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The Gristle & Bone Affair

by Terry Lee Hale

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Oh Life 05:55
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Fish 05:43
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Alive Inside 04:43
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Doesn't Matter Anymore 03:35
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Gone 04:44
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Curve Away 05:32
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Time Is A River 05:13
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All Fall Down 03:22
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We're more than happy to show you the new song by Terry Lee Hale taken from the upcoming album “The Gristle & Bone Affair” coming Sep 2nd via Glitterhouse Records.

An album counts the miles and years. It’s a set of stories about people, about emotions and follies, and triumphs. About the changes in life. “The Gristle & Bone Affair”, Terry Lee Hale’s 14th record, the second he’s made in his home of 20 years in France, and first in his recently adopted city of Marseille. This finds him considering the life he left behind in the US, his time in Europe, and at some of the things the future might hold.

It’s an album that’s taken time, three years in the writing and recording that started before the pandemic stopped the world. It also marks a vastly different approach to writing songs for Hale. Instead of the fingerpicked guitar front and centre, often his hallmark sound, now the instrument – and his voice - stand as the bedrock of all the music here; he’s become part of the ensemble.

“I’m older, content to step back and let the music speak for itself,” he explains. „It’s enough to contribute at a base level, to be part of a collaboration. I wanted to leave room for others to fill in their parts. We all recorded separately, no choice with the lockdowns. I had no idea what the others were going to do.”

Listen to the opening track, “Oh Life,” where Žiga Golob’s (Chris Eckman, Steve Wynn) warm, plucked notes on the contrabass makes an introduction for Hale’s crisp yearning falsetto calls, an evocation of an American West that’s all but vanished. It’s a testament to a life filled with journeys, looking back over the distance covered and its cost.

But this isn’t the end of the road, by any means. It’s a turn, the start of another part of the journey. The result of three years of thinking, writing, listening, and recording.

It’s a journey below the flesh, going down deep, all the way to the gristle and bone.

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released September 2, 2022

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It started as a fanzine, in 1981. Deep in the middle of nowhere, in a hick town in Germany. Soon after, Glitterhouse was a record label, too. And a mailorder. And suddenly, in 1984, GLITTERHOUSE RECORDS became a profession.

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