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This Young Heart

by Cocek! Brass Band

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Each month in 2018 Cocek! Brass Band is releasing a new song with different artist and musician collaborations. The August release features vocalist John Cushing.

Artist Statement:

Working with Cocek on this song was exhilarating while also trying- having worked almost exclusively with my own confrontation of the world, I had a vacillating emotional struggle to interpret the narrative Sam had brought me with This Young Heart. It took some time, but I feel like what we came up with reflects the playful cantor of Cocek’s style while offering a parable to something many of us feel; longing to leave our native community, either in doubt to challenge or curiosity to find - and the more we learn the more we can appreciate what we have or have found.

John Cushing Biography:

John Cushing is a trombonist, composer, singer and educator leading an interdisciplinary professional life as a musician in Boston and New York. His work centers around the cultural investigation of “American Music,” that is the resultant folk and pop musics of the Afro-European and indigenous collide throughout North and South America. As well as this, John also uses songwriting and poetry in a cathartic effort to understand his interpersonal relationship with those closest to him, and in seeking out a sense of “loving” within the broader socio-economic climate of our current worlds.

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In a town not far from here
There lived a young man
He sang beneath the sun
Boy of brawn and simple smile
He was beloved
And gave to everyone

In his heart there was a song
And in the town their lives went on and on
And the people sang along
But he was asking
Where did his heart belong?

Young man tried to understand
What is belonging
Who knows if love is real
Boy became so petrified
There grew a feeling
That he could not conceal

People asked him what was wrong
But he just smiled and told them "please go on"
And in his heart there was a song
He was leaving
One look and he was gone

And he was singing "Da, da da da da da da..."

To the town from far away
The boy had come back
To share what he had seen
Size and smile were magnified
He was believing
In what their love could mean

Asking where and how far gone
He would smile and start to sing a song
They would smile and sing along
And if everything was wrong
They could still just sing along

credits

released August 31, 2018
Sam Dechenne - Trumpet/Composer
John Cushing - Lyrics
Ezra Weller - Flugelhorn
Clayton DeWalt - Trombone
Jim Gray - Tuba
Grant Smith - Tapan Drum

Recording Engineer/Mixing - Craig Welsch
Rear Window Studios - Brookline, MA
Mastered by Kevin Metcaffe

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