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The Lockhorns EP

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1.	Phebe 04:32	buy track
2.	Something Impossible 03:58	buy track
3.	Pebbles on the Beach 04:28	buy track
4.	I Want You Around 03:38	buy track
5.	The End of the World 03:27	buy track
6.	Line By Line 03:57	buy track
7.	Yes, Spiritual Awakening 03:03	buy track
8.	Peacebird 03:16	buy track

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released August 31, 2020

After the Nightmares broke up in 1987, I did what I mostly did in those days, which was drink, and I did not get anything serious going until the All-Girl Band in 1992. But for five years, I still wrote songs and rehearsed and gigged and recorded sporadically with varying combinations of musicians—often I would just grab whoever was around when I left the apartment.

In any combination, we called ourselves The Lockhorns, after the regressive Bill Hoest one-panel comic that appeared in the Daily News, which I read cover-to-cover every day. When we played live, I would always read the Lockhorns comic of the day out loud between songs.

In 1989, I quit drinking for what would turn out to be two years, and, that summer, before I left for California, in a relatively diligent frame of mind, I worked up a set of songs with Tex and Joe, and we recorded them at Bair Tracks on the Lower East Side. We had a revolving drum chair, but the incomparable Steve Dansiger bailed us out when it came time to record, as he often did. Ed Bair was a guy who had come up from Athens, Georgia, and he was a very good engineer with a good, cheap little studio.

Tracks 1-5 were recorded by Ed Bair at Bair Tracks in 1989, and were distributed on cassette with the title "The Sober Sessions."

Philip: Guitar and Singing
Tex: Guitar & Solos
Joe Katz: Bass
Steve Dansiger: Drums

Will Dial sings harmonies throughout and Bob Ducharme plays the guitar solo on "I Want You Around."

Tracks 6-7 were recorded in 1987 at a place in the West 30s called The Batcave. I forget the guy's name. These sessions were anything but sober. The inexplicable sax on these songs was played by a girl called Julie, a co-worker of Marc's who used to wander into our rehearsals sometimes.

Philip: Guitar and Singing
Josh Korda: Guitar, Keyboards, Background Vocals
Marc Fagelson: Bass, Background Vocals
Steve Dansiger: Drums, Background Vocals
Julie Sussman: Saxophone

Track 8 was recorded at the old WFMU, where the Lockhorns performed a live set in the studio on Nick Hill's show, "The Music Faucet." Antone Desantis set that up and drove us out there, and at the last minute, we dragooned Bob into playing percussion, which ended up including a carefully miked WFMU garbage pail.

Philip: Guitar and Singing
Carrie Hamilton: Harmony Singing
Marc Fagelson: Bass
Bob Ducharme: Percussion

All songs written by me except "The End of the World," which is by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee.

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