A Hard Day's Night, by Dale Strachan

A Hard Day's Night

by Dale Strachan

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1.	Sad Gordon 03:30	buy track
2.	Cheese Popcorn 03:03	buy track
3.	Big Wheels 02:55	buy track
4.	Rejection 04:08	buy track
5.	Find A Man 03:04	buy track
6.	How's The Weather There 03:08	buy track
7.	She's The One 03:21	buy track
8.	Stay There 02:53	buy track
9.	I Can't Want That 03:06	buy track
10.	Good Idea 03:33	buy track
11.	Murray 02:51	buy track
12.	Baby's In A Bad Way 03:40	buy track
13.	Vanity 03:57	buy track
14.	New Humiliation 04:14	buy track
15.	Drunk In My Backyard 02:57	buy track
16.	Head Of A Pin 03:01	buy track
17.	Ballad Of Pete's Lament 03:03	buy track
18.	You Can Shout 03:46	buy track
19.	Empty Head 02:38	buy track
20.	The Waiter 06:22	buy track
21.	All Things Must Pass 03:53	buy track

about

Dale wanted to be heard. Through his music he expresses everything from pain and hatred to pain and nausea and it is beautiful. Very rarely did he write about hope or happiness, but each song has such heartfelt sentiment that it is hard to separate the pain from the act of creativity.

All his life he wanted to write songs, not only for other people but for himself. If only that had been enough to clear his head of all the things that hurt him. When Dale created a song he struggled to condense a huge amount of feeling into three or four minutes, it consumed his life. The act of writing did not come easily for him.

You need to do more than listen if you want to know what's hurting someone. You need to see them and feel them and hear them. Through Dale's art we see a world that is not perfect, but he expressed the truth beautifully.
- Gwen

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©1995 Dale Strachan/Quagmire Records

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released July 12, 2013

Dale Strachan - A Hard Day's Night

Produced and Engineered by Dale Strachan and Tim Alexander
Recorded at AWF Studios 1991-1995

The Musicians
Dale Strachan: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion
Tim Alexander: guitars, vocals
Jim Callahan: drums, vocals
Dave Mayer: guitars, pedal steel, mandolin
Marc Spooner: keyboards
Steve Scarpelli: drums
Chris Coluzzi: drums
Biskit: feedback (The Waiter)

Art: stove and bab
Photos: hooch

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Dale Strachan California

Dale Strachan was a gifted songwriter & guitarist originally from Bozeman Montana. In the mid 1980's he moved to Venice Beach and began his songwriting career in earnest, playing in The Larry Tate Experience & A Western Front. Moving to the Bay Area, he married a beautiful Montana woman and had two beautiful boys. His music is rife with irony & sadness. Dale died by suicide in 1995. We love Dale. ... more

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