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New Thanksgiving Feast

from Back to My Green by Jess Klein

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    Friends, this album was inspired in large part by my love of nature and our planet. The people, animals and land affected by the horrible fires in Australia require our help. $5 from each Back to My Green Vinyl Album sold will now go to Save the Children's Australia Bushfire Emergency Fund to create safe spaces for kids to just be kids in so that their parents can focus on rebuilding their homes and lives.

    I have chosen to channel the funds through my own bank account rather than PayPal after reading that PayPal charity funds are often delayed by 15-90 days. That seems like too long to wait.

    Thank you for trusting me with your donation!

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    "Back to My Green" is my first new album in FIVE YEARS - now on VINYL!
    In the music business, that is a lifetime.

    I feel like I've lived a whole lifetime since 2014 when I released "Learning Faith." In that time, I fell in love, got married to fellow singer-songwriter Mike June, moved away from Austin, TX and my musical community of eight years to Hillsborough, NC, a tiny town where I'd never been.

    Then the 2016 election happened and everything that came with it. Like a lot of people, I was terrified. As a result I developed an RSI in my arms that made playing guitar and writing very painful. I felt isolated and restricted and depressed.

    But "no" is death for artists, so I had to come up with new ways of doing things, new ways of conceptualizing music, and be willing to put myself out there and collaborate more.

    As a result, "Back to My Green" is about becoming someone new. It's about facing challenges and rising. It's the musical equivalent of standing unprotected with my arms and my heart wide open. It's terrifying...but it's real!

    I had the pleasure of working with Producer Mark Simonsen and Engineer Thom Canova at StudioM in Durham, NC, an... more
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    released January 25, 2019

    All Songs written by Jess Klein C P 2018/ASCAP/House of Leo Music except “In Dreams” written by Jess Klein and Jonathan Byrd/Jonathan Byrd Music/SESAC

    Produced by Mark Simonsen

    Co-Produced by Jess Klein & Thom Canova

    Engineered by Thom Canova

    Jess Klein: vocals, acoustic and electric gtrs, percussion, drums on "For the Girls,"

    Thom Canova: bass, electric gtrs, percussion

    Mark Simonsen: piano, organ, keyboards, electric guitars, drums, vibes, glockenspiel, percussion, vocals

    Guest vocalists:
    Jonathan Byrd sings on For the Girls and Kid
    Gaelynn Lea sings on Blair Mountain

    Mike Grigoni: pedal steel, lap steel

    String trio:
    Laura Thomas: violin
    Aubrey Keisel: viola
    Leah Gibson: cello

    String and horn parts written and arranged by Mark Simonsen

    Recorded at Studio M, Durham, NC & Hondo Creek Studio, Pittsboro, NC

    Mastered by Brent Lambert at the Kitchen Mastering


    Thank you: Mark Simonsen, Thom Canova, Gaelynn Lea, Laura Thomas, Aubrey Keisel, Leah Gibson, Mike Grigoni, Jonathan Byrd for harmonies and, along with Wes Collins, much needed feedback on my songs in progress. Thank you Jim Sellick, Gabi Humphries, Paul McGee, Philippe Hauden, Edgar Heckmann, Blue Rose and SoulFood for helping me see how this thing can fly out in the world. Thank you to Mystery Brewing, the Berlin Brothers and the town of Hillsborough, NC for making music feel fun. Thank you to Mike June who believes in me like crazy and is my backbone when I’m wobbly. He will tell you he does this with his biceps but really it’s his heart.

    I wrote these songs to uplift your soul and mine. Thank you for listening. Xo Jess

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New Thanksgiving Feast

We traced our hands and made paper cutouts
We pasted feathers on
And we would shout out
“I made a turkey”
“I made a headdress”
“I made a pilgrim’s hat”
Then it was recess
And the bell would ring
We’d run into the streets called
“Iroquois”, “Council Rock”, “Cayuga”
Those street signs hid the truth though

Dad put the football on
It felt like family
We’d eat the most we could
Pass out in front of the TV
Grandma and grandpa
They were from Russia
They wouldn’t talk about
What it was like though
I think they would have died
If they had never tried
To come here
Another family knowin’ that fear

Now I think about the English-Irish Servants
Africans they drug across in chains
Chinese and Italian families riding on the waves
While along the pitch pine highway
Near Plymouth Beach
A Wampanoag fights to keep his right to fish the sea
A Wampanoag fights to keep his right to fish the sea
When we all meet our Creator
Which will it be?
Paper cutouts and hollow shells
Or a new Thanksgiving feast
Or a new Thanksgiving feast

Out on an icy plain
Wrapped in blankets and beads
Elders with weathered faces
Faces that read like history
Say a prayer for all of those who’ve come to stand
And a prayer for those firing water cannons
It is a prayer for
The Creator

While on a football field
A man refuses to rise
To salute a country that would let his people die
And though the rage and fear
Swirl around him like a twister
He’s committed to his brothers and his sisters
He’s made a choice he knows
So peacefully he sits there

While along the chilly streets of Boston,
Charlotte, Seattle and DC
People pouring out in numbers never seen before
When we come to face our shadows
Shadows too angry to ignore
Are we gonna tell ourselves it’s down to either/or?
Or will we finally realize we’re meant for something more?
When we all meet our Creator
Which will it be?
Towing the lines, pretending we’re blind
Or a new Thanksgiving feast
Or a new Thanksgiving feast

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from Back to My Green , released January 25, 2019
Produced by Mark SImonsen, Jess Klein, Thom Canova

Engineered by Thom Canova

Recorded at StudioM, Durham, NC

Mastered by Brett Lambert, The Kitchen, Carrboro, NC

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Jess Klein Hillsborough, North Carolina

Rochester, NY native Jess Klein is known for staking out brave lyrical and musical territory with such albums as Wishes Well Disguised (1998), Draw Them Near (2000), Strawberry Lover (2005), City Garden (2006), Bound to Love (2009), Behind A Veil (2012) and Learning Faith (2014) which Folk Radio UK calls “unquestionably the finest album of [her] impressive career.” ... more

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