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Live In The Acoustic Asylum

by Jon Gomm

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Steve Lawson
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Steve Lawson That Mr Gomm is very clever, and knows how to crank out the hits. He's like the Venga Boys of guitar! (Love this a whole lot!) Favorite track: Temporary (Live).
Dan Maharry
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Dan Maharry An 'as live' album of live show favourites that have never been recorded before from a master of all-in-one percussive fingerstyle guitar? Don't mind if I do. Favorite track: Orville (The Secret Of Learning To Fly Is Forgetting To Hit The Ground) (Live).
Bob Spector
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Bob Spector Wizardly guitar that at its best challenges the flamenco masters, an almost eerily wonderful high tenor voice, rhythmic drive -- what's not to like? Alas, the miking is such that the lyrics are hard to understand. But the music is easily worth the price (and more)
anyway. Favorite track: Hey Child (Live).
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I remember that kiss, It was a moment of pure bliss My stomach went tight, My head set alight, And I thought “hey what’s this?” I remember your arms, And a few other bodyparts, And I knew I’d make sure, That nothing of yours, Would go unexplored And I sang... “I don’t need no food, Just give me Gloria And I don’t need no music, When I’m with her” I remember your dad, Cos he had a skinhead And he had a tattoo, That the years had turned blue, It said “don’t fuck with me” I remember your house, In the yard was a kitchen sink And your mum would make tea, And Benson’s for three, And tip me the wink And I sang... “I don’t need no food, Just give me Gloria And I don’t need no music, When I’m with her” I remember your kiss punch, Cos you nearly brought back my lunch But the most painful part, Was I knew that you’d hate me for evermore But I think of you still, In fact you’re actually in my will I leave you my car, It’s been pretty far, And it doesn’t like hills And I sing... “I don’t need no food, Just give me Gloria And I don’t need no music, When I’m with her”
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On a train, the landscape is a rush-a grey, And tears are streaming down the window pain, I contemplate nothing Old man sits down and faces me, He’s got a smile, I think it’s aimed at me, He says “I know your problem,” “If music’s for dancing, And magic’s for the spellbound, And love is for lovers, What’s left for you?” I ask “What the hell’s that supposed to mean?” He says “Listen man, you’re the door now here’s the key, Just open up and you’re free,” “You wonder why you never understand, And everybody seems to have their masterplans, But you don’t know nothing” “If music’s for dancing, And magic’s for the spellbound, And love is for lovers, What’s left for you?” But his words they seemed like mockery, And nobody’s allowed to teach me, nobody can teach me nothing.
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In the morning the unforgiving sunlight tears the night apart Then in the evening, a day of living later, you’re bruised and battlescarred When the truth hits you, she softens the blow And you still fall down like you always did, but she never lets you hit the floor... The world melts down into my pillow I’m wading into the Afterglow The seed that I’ve sown, now it has grown and it curls its vines around me The flowers bloom, their thick perfume intoxifies me But she breathes new oxygen And the mouth to mouth sends us flying south to where the weather’s warm for sure The world melts down into my pillow I’m wading into the Afterglow
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Hey child wearing somebody else's shoes What's the matter, got your feet dirty on the ground? You look funny, wearing your mother's heels Working nights, and then later you're taking to ground Buy you dinner just to put something on your bones Give you money, expect nothing in return I don't love you, but somebody surely should
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She’s panic buying, walking down the aisle that she feels identified in It’s number seven, where the colour smears into photographs of heaven Don’t raise your voice if you’re talking to me We’re only Temporary She plays the numbers, seconds hiss away until a day is just a flicker Her goddess slumbers, waiting in her dream until the memory is quicker Don’t raise your hands it’s easy can’t you see We’re only temporary
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It’s high noon at the Last Chance Saloon Second home to racketeers Where magic man sells his masterplan He’s a global pioneer He says “Villains roam towards our homes And they’ll burn away the clouds, But my new invention, my weather engine Is already eastward bound” Terraform the desert into paradise With our weather machine We’ll perform the necessary sacrifice With our weather machine So the giant device spewing liquid ice Is flown to foreign lands Where the locals curse their forever thirst And the neverending sands But the rain falls hot with a kilowatt Of the magic man’s bloodlust And funny little rivers form Black ribbons in the dust Terraform the desert into paradise With our weather machine We’ll perform the necessary sacrifice With our weather machine Spinning words at the hungry herds He’s twisting a new truth It’s the magic man and his faithful gang Dreaming of eternal youth He says “Villains roam towards our homes And they’ll burn away the clouds But worry not cos I wrote the plot And I know how it turns out”
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9 track album of new and improved, completely live performances of fan favourites and overlooked gems from my canon. Recorded for the current series of videos, but the audio was so nice I just had to release it.

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released September 8, 2015

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Jon Gomm Leeds, UK

British acoustic guitar virtuoso and singer-songwriter, known for his viral Youtube tunes Passionflower, Ain't Nobody and for being a willfully independent non-corporate type dude.

Only music downloads are available from Bandcamp. Get my CDs, guitar tabs and other lovely merch only from jongomm.com
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