Walking Rivers in the Rain

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A new single from the upcoming Penelope's Thrill album, "Twilight on Tunnel Road." As with all the songs on the album, this song is about Lonnie and Chloe, who grow up on nearby farms on the edge of the Driftless Region in southern Wisconsin. This song is Lonnie's--his musing about the mysteries of Chloe, why she always goes out walking along the river when it's raining....
Main guitar on this is a 1966 Guild Starfire XII (my vote for the best electric twelve ever made)
Other guitars are a 1978 Guild S-60 and a Gretch 5622T

lyrics

Walking Rivers in the Rain
Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

Moonlight takes you—takes you far away where we don’t go.
Starlight makes you—makes you so alive I just don’t know.
You won’t say…why you’re so entranced.
You just want all the pleasures and the pain….
Walking rivers in the rain.

When I see you floating far away I wonder why.
When I touch you, I fall into your eyes blue as the sky.
Can’t you see? Can’t you read my mind?
It’s just like the tunnel always swallowing the train.
Walking rivers in the rain.

Bridge:
Sometimes when you’re close beside me,
Something rumbles deep inside me.
In the night I feel you breathing though you’re always gone.

Morning comes and you show up at my door and ask me why…
The things that seem so certain always turn out to be just lies?
Your bloodroot smile, your mayapple morning glow,
your soul like the haunting call of distant cranes….
Walking rivers in the rain.

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released March 24, 2021
Vocals, guitars, bass by Timothy Walsh
Words and music by Timothy Walsh
Recorded and mixed by Timothy Walsh at Yew Tree Studios (that is, a small upstairs room in my house nestled amid century-old yew trees)
©2021 Timothy Walsh All rights reserved
This recording ©2021 Timothy Walsh

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Penelope's Thrill Madison, Wisconsin

Penelope's Thrill is a lucky accident. Lured out of musical retirement by son Andrew, Timothy Walsh dusted off his guitars, including his favorite vintage Guilds and Gretsches, and picked up where he left off 25 years ago playing in garage bands in New Jersey and Boston.
Tim founded Penelope's Thrill as the vehicle for his songs, often pulling in other musicians for particular tracks. ... more

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