Name: Back Then (bonus track!)
Duration: P00H04M34S
Description: Bonus track! Memories from 1978-1984 in Greenwich Village, NYC.

Back Then (bonus track!)

from EPIPHANY MACHINE by Louie Fleck

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Bonus track! Memories from 1978-1984 in Greenwich Village, NYC.

lyrics

BACK THEN

Back then when I lived downtown, always looking for a thing to do

On Mondays I’d head to Bleecker St, try to play me a song or two.

Kenny’s Castaways auditions, or the Back Fence for a spot

Pick a card at Folk City and hope to Hell for an early slot

Back then, every one was a hanging around

Back then, New York was a folkie punky music town

Back then, I had a job… I was working in a bakery

And the Village was the only place to be

Mondays at six I’d have to go to the Cornelia St Café

For the songwriter’s weekly workshop, with a brand new song to play

Too many names to mention, but I’m gonna try now still…

Shawn Colvin and Frank Christian, Kaplanski and Massengill

Jack Hardy, Peter Spencer, Maggie, and Terre, and Suzzy too

Caroline Mas, Suzanne Vega, Stevie Forbert was passing through

George Gerdes and Mark Johnson, and that’s just to name a few

There was a guy that looked like Dylan and another that looked like you!

Back then, I was working in a funky dive bar

Back then, no-one I knew, ever owned a car

Heading home you never knew who you might meet ,

On a bender, day or night, just walking down the street

And over in Washington Square, in the home of the first folk scare

Human TV, and Charlie Barnett, and Rick Aveles were telling jokes there

The little feast on Carmine Street, Connie Francis once sang there too

Tiny expensive record stores in basements off of Sixth Avenue

Back then, with the Bleecker Street Cinema crew

Did you know (for a minute), yes, I worked there too?

I started a band called the Dinette Set with some fellas and a gal I knew

And we played at that drag club was called SNAFU

The Bagel, Sandolinos, the Big Apple Bakery,

Charles Ludlam and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company

Music Inn, Alan Block, Blazing Salads, Jimmy Day

Even the Disc-o-rama, they are all long since gone away

We must’ve seen everyone who passed through the village back then

Over at Matt Umanov, the Bottom Line or the Bitter End

It may still be a hip place, but I tell you now, I can’t leave too soon

Not much is still left standing, but Panchitos and Mamoun

Back then, the village was a very good place to eat…

Best pizza in the world on almost every street

Back then, back then, Oh if we could go back again…

Back then, what a time we had my friend

Back then, the village was a very good place to meet…

Back then the memory still is tasting sweet

Back then, back then, Oh if we could go back again…

Back then, what a time we had my friend

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from EPIPHANY MACHINE, released June 1, 2023
All parts by Louie Fleck

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Louie Fleck New York

Composer, Engineer, Producer, Bassist, Guitarist and one-finger keyboard player! He has played in numerous bands, written musicals, composed sound design for film and theater.

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