Alfie Smith - Every Rome Needs a Nero

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Album: Every Rome Needs a Nero | Official Website: | Download: | Lyrics:
Every Rome needs it's Nero
Every body needs a grave
Every revolution needs a turnstile
Every master needs a Slave

Every cross needs it's martyr
Every martyr needs a parade
A pot in every chicken
Every neck needs a blade

Not every hate group needs a hood
Not every march needs a path
When things get this bad
They go downhill so fast

There's a fork in the road
There's a blade in the hand
There's a rope in the tree
There's a vigilante Man

There is witch in the creek
Let's see if she floats
Let's build a castle
Let's build a moat

Let's build a wall
Oh so high
With these tiny hands
I can crack the sky

All I need
Is a little more gold
For greed is good
I can be bought and sold

Come on out
It's a holiday
Hate everything
And it's ok

Alternative facts
Hip hip horay
Got to flatten that curve
For judgment day

A shiny new lie
A shiny new gun
Pass the ammunition
Let's have some fun

Up agent the wall
Down on the ground
I can hear them coming
It's such an awful sound

There's a fork in the road
And a blade in the hand
There's a rope in the tree
All hail the vigilante man

Alfie Smith releases his eighth album, Every Rome Needs A Nero, and that is excellent news for blues lovers. The Hamilton-based troubadour is a popular and crowd-pleasing fixture on the Ontario’s blues/folk/roots festivals and club circuit,
His return to the recording arena with Every Rome Needs A Nero finds Alfie at the height of his creative powers. He is a triple threat: a guitar virtuoso fluent on slide and vintage National and resonator instruments, an eloquent songwriter in the classic blues tradition, and a powerful singer with a voice to match his formidable physical presence. That deep voice sounds like it has been dredged from the depths of the muddy Mississippi River. It is rich and earthy, and capable of expressing tenderness, melancholy, joy, and, in the case of the new album’s title track, righteous anger.

Produced by Brandon Bliss

Alfie Smith — Vocals, Guitars
Dave Gould — Drums and Percussion
Justine Fischer — Bass
Troy Dowding — Trumpet
Jesse O’Brian — Piano
Brandon Bliss — Wurlitzer, B3
Melissa Marchese, Jenni Pleau — Background Vocals

Mixed and Engineered by Brandon Bliss at Vine St Studios, Hamilton, ON.

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