Next of Kin - Basement Session

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Sometimes the one you love loves someone else...

Our banjo player Doug brought this to the group and we knew immediately it was something special. This was recorded on one microphone in our basement home studio and will be on our next EP release!

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Winding is the valley
The river deep and wide
That held my little sweetheart
From dear old by and by

Her skin is soft and tender
Her hair a silken brown
She speaks in golden whispers
Could rue these mountains down

Harken at her doorstep
Till yonder comes that man
He's come to see my sweetheart
To steal her back again

His voice is dark and handsome
He takes her on his knee
And offers her fine jewelry
And other fancy things

Smoke in the valley
Rises to the hill
If she doesn't love me now
I guess she never will
Notify my next of kin
To lay my casket down
When I come back tomorrow
You can put me in the ground

Yonder they did wander
To a cabin by the lake
And yonder I did follow
My love I won't forsake

While they both were sleeping
I boarded up their doors
And lit a box of tinder
Upon their cabin floor

The fate of their courtship
The sight I could not bear
I fled to the mountains
And wept of despair

If copper were silver
If water were wine
And if he'd never met her
Then she would still be mine

Smoke in the valley
Rises to the hill
If she doesn't love me now
I guess she never will
Notify my next of kin
To lay my casket down
When I come back tomorrow
You can put me in the ground

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released October 25, 2022
Doug Myers (Banjo, Vocals, lyrics and music)
Colin O'Gorman (Vocals)
Dave Shields (Guitar, Vocals)
Nolan Gardner (Bass, Vocals)

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Turtle Ridge Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Turtle Ridge is a folk band composed of Colin O'Gorman (vocals), Dave Shields (guitar/vocals), Doug Myers (banjo, vocals) and Nolan Gardner (upright bass, vocals). They reside in the beautiful hills of Roxborough and perform original songs as well as covers anywhere people will listen. ... more

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