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I just posted -- well, okay my miracle-working webmaster grant just posted -- a new batch of demos on the Playlist Page. They're all songs I wrote last year except for one, which was written in late December of 2007.
He's also put up a link to the lyrics if you go for that sort of thing.
Enjoy yourselves.

Bob,

Just read the new lyrics. Lindcredible, as usual. Thanks, man, you're the best!

Great stuff, thanks Bob!

I'm especially partial to Let It Go and Maybe It's The Rain. The tension in the 'guitar and vocals only' songs always gets me. Pure magic.

The Outsider's Dream is DEEP!

Sounds Like Goodbye is another fave.

Bob ... your lyrics in these 2008 "demos" ...are brilliant ... your poetry gets better every year ! My favourites : "Sounds Like Goodbye to Me" and " Let It Go".

I'll bet that I'm in the minority but after only one listen of each, my favorite is "Somewhere in this City."

Can't wait for that upcoming new studio album to hear some of these demos from the last few years really flushed out; from Roll the Windows Down all the way to these new ones!

Yep, Terry...

"Somewhere In This City" - and, "Let It Go", for me...

"Let It Go" displays that 'edge' that come commentators say is sometimes apparent in Lind's later work...

I can hear "SITC" now, say, as an album opener? - classy band backing with drums up-front, rolls'n'all, and the Lind vocal soaring over all...

and, great as they sound now, can't you just imagine "China" and "Gravity" when Lind et al polish the delivery via studio technology?

and "Two Women" - I hope - with a meandering sax following the lyric line...

(Fingers crossed for some of the rumoured legendary 'lost' Lind 60's-70's songs - dusted off, done up and laid upon us...)

and maybe some guests - Lind friends - Arlo Guthrie, Jimmy Webb, Jarvis Cocker, Neil Young etc.

The only thing I can add to the above, is that any song that mentions the word "underpants" gets a prize for originality!

I ,for one, believe that "The Saints had it Easy" is among the five
or so Finest Things Bob has ever Written. I have had it playing in a
Constant Loop for Hours (Honestly) while on the Computer.

When he rises to Sing "Easy" and "Clearly to Me" it's absolutely
Chilling.

Hey Bob 32...

"underpants"...were you trying to be jocKular...? "Hey...How Can You Go?"

Hey Joey...

"The Saints.." ...yep, the vocal's true...sorry, but the content leaves me cold...I gave up on fairy tales years ago...

...raised as a Mick, brain-washed at school/Church...when reason took over, it was like stepping out of the dark into the light...

To each his own...

Hi Danny, I ,too, where Taught by the Nuns of St. Anthony's. I certainly
am not super Religious, but would not consider this in a "Fairy Tale"
Realm in the Least.

These new songs blow me away, especially "Somewhere in the City" and "Sounds like Goodbye to me". The lyrics are among the best Bob has ever written--maybe the best. How intimately i know the feelings behind both. As far as "The Saints had it Easy" goes, how on earth does it resemble a belief in fairy tales? My interepretation of the song is that it is about doubt, not blind faith in religious doctrine. It is about questioning, and a longing to have a faith one can be sure of. And I don't think it is necessarily about Christianity per se, although he uses Christian imagery (since it is the most well known to the majority of us). To me it is an expression of wanting the kind of unequivocal belief the saints had in the unseen. JMHO, as the saying goes.

Ouch! -, Daniel H. - and peace be with you...

I shall keep out of the lions' den, and merely savour the flavour of Lind-iment...

Hey ... Good to see some healthy discussion beginning about lyrics...I put up my hand ! "The Saints" grabbed my attention immediately I first heard it - Thinks me - "What is this doing here amongst the Demos" ... Thinks again ... Bob you are now cutting new path right alongside the path to realism he's been walking for a while now.... This is a part of Bob we haven't heard before...maybe some fans wont get it. And to my delight Daniel H and Danny Harris have chimed right in. Tear it apart - Love it ..whatever we think I bet Bob will want to hear our reactions.

Danny--I guess we are both in the Lion's Den--after all we are both named Daniel, lol. Now that's Bibilical! But as the song says, "don't be concerned"--I always appreciate your comments even if i approach things from a different perspective.

All hail Maddo & Daniel H.: - I think it's called "Perspective"?

Points well made, and made well...

Now...we have the Music, we have the/a novel: so where's the DVD of young Lind?

I hate to sound ungrateful, but...