Song: Ocean (Video)

"Boundless waves and bountiful dreams within your reach
look beyond the city strife confusing the life you lead"

Executive Summary: simple, soaring singalong
Arrangement: acoustic
Lead vocal: Shelley
Wild card: delicate mando solo by Chris, and crowd particiption in some versions
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Lazy Porch Dogs 1995-10-20 WOW Hall, Eugene OR. from WOW Hall Archive on Vimeo.

Man, this one's so sweet I'm not even gonna try to tell you. There it is. Check it out.

Big ups to James for the video hookup. We'll work on more as time permits.

Song: Victim of Circumstance

"I'm here as promised, if not as foreseen"

Executive summary: Jambay's version of a slow blues, I guess
Arrangement: electric
Lead vocal: Shelley
Wild card: perfectly smooth acceleration from a crawl to a gallop
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Victim of Circumstance is an oddball even among Jambay songs, an extended, grueling tension and release exercise that builds in a long, smoldering burn from a plodding pulse to a blazing peak and then drops suddenly back. It seethes with emotion, sketched out in two minimalist verses of alienated desire. Like many of the best Jambay songs the match between the lyrics and music is amazingly apt, and so the whole is incredibly expressive without saying too much. I will follow this example tonight.