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By The Flood

Earle Peach's first CD, By the Flood, completed in June 2008, shows you what 41 years of songwriting can get you. The music is an extensive sampling of Earle's eclectic musical tastes, with notes of baroque, highlife, blues, country, jazz, celtic and folk sprinkled like angel dust throughout. Here's a (very) brief guide to the tunes that may direct your listening experience:

1. My Choices Are Not Free: an a cappella meditation on war in trad celtic style
2. Africa: a highlife-inspired paean to the mother continent which asks "where are the seeds of freedom?" Many have chosen this as their favorite tune on the album.
3. Bright Star: a yearning song of solitude. Many listeners have also mentioned this tune as a favorite.
4. When the Circus Comes to Town: a raucous, impolite anthem to 'celebrate' the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
5. When I Was a Crow: first-person crow confessional, or is it about the Downtown East Side?
6. Maybe You Should Go For a Drive: a cheerfully bleak swing tune about how cars make us lonely
7. Long Lost Forgotten Waltz: a sweet instrumental waltz featuring the charming violin of Elise Bouer.
8. Palaces of Sand: a slightly psychedelic chamber hymn on the subject of Love, featuring a string quartet
9. Walk in a Mystery: a mysterious, visionary wedding song.
10. Danish Tune & By the Flood: rather baroque violin & guitar
11. Angus McCrimmon: a cappella statement by an old man who'd rather not get married.
12. Don't Come November: how life looks in the dog days of October. Kinda bluesy folk.
13. The Child Song: another meditation with string quartet, on the (missing) child in all of us, and fate.
14. Everybody Knows: Folky tune for everyone who undervalues him or herself.
15. Jacob's Ladder: a solo guitar piece.

Quotes about the CD and Earle’s music

  • “Just listening to your songs on myspace - LOOOVE them...don't come November - so beautiful. Thank you for sharing with the world.”
  • “Amazing stuff”
  • “I've got about 3/4 of the CD on regular playlist rotation. Excellent stuff”
  • “Man, I just LOVE it”