17. MAURICE TANI: TAKE ME WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO TOO FAR
(Maurice Tani)
I hear you pacing upstairs
Every night until dawn
Dragging your baggage around
Making your plans to move on
I’ve seen you try it before
But it’s yet to work out
Every road leads somewhere
You haven't found the right route
I watched you soar too high -I saw you plunge too deep
I saw you burn too hot, shine too bright -and sell too cheap
I don't care where you're bound
I need to cover some ground
My bag is packed in your car
Take me with you when you go too far
Take me with you when you go too far
Love is risking it all
Skating out to the edge
I just bleed on the keys
While you stand on the ledge
I want to take that chance
Of going over the falls
This town just blackens the page
While the white water calls
I watched you soar too high -I saw you plunge too deep
I saw you burn too hot, shine too bright -and sell too cheap
I don't care where you're bound
I need to cover some ground
My bag is packed in your car
Take me with you when you go too far
Take me with you when you go too far
My bag is packed in your car
Take me with you when you go too far
Take me with you when you go too far
© Tanitone Tunage (ASCAP)
Maurice Tani: Vocals, Guitar;
Mike Anderson: Upright Bass
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 MAURICE TANI & 77 EL DEORA:
Maurice Tani is a "rye-to-romantic", Supercalifornigraphic, singer-songwriter and veteran band leader on the Alt-Country and Americana music scenes. He and his band, Maurice Tani & 77 El Deora have released six critically-acclaimed albums of original material and
have been the source of untold, but exquisite suffering in the Bay Area for over 10 years.
“I was actually blown away. Maurice Tani writes songs that sound at once familiar, ethereal and beautiful.”
-Robert Sproul, No Depression Magazine
Born and raised in San Francisco, Maurice Tani was too young for the Summer of Love, but was still profoundly influenced by the California culture that gave the world surf guitar, country rock and psychedelic to the singer songwriter types.
Barely into his twenties and hungry for experience, he moved to central Texas to work the hardcore country, blues and rock circuit between Austin and Dallas, playing five sets a night, seven nights a week for months at a time, eventually making connections that led to his moving to New York City just as the punk rock scene of CBGBs and Max's Kansas City was exploding in Lower Manhattan. By 1977 he was back in San Francisco as punk, power pop and new wave was taking hold in the Bay Area and began a stretch of five years and four critically acclaimed albums with ex-Flamin' Groovies front man Roy Loney's band, The Phantom Movers.
Through the rest of the '80s and '90s, Maurice was the lead guitarist and a featured vocalist for Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra and Big Bang Beat, two large, 12-18 piece dance bands that gained worldwide exposure from a 2 hour PBS New Years Eve tri-mulcast (2 television stations with different views and FM stereo radio audio all broadcasting simultaneously) that was broadcast annually for many years on public TV around the US and Europe.
Tani has spent the past 15 years as an active part of the California alt-country/Americana scene. Fronting his own bands, Calamity & Main, 77 El Deora, he has produced a series of albums for himself and others. Tani has constructed a repertoire of rye humor and darker romantic rumination often described as Oblique Americana and Twang-Noir, Tani calls it “Supercalifornographic”.
WHAT IS SUPERCALIFORNOGRAPHIC?
Short for “Supercalifornographicexpealidocious”. While rooted in country music, Tani's writing is centered on a West Coast perspective. “Though much of my material is based on fictional characters and situations, I still write what I know”, said Tani. “I'm not particularly comfortable or interested in the rural imagery of tractors, 4x4s or general agriculture common in much country music. What attracts me most about country is the story-telling side of it. My stories are more likely to be centered around an urban experience. I'm a Californian from a large metropolitan area and I write about the things that hold my attention. I think of these songs as a sort of cinema for the blind. Short musical narratives of life on the left coast.”
Web: www.MauriceTani.com
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