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From the album ‘The Bearer Of Bad News’ (2015) • Pay what you want http://tndr.lv/andyshauf

Me and a couple friends, we had a big idea about getting money and getting out of here: we were wide-eyed dreamers of wealth. We were getting tired of killing time, filling up our heads with cheap wine. Jerry had a van so we could make our escape. He would say: “Boys, our time has come to live among the privileged ones.” Now it was Jerry’s plan but we all agreed: skip town and split the money up evenly, lay low ‘til the winter rolled in. He said, “I know an old farmer doesn’t trust the bank, keeps his money buried out behind his water tank. He told me once when he was out of his mind. Oh boys, our time has come to live among the privileged ones.” Now Jerry had a girl, the only one of us to ever have one last and so no questions asked, she’d be the fourth one involved. Her name was Mary-Anne and she was nice enough. Always a cashier, only once in love, with Jerry — the dreamer and the clerk, who said, “Boys, our time has come to live among the privileged ones.” So on that Friday night on which we all agreed, we took our shovels and crept out carefully through the farmyard darker than sin. The plan went off without a hitch ‘til we passed the chicken coop and Mary tripped, turned the hens to sirens in the night. And when the farmhouse lights turned on, a warning shot rang out into the dawn. And we ran like hell for Jerry’s van, but when we arrived we were only three. And while Jerry’s greed fed gas to the engine, his words showed us a coward we’d never seen. As he said, “Boys, our time has come. We’re gonna save ourselves and live among the privileged ones.”

Meticulously written over four years and recorded over one in a makeshift studio set up in his parent’s basement, Shauf, whose delivery at times reminds of Elliott Smith or Paul Simon, plays nearly every instrument on The Bearer of Bad News. The album was crafted on his grandfather’s timeworn guitar and heavily influenced by the aforementioned—and newly learned—clarinet, which was a Christmas gift from family. In spite of his modest recording set-up, Shauf imbued The Bearer of Bad News with an enduring warmth and redolence that lingers long after the album ends.

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