A new Marah album, yeah?
Thursday, February 18th, 2010It's been a full two years since The Last Rock and Roll Band released an album and blew up. Since then, we've had sporadic acoustic shows, months of reported recording, one Internet single, and one of the two brothers departing active duty. Marah as we knew it ceased to exist.
But now we have a new Web single, and we have a release date. The new song is Waiting for a Devil. Music here. Lyrics here. Writes Dave:
I played a borrowed "high string" guitar and one of my brother's rusty old harmonicas i found in a road case. "Waiting for a Devil" is fashioned after some "old time religion" songs that I've grown to really love (Washington Phillips, The Anglin Brothers, Blind Willie & Kate McTell). I sang this song with Christine and she played the Fender Rhodes electric piano. Johnny Pisano played the upright bass and later played electric response lines through a plate reverb. Martin played his drum kit through an old tube amp (but don't blame Marty, i made him do it).
Of course, the forum version of this has a postscript from Dave.
PS-Sorry for being out of touch. Sorry for not posting on the message board much. Sorry for not playing in Pittsburgh more often. Sorry for years of mismanagement and underpromotion. Sorry for not being the biggest band on earth. Sorry for not being Kings of Leon. Sorry for not being 17th runner up on American Idol and selling 13 million albums (this morning). Sorry for being smashed that time you and your fiancee came out to see us in Dallas in front of 30 people. Anyway, miss you guys too, still love ya, see you soon.
And an e-mail version of this intentionally buries the best news for us. "Barring any unforeseen disaster, the new MARAH album called 'Life is a Problem' will be released on June 1st, 2010 and we just know you're gonna love it… Our goal this year is to play all over the globe and have fun bringing cool Rock n Roll music to cool people. See how nice?"
The only music I have in greater quantity than Marah's is Bruce's, and I miss the Kids in Philly real bad. Bring on June and bring on that album. If we've met any time in the last two years, you don't know how much I love this band. I'm glad to have a new reason to tell you about them.
P.S. The departed brother? Maybe the best pic ever of happy life after a rock band. On his kid's first birthday, taken by his cool blogger wife.



