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If your north star is Townes, or Blaze, or Hank, or Bon Scott or Bonham, and if you spend your life playing in bars, chasing after a dream, then being drunk is part of the uniform. It's fun until it isn't, until it gets a hold of you, until you can't see a way out. For the lucky ones, sometimes the way out is love. I fingerpicked a few chords and told the truth. Joe stood in the bathroom and yelled his harmony. Harmonica, pump-organ and violin brought it all together.

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Once I played in a rock & roll band
Once I hit the road and I never looked back
And never once I thought to ask
Did it mean something that all my heroes drank themselves to death?
I just played their songs, and sometimes had
A few too many beers after my set
Cause Hell, I deserved it
I deserved it

But there's a darkness that lures you in
In a painted smile it'll call you a friend
But it's the Wolf and you're the Lamb
And I let it take every goddamn thing I had
And when I'd driven off the last of my friends
And I had nothing left to give
I told myself I deserved it
I deserved it

But that was all before
Now I sit and watch the roses bloom by our front door
Cause you let me see
A second chance is just the start of what forgiveness really means
And I'm not promising that I'll ever be perfect
But I married you in Spring
And every morning now I wake up there beside you
And I look at the ring
And I’ll try to deserve it
To deserve it

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from Nothing Stays The Same Way For Long, released September 16, 2022
Steve Wallis: guitar, vocals, harmonica
Joe Boon: vocals
Dan Walker: reed organ
MorganEve Swain: violin

Written by Steve Wallis
Produced by Joe Boon & Steve Wallis
Recorded and Mixed by Joe Boon
Mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering

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Steve Wallis Paris, France

Steve Wallis writes honest, clear eyed folk songs, driven by his shrewd fingerstyle guitar, and his wry gift for finding joy in the melancholy. His songs are old letters from ex lovers, regrets folded into fond souvenirs, that final glance back before rushing onwards.

In 2018, Steve's song 'Melbourne Rain' reached new success after it was featured in PS4 game Detroit: Become Human.
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