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Moon Calendar

by Travis McNamara

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1.
So Far Gone 04:05
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SO FAR GONE You were talking about Someday getting out of here And leaving it behind Yeah, some people say You could’ve had it any way you wanted Maybe you did Now you’re so far gone There’s no different way now Yeah, out on your own There’s no looking back With your feet on the ground Like you’re running after something to kill Moving out on your own Babe you’re just so far gone It was beautiful, man The things that you could make with your hands I wish I could It’s a beautiful mind Taken a little ahead of your time But I can hear you talking Now you’re so far gone There’s no different way now Yeah, out on your own There’s no looking back With your feet on the ground Like you’re running after something to kill Moving out on your own Babe you’re just so far gone
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This Time 03:36
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THIS TIME Are you busy Could I bend your ear a while There are things I’m mulling over And I cannot quite tell why I can taste her on my lips I can smell her on my clothes And I’m scared she might be Everything I wanted I was drinking on a heartache And it was cold and it was strong And I wasn’t really looking For someone to come along But she was talking to my friend At a bar across town And I wondered if I Even had the courage Sometimes We don’t get to choose Something else is Moving in the distance Hold tight Just keep listening and speaking Your heart can do the thinking This time A couple days had passed I saw her calling on my phone And I agreed to meet her On some downtown patio And I saw her eyes light up As the sun was going down And everything looked blue In the distance Sometimes We don’t get to choose Something else is Moving in the distance Hold tight Just keep listening and speaking Your heart can do the thinking This time
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Let It Out 04:23
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LET IT OUT I’ve been holding my breath Something keeps scaring me to death And if I keep it down, I might just get away Staying quiet, staying calm Like echoes ricocheting down the hall And will I wake it up with what I have to say And what if all that this is all about Is that it wants me to let it out I take it in and I spit it out And I marinate on what it’s all about And if I see it here Elements in all of my peers And I see their work and I feel it too And somehow all I seem to do Is think I somehow must do more And I should have read it all before And deeper still, the thing I know Is I was ready years ago And all it ever was about Was finding ways To let it out
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The Not Knowing 03:35
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THE NOT KNOWING There’s a tightness in my stomach A ringing in my ears Neverending cycle Caught up in the gears Feel it in my fingers Under my skin Every breathing out Every breathing in The Not The Not Knowing Put it on the table Lay my armor down Let the wolves come knocking And circle around The Not The Not Knowing But the world keeps turning around And I just can’t turn it around Words keep falling out of the sky Like the dark behind your eyes The Not Knowing The Not Knowing Take a cup of water Go to the water’s edge Pour it in the river And watch it move ahead Don’t know where I’m going I don’t know where I’ve been I just watch the water And wonder where it ends The Not The Not Knowing
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Way Through 03:04
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WAY THROUGH Junipers like gin Beneath this January wind It won’t stop blowing Like a season from the north Snow is getting thin But in the mountains, it is holding on And so am I To whatever this is Little lambs ears wilting I’m feeling something shifting When I hear you talking on The other line Everything was fine a week ago And you were still mine At least that’s how it sounded In my head I want you But I can’t have you Too many miles are keeping us apart I’m on the road so much these days And neither one of us can see The way through Hours on the telephone Letters in the mail It always seems so innocent at first Following my heart Ain’t that the way that these things start But I can tell you How I think it’s going to end Why do I keep drinking Why do I keep thinking It’s going to taste differently this time Cause I can see that mountain Just as clearly as I’m counting Up the minutes that keep Slipping through my hand I want you But I can’t have you Too many miles are keeping us apart I’m on the road so much these days And neither one of us can see The way through
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In C 02:04
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What If 01:25
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WHAT IF What What if What if it all What if it all What if it all What if it all What if it all What if it all What if it all works out this time
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Hey Man 04:07
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HEY MAN Hey man, it’s me Just thought I’d call you on the phone Wanted to see how you been Getting on I don’t know what it’s like Up where you’re living now But things down here are pretty crazy Hey man, I was just Checking in I could always count on you Listening And talking to me about What’s been going on And I could use you more than ever Hey man What do we do now Hey man What do we do now Hey man, I don’t know if you Saw it on TV I saw a man And he was lying in the street The other people tried to help him But could not And I put my hand over my mouth And they took his body And they put it in the ground With all the other ones Yellow, black and brown And here I sit behind the safety Of my screen I just want to scream Hey man What can we do now Hey man What can we do now We can’t do nothing We must find a way somehow Hey man
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Rings 03:43
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Played and recorded entirely by himself in his apartment during the pandemic, Trout Steak Revival's Travis McNamara explores more indie and electric territory on his lush and experimental debut solo release, MOON CALENDAR.

Trout Steak Revival's win at the 2015 Telluride Bluegrass Festival - a lineage including Chris Thile, Greensky Bluegrass, and The Lil Smokies - launched them into an odyssey of national touring, playing alongside artists like Brandi Carlile, Billy Strings, and Emmylou Harris. When the pandemic struck and McNamara's touring life ground to a halt, he turned to self-recording as a salve against great fear and uncertainty. A group of other waylaid Denver songwriters met online each month - the Beaver Moon Songwriting Club - and helped each other keep moving.

MOON CALENDAR represents McNamara's exploration into a more electric and experimental form of his folk writing; a moving pastiche of layered recordings inspired by the sounds of Adrianne Lenker, Bon Iver, The Books, Jason Isbell, and Denver’s own Natalie Tate and Nathaniel Rateliff. No fewer than 16 instruments appear on the record, all played by McNamara himself. As always, he makes generous use of his most dynamic themes: expansiveness and adventure, balanced with isolation and freedom, and of course the perennial search for love.

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released March 10, 2023

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY
TRAVIS MCNAMARA

RECORDED, ENGINEERED, AND PRODUCED BY
TRAVIS MCNAMARA

ADDITIONAL TRACKING AT
MIGHTY FINE PRODUCTIONS
- PIANO ON TRACK 1 ENGINEERED BY LOREN DORLAND
- TRACK 8 ENGINEERED BY COLIN BRICKER
WISE ACRE STUDIO
- DRUMS ENGINEERED BY ALEX JOHNSON ON TRACKS 1 & 5

MIXING BY
XANDY WHITESEL

MASTERING BY
GLENN SCHICK

PHOTOGRAPHY BY
PRESTON UTLEY

ART & DESIGN BY
SCOTT MCCORMICK

TRAVIS MCNAMARA - ACOUSTIC GUITAR, TELECASTER, SLIDE GUITAR, BANJO, PIANO, UPRIGHT BASS, ELECTRIC BASS, ACCORDION, VIBRAPHONE/GLOCKENSPIEL, KEYBOARDS, MANDOLIN, TENOR SAXOPHONE, AUXILIARY PERCUSSION, DRUMSET, PROGRAMMED DRUMS, SAMPLER/DL4, VOCALS AND HARMONY VOCALS

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