, but they’re not sad.

The man walks down to the water’s edge. He steps out into the water, fully clothed… to his shins… to his knees… to his waist… to his chest… he’s swimming now… out into the dark sea, under the moonlight. He turns over onto his back, still swimming… back stroking out into the darkness, looking up into the night sky, looking up into the light of the full moon, smiling and stretching his arms up and out.

RELATED ART COLLABORATIONS
John Common has a long history of collaborating with artists from multiple mediums (film, photography, poetry, installations, box art). For this single, Common collaborated with Denver-based filmmakers Tage Plantell and Kit Chalberg. They captured the entire recording session for this song on film. You can see John, Jess and Joe actually singing and playing the take on the final release, live, all in one take. Common collaborated with Denver-based photographer/artist Scott McCormick to create the surreal visual art associated with the release.

LINER NOTES
John Common :: voice, songs, acoustic guitar
Jess DeNicola :: voice
Joe Mazza :: guitars

Song written by John Common
Produced by John Common and Steve Vidaic
Engineered by Jim Ruberto
Recorded at Emmasaurus Studios
Mixed and mastered by Steve Vidaic
Photography and Design by Scott McCormick
Layout and Design by Joshua Schneider

THANK YOU to everyone who has come to a show, bought a record,
told a friend about our music or shared a kind word.

Copyright  John Common Music / BMI. All Rights Reserved. Worldwide.

Make It Real

Title : Make It Real
Format : Digital Download


MAKE IT REAL is a single from JOHN COMMON’s upcoming record named THE LOW WINES Vol 1.

MAKE IT REAL
Copyright John Common Music

i remember you told me a secret
that when it feels right, your heart breaks to pieces
when it feels right, there’s hardly a sound
and everything inside comes crashing down

if it don’t bleed…
if it don’t love…

thoughtless lovers still hanging around
make my heart feel like a ghost town
but quiet is the night and soft is the sound
when everything inside comes crashing down

if it don’t bleed…
if it don’t love…
if it don’t breathe…

make it real, bring it down from the air
scare me and tear me ‘til I’m open and bare
make it feel like we’re already there
make it real, make it real

i remember you told me a secret
that when it feels right, your heart breaks to pieces

———-
THE STORY BEHIND MAKE IT REAL
You are driving out there alone, driving at night, driving across the country. Driving and thinking. The whole time wanting after someone… Hoping that maybe they think and feel what you’re thinking and feeling. You send them telepathic messages out across the distance, down the highway at night past your headlights… You’re trying to reach them across disconnected moments in time… hoping they hear it and they feel it. You look up at the moon in Vermont or Texas or Maine or New York City or South Carolina or Colorado and ask yourself “Are they looking at this same moon right now… are they thinking and feeling this too?”

You keep driving. And eventually the answer emerges: they probably don’t. And they didn’t. And you realize you weren’t talking to them at all. You were talking to yourself. You weren’t searching for them. You were searching for yourself. You weren’t driving away from them. You were driving toward yourself.

That’s when that stack of blocks inside you comes crashing down — when you realize you were and are alone. That’s when it actually gets real — when you step outside of the fictions you’ve been writing for yourself. You complete the story and realize you’re free now, and stronger than you thought.

RELATED ART COLLABORATIONS
John Common has a long history of collaborating with artists from multiple mediums (film, photography, poetry, installations, box art). For this single, Common collaborated with Denver-based filmmakers Tage Plantell and Kit Chalberg. They captured the entire recording session for this song on film. You can see John, Jess and Joe actually singing and playing the take on the final release, live, all in one take. Common collaborated with Denver-based photographer/artist Scott McCormick to create the surreal visual art associated with the release.

LINER NOTES
John Common
:: voice, songs, acoustic guitar
Jess DeNicola :: voice
Joe Mazza :: guitars

Song written by John Common
Produced by John Common and Steve Vidaic
Engineered by Jim Ruberto
Recorded at Emmasaurus Studios
Mixed and mastered by Steve Vidaic
Photography and Design by Scott McCormick
Layout and Design by Joshua Schneider

THANK YOU to everyone who has come to a show, bought a record,
told a friend about our music or shared a kind word.

Copyright  John Common Music / BMI. All Rights Reserved. Worldwide.

Two Rivers

Title : Two Rivers
Format : Digital Download

THE STORY BEHIND TWO RIVERS
The single, “The River Is Moving”, is a dark pop song that combines a sneaky-strong groove, a lush soundscape, and starkly honest lyrics about what it’s like to be in a state of pre-redemption. The B-side is a spoken word piece inspired by an utterly surreal dream that John Common had one night.

“I paired the two songs because they form a kind of couplet: two distinct-but-related parts that fit together in unexpected ways. Water, and the idea of a river in particular, is such a universal metaphor. It can mean hope, time, movement and change. All of those are in both songs,” says Common.

PRESS FOR TWO RIVERS
Read the Westword article here: Westword’s Review of TWO RIVERS

“Veteran songwriter John Common has been treating Denverites to well-crafted, imaginative songwriting since his days in alt-country band Rainville. Having worked with a handful of bands and projects since then, Common has demonstrated remarkable flexibility in both sound and performance. … Listening to the two songs on this release, it’s obvious that Common truly is expanding beyond expectation.
— Westword

RELATED ART COLLABORATIONS
John Common has a long history of collaborating with artists from multiple mediums (film, photography, poetry, installations, box art). For this single, Common collaborated with Denver-based, Brazilian filmmaker, Gio Toninelo. “Like John, I have a desire to tell stories. For me, creating a film that emulates his music as moving miracle just felt natural,” said Toninelo.

Common also collaborated with Denver-based photographer/artist Scott McCormick to create the visual art associated with the release. “Two Rivers is proving to be another wonderful collaboration between John and me. We’ve been striving to expound on a dark and organic feel of artwork that matches this albums’ sound. For this particular piece, we’ve opted for a double exposure look that reflects the literal with Caravaggio-style lighting and structure,” said McCormick.

LINER NOTES
John Common
:: voice, songs, guitars, beats, sounds
Jess DeNicola :: voice (track 1)
Marc Dalio :: drums, beats, percussion (track 1)
Casey Sidwell :: bass (track 1)
Jon Wirtz :: rhodes, keys (track 1)
Steve Vidaic :: wurlitzer, sounds (tracks 1, 2)

Produced by John Common and Steve Vidaic
Engineered by Mike Yacht and Steve Vidaic
Recorded at Immersive Studios and Emmasaurus Sound
Mixed by Steve Vidaic and Mike Yacht
Mastered by Jim Wilson at Jim Wilson Mastering
Photography and Design by Scott McCormick
All songs written by John Common
Copyright John Common Music / BMI
THANK YOU to everyone who has come to a show, bought a record,
told a friend about our music or shared a kind word.

Copyright  John Common Music / BMI. All Rights Reserved. Worldwide.

Side 3

Title : Side 3
Format : Digital Download


THE STORY BEHIND SIDE 3
The recording sessions for Beautiful Empty produced too much music for one album. So the band decided to release a followup companion piece named Side 3. It’s a continuation of the ideas, feelings, musicians, instruments, and rooms that created Beautiful Empty. Side 3 isn’t a b-sides record – it’s the third side of Beautiful Empty. With 6 songs and a run time of over 24 minutes, it packs more punch than a typical EP. But John Common is a notoriously prolific writer, so it’s no surprise.

Take a sip from each song and see what you think:

“The Dreamers” looks at those days when “we were smart and young” through the lens of experience that may or may not be wiser.

“Good Heart” is a gorgeous ballad sung by John and Jess with nothing but piano as accompaniment. It sounds like the lost song to Breakfast At Tiffany’s.

“Clap Hands” is a reinterpretation of Tom Waits’ original song from his seminal album, Rain Dogs. This one is filled with lo-fi trashy grooves and field hollers.

“Don’t Follow Virginia” proves that JC&BFoL aren’t afraid of a waltz. Only, this waltz has a gypsy circus driving through the middle and an ending that soars out above the river.

“Do You Know My Name” in 7 words: Dark and epic — a painfully honest appeal.

“Thinking ‘Bout God” is what happens when you escape the gravitational pull of Southern Baptist bible camp and ask unsettling questions late at night.

PRESS FOR SIDE 3

“John Common makes sure that he leaves nothing unturned when he writes. He makes naked people. Or, he turns them naked. He disrobes them.” — Daytrotter

“This critically acclaimed Colorado native brings significantly more lyrical punch and all-around heft than is normally found in the pop singer/songwriter genre.” — Music Beat

“Common makes maturity sound like a condition that thrives on the distance between us all — and that may be the point.” — Nashville Scene, Editors’ Pick

LINER NOTES FOR SIDE 3
SIDE 3 by JOHN COMMON AND BLINDING FLASHES OF LIGHT

John Common :: voice, guitars, piano, rhodes, banjo, mandolin, toy piano
Jess DeNicola :: voice
Daren Hahn :: drums, percussion
Casey Sidwell :: bass
Carl Sorensen :: drums, percussion
Jimmy Stofer :: bass, voice
Jon Wirtz :: rhodes, piano, organ, glockenspiel
Scott McCormick :: accordion
Wesley Michaels :: cello, saxophones, mandolin
Adam Revell :: wurlitzer, rhodes, organ, glockenspiel

Produced by John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light
Engineered by John Macy and Nick Sullivan
Recorded at Macy Sound Studios, Cello Hill and Emmasaurus Studios
Mixed by John Macy
Mastered by Randy LeRoy at Airshow Mastering
Design by Scott McCormick
Photography by Scott McCormick and Kelly Kievit
All songs written by John Common except ‘Can You Hear Me’, lyrics by John Common and Jess DeNicola
Copyright  John Common Music / BMI. All Rights Reserved. Worldwide.

 

Beautiful Empty

Title : Beautiful Empty
Format : Digital Download

THE STORY BEHIND BEAUTIFUL EMPTY
Written and directed by Common, it is a lushly orchestrated, lovingly crafted collection of ambitious, cinematic and honest pop songs. The words and music that fill up Beautiful Empty will pin you to the wall, break your heart and put a knowing look on your face.

Why call it Beautiful Empty? It has something to do with solitude – intentional space – and the kinds of things that tend to only happen in those places. The songs come from those stories and films that play in our head when we’re finally quiet and empty enough to pay attention.

PRESS FOR BEAUTIFUL EMPTY
“An acoustic rock masterpiece. The album is a perfect 10.” – Music Connection

“Beautiful Empty showcases a songwriter of remarkable depth and maturity. The album’s rich textures, orchestral arrangements and Common’s weathered-yet-optimistic vocals deliver a package that is sophisticated without being too slick. It invites you to poke beneath the surface, and rewards you with soul, insight and some musical surprises.” – Denver Post

“After nearly quitting music, John Common made the best record of his life. The first thing you notice about Beautiful Empty is its spaciousness: The voices of Common and DeNicola blend together seamlessly. The lyrics on Beautiful Empty are every bit as affecting as the instrumentation, and as varied.” – Westword

“Beautiful Empty, with its lush and spare arrangements, demands a broad audience. It’s one of the finest records out of Denver in years.” – North Denver News

“A talent as real and rich as John Common’s deserves to be spoken about.” – BUCKETFUL OF BRAINS / UKListen to John Common’s interview with Colorado Public Radio here.

Listen to John Common’s interview with Colorado Public Radio here.

LINER NOTES FOR BEAUTIFUL EMPTY
BEAUTIFUL EMPTY by JOHN COMMON AND BLINDING FLASHES OF LIGHT

John Common :: voice, guitars, piano, rhodes, banjo, mandolin, toy piano
Jess DeNicola :: voice
Daren Hahn :: drums, percussion
Casey Sidwell :: bass
Carl Sorensen :: drums, percussion
Jimmy Stofer :: bass, voice
Jon Wirtz :: rhodes, piano, organ, glockenspiel
Scott McCormick :: accordion
Wesley Michaels :: cello, saxophones, mandolin
Adam Revell :: wurlitzer, rhodes, organ, glockenspiel

Produced by John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light
Engineered by John Macy and Nick Sullivan
Recorded at Macy Sound Studios, Cello Hill and Emmasaurus Studios
Mixed by John Macy
Mastered by Randy LeRoy at Airshow Mastering
Design by Scott McCormick
Photography by Scott McCormick and Kelly Kievit
All songs written by John Common except ‘Can You Hear Me’, lyrics by John Common and Jess DeNicola
Copyright  John Common Music / BMI. All Rights Reserved. Worldwide.

Christmas is Weird

Title : Christmas is Weird
Format : Digital Download

THE STORY BEHIND CHRISTMAS IS WEIRD
“I wrote this song for people who have a tough time during the holiday season. Share it with those folks in your life,” John Common.

LINER NOTES FOR CHRISTMAS IS WEIRD
John Common :: song, vocals, acoustics guitars
Jess DeNicola :: vocals
John Macy :: pedal steel
Lucia De Giovanni :: photo

Recorded by/with John Macy at Macy Studios.

Good To Be Born

Title : Good To Be Born
Format : Digital Download

THE STORY BEHIND GOOD TO BE BORN
John Common’s debut record, GOOD TO BE BORN, is a classic headphone album from start to finish. Smart, introspective songs and layered arrangements combine with artful production choices to create a fully realized record that documents Commons exploration into new territory.

GOOD TO BE BORN is a chronicle of a group of artists and friends experimenting and using the studio to define a new voice. “The only rule we had was that any obvious choices had to be challenged. And that meant hours of trying different things, looking for how the puzzle of each song might fit together in new ways,” says Common.

PRESS FOR GOOD TO BE BORN
“A brilliant, extremely ambitious disc… Denver’s finest rock recording of the past decade.” — WESTWORD MAGAZINE (Good To Be Born)

“Raw, yet sophisticated pop.” — THE ONION

“Is something really going on in Denver’s music scene? If we need any more evidence that speaks to the vitality of our expanding catalog of acts, John Common’s new album, “Good to be Born” is that kind of prescription…It’s out. And not to be forgotten. ” — SYNTAX

“A rich mix of samples, guitars, and lyrical intensity in a quieter version of ‘Bends’-era Radiohead or the missing step in Wilco’s leap from ‘Being There’ to ‘Summerteeth’. The music is complex and innovative without sacrificing catchy hooks or raw energy in a wide range of styles and tempos. ” — COLORADO MUSIC BUZZ

“Denver’s John Common has cracked the code of modern-day songwriting and delivered us something surprisingly refreshing… “Good To Be Born,” is full of energy, passion, creativity, variety, personality and most importantly, sounds you’ve never heard before. He is a damn good songwriter. ” — KCSU MUSIC DIRECTOR / ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGIAN

“The auspicious debut of former Rainville frontman John Common shares intellectual shelf space with mid-period Remy Zero and Radiohead. With supple vocals that glide from intoxicating purrs to forceful croons, Common weaves his way through intelligent, cinematic material that’s thoughtfully augmented by well-placed samples, subtle brass accompaniment and murmuring keys.” — WESTWORD MAGAZINE

“This album portrays a band with the skills to embellish a writer who has a foot in the motherlode of great songs.” — AMERICANA UK

“Common has achieved the musical equivalent of picking up seven tiles in a game of Scrabble and being able to lay down “bezique” on the first turn. ” — FIVE MAGAZINE, TAOS, NEW MEXICO

“It would be much too easy to use John Common’s last name as a pun to describe his ‘uncommon’ skills as a singer-songwriter, but what the hell.” — SANTE FE REPORTER

“John Common has a keen melodic sense and the requisite ability to take the basic pop formula and turn it on its head. The mix of goodies on his new release, Good To Be Born, bring together a host of elements and styles that, although diverse, avoid the abrasion that many artists suffer when trying to blend too much The blossoming Denver scene should be plenty proud to have Common in its quiver of emerging artists.” — KAFFEINE BUZZ

“Drawing as much from Radiohead and Yo La Tengo as it does from Wilco and the Jayhawks, the group folds elegant melody into brooding experimentalism — an epic, adventurous sound that will be showcased on an upcoming full-length debut.” — WESTWORD MAGAZINE

“Common writes a great song just about every day… ‘Good To Be Born’ is a Matthew Sweet-meets-Queen rock opus filled with catchy songs and layers of clever vocals… Damn him.” — 5280 MAGAZINE

“Common is a gifted songwriter with a playfully weird sensibility.” — DENVER POST

“Good To Be Born is a compilation of 11 powerful songs with multiple layers and complexities…” — NORTH DENVER NEWS

“There are songs that make me want to drink till morning you see… Songs that make me wish I’d somehow gone home with that handsome stranger who smiled when I looked up from my book… Songs that make me want to be loud and messy and get into lots of trouble, when normally I am quiet and neat and only get into medium amounts of trouble… Songs I’ve caught myself putting on repeat when it’s 2 am and I have to wake up at 6…”
— A GIRL
credits
released August 11, 2006

LINER NOTES FOR GOOD TO BE BORN
JOHN COMMON | GOOD TO BE BORN

All songs by John Common (BMI), except for ‘The Other Side of Town’ John Common and Sara Thorpe.
Produced by John Common, Scott Davies
Engineered by Scott Davies, John Common
Recorded at Emmasaurus Sound
Mixed by Jeremy Lawton
Mastered by Andrew Vastola
Art direction and design by Nick Jackson
Copyright John Common Music / BMI. All rights reserved world wide.

John Common
vocals, guitars, wurlitzer, piano, toy piano, glockenspiel, samples

Scott Davies
drums, samples, typewriter, backing vocals

Jed Marrs
piano, wurlitzer, organ, backing vocals

Kevin Meyer
bass, glockenspiel, backing vocals

Also
Steve Millin – Bass on ‘Anyway’
Chris Eagleton – Samples on ‘Call Me Right Now’
Jeremy Lawton – Conjunculator on ‘Anyway’
Paul Ewald – Trumpet on ‘In A Bookstore’
Briley Brown – Backing vocals on ‘The Other Side of Town’
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Why Birds Fly

Title : Why Birds Fly
Format : Digital Download

THE STORY BEHIND WHY BIRDS FLY

WHY BIRDS FLY is John Common’s second release as a solo artist. Recorded from 2005 to 2007, WHY BIRDS FLY continues Common’s experiments in combining words, melody, found sounds and starkly honest songwriting. WHY BIRDS FLY is an audio stroll through the valley of the shadow of relationships.

PRESS FOR WHY BIRDS FLY
“John Common’s WHY BIRDS FLY is a thirteen-song collection of scratched films and charred photos that chronicle how things come together and then fall apart. Call it the dark “disc two” from the sessions that produced GOOD TO BE BORN, Common’s critically acclaimed debut record. Common covers some intensely emotional ground on this unflinching new release. The disc also shows his breadth as both writer and producer, an artist at ease with quiet acoustic numbers, wordless sound landscapes and fully-orchestrated rock stunners. Wrapped in radio static and shot out into space, WHY BIRDS FLY is both a great question and a troubling answer.” — Marty Jones

“Why Birds Fly is even more uncommon than its acclaimed 2006 predecessor…the aural environment Common creates is so sumptuous that it rewards repeated listens even as it confounds expectations.” — WESTWORD MAGAZINE (Why Birds Fly)

“It may seem difficult to imagine a guy named John Common living a highly individual life, but believe it… his creative curiosity and detail-oriented aesthetic distinguish him from the drooling pack of earnest singer-songwriters.” — DENVER POST

“John Common has plenty of natural talent. But a more literal interpretation also applies to his latest recording, Why Birds Fly. Throughout tunes such as “Moonlight” and “Unseen Things,” Common weaves traditional instrumentation with the sort of found sounds heard in forests at night: the ambient noises of creatures that creep, crawl or take wing. These subtle touches make his work seem natural in every sense of the word.” — BEST OF WESTWORD 2008

“He always seems to have the right words… with a repertoire that ranges from haunting to hopeful, pensive to provocative.” — COLORADO LOCAL LEGENDS

“Far too many performers settle for predictability — but Common constantly pushes himself, his songs and his arrangements onto paths that few travelers have trod. While his work can seem inconsistent at times, even the misses are intriguing — and the high points (like “Moonlight” and the preternatural “Not So Bad”) truly take wing. — WESTWORD

“John approaches songwriting as though each song is a scene from a movie. The music and lyrics traverse in opposite directions. Music that grinds and roars, exhales and charges again in a fashion reminiscent of early Rolling Stones or Neil Young Two contrasting streams of expression meet to create an energetic dissonance that is pleasant to the troubled ear, in a word rock.” — BOULDER WEEKLY

“His face is a familiar one around town – although it’s not as recognizable as his voice.” — DENVER POST

“John Common refuses to cave to category.” — DENVER DAILY NEWS

LINER NOTES FOR WHY BIRDS FLY
JOHN COMMON | WHY BIRDS FLY

Produced by John Common
Engineered by Scott Davies, Jeremy Lawton, John Common
Recorded at Emmasaurus Sound
Mixed and mastered by Jeremy Lawton
Art direction and design by John Common
Copyright John Common Music / BMI. All rights reserved worldwide.

Call
John Common – guitar, rhodes

Already There
John Common – guitar, vocals
Jeremy Lawton – conjunculator

Do You Hate
John Common – guitars, wurlitzer, piano, samples, vocals
Scott Davies – drums, samples
Steve Millin – bass
Jeremy Lawton – backing vocals

Moonlight
John Common – guitars, wurlitzer, piano, samples, vocals
Scott Davies – drums
Steve Millin – bass
Jeremy Lawton – conjunculator
Chris Eagleton – samples
Adam Lancaster – guitar

Before You Met Me
John Common – wurlitzer, rhodes, samples, vocals
Matt Gilliam – trumpet, fluegal horn

Flesh Wound
John Common – guitars, wurlitzer, samples, vocals
Scott Davies – drums, samples
Kevin Meyer – bass
Jed Marrs – backing vocals

Unseen Things
John Common – samples
Scott Davies – samples

LGM
John Common – guitar, banjo, samples, vocals
Jeremy Lawton – weisenborn

You Stay
John Common – guitars, wurlitzer, piano, vocals
Scott Davies – drums, samples
Steve Millin – bass

Wrong Number
John Common – guitar, wurlitzer, vocals
Scott Davies – drums
Kevin Meyer – bass, backing vocals
Jed Marrs – backing vocals

Not So Bad
John Common – guitar, wurlitzer, samples, vocals
Jeremy Lawton – weisenborn

Do You Hate (karaoke)
John Comon – samples, vocals
Jed Marrs – casio
Scott Davies – clave

Response
John Common – guitar, Rhodes

© John Common | All Rights Reserved Worldwide.