Dear John, by Fish & Roses

Dear John

by Fish & Roses

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Originally released in 1990 - It's our third record (and our best, I think) but _Dear John_ seems to be the least known of them. It's certainly the least photogenic, mostly because Sue worked hard on the others! This time I wanted to try something. My ideas were half-baked, inspired by what some friends in Chicago were doing in collaboration with conscientious printers (and I failed to learn from the experience of a friend who kinda/sorta “messed up” the cover of a magazine he’d been entrusted to art-direct). But it wasn’t _all_ my fault, and once we saw the bad results we knew it had to be re-done. The band agreed we’d hire a person who knew what she was doing to help us make a nice, simple, relatively low-tech but attractive new booklet. I still think it looks pretty good and I am pleased we've now found a way to use them! Unfortunately, it seems nearly every copy out there has the ugly original. But, with help from John Henderson(!), we've made a new batch of CDs to go with a recently unearthed stash of the "band-authorized" covers.

So, with this purchase, you'll get a professional "replication" of the CD in a plastic sleeve with the nicely printed (and, recently, subtly rubber-stamped), folded, cover - created by Marjorie Moser way back when...

-rick

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1.	Starry Shirt 02:42		buy track
2.	Cardboard Caged 02:52		buy track
3.	Nothing Thing 03:08		buy track
4.	Polar 01:40	info	buy track
5.	The Letter 02:11		buy track
6.	Young Man Blues 01:47		buy track
7.	These Kids 02:42		buy track
8.	A Song of Longing 02:33		buy track
9.	A Rare One 02:52		buy track
10.	Your New Robot 02:22		buy track
11.	Postcard 02:19		buy track
12.	Bride of Frank Sinatra, Jr. 02:12		buy track
13.	Dictorgan 03:46		buy track
14.	Chaotic 02:05		buy track

about

_Dear John_ was the last full-length release by Fish & Roses, its title intended to be a reference to Hank Williams' song of the same name.
First planned for release on a label called Time to Develop. Honestly, we were not thrilled when the label changed its name to Feel Good All Over, but we hoped for good feelings...

The music was recorded in two batches of sessions, some in Hoboken with Gene Holder and John Siket and a few wintry days in Montreal with Jean Derome and Robert Langlois. (recording dates unclear, but late '89/early '90 seems right).

Remarkably, the mailing address for the band (below) is still valid!

[due to a kink in licensing, streaming of the cover of Mose Allison's "Young Man Blues" is disabled - but purchase gets it to you in download form, and with mechanical license paid as is proper. Thank you Mose.]

credits

released September 2, 2022

FISH & ROSES
Rick Brown: drums, vocals
Sue Garner: bass, vocals, guitar, violin
David Sutter: keyboards, vocal

1, 3, 4, 7 - 11 Produced by Gene Holder
Engineered by John Siket at Water Music, Hoboken, N.J.

2, 5, 6, 12 - 14 Produced by Jean Derome
Engineered by Robert Langlois at Studio 270, Montreal, Quebec

All songs by Fish & Roses (BMI), except "Polar" by Guigou Chenevier (SUISSA), and "Young Man Blues" by Mose Allison (Jazz Edition/BMI)

Jean Derome: alto sax on "Cardboard Caged", bass flute on "The Letter", and baritone sax on "Chaotic" and "Bride of Frank Sinatra Jr."

Willie Klein: guitar on "A Song of Longing"

Chris Stamey: guitar on "Starry Shirt", "These Kids", and "A Rare One"

Jonathan Thomas: lyrics for "Starry Shirt" and "These Kids"

David Zhonzinski: alto sax on "Polar"

Thanks to James Garner, Diane Labrosse, Larry Stanley, Gene, Jean, John, and Robert

[above are credits from the original release. We probably thought it was implicit, but big thanks, too, to John Henderson, Peter Margasak, Willie, Chris, Jonathan, David and Peter and Marjorie]

Fish & Roses
346 East 13th St., Apt. 7
New York, NY 10003

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Rick Brown is the plywood crate guy in 75 Dollar Bill. He's been in bands before...

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Bell System

Nov 2022
Parts and Labor

Feb 2023
Dear John

Sep 2022
Xmas Trips

Dec 2022
Stop Those Songs

Oct 2022
TAPE #1

Dec 2023

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