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Summery single for a summer-ish weekend:

I've always loved the word "chimes" and "chiming" to describe a Peter Buckian/Roger McGuinn/Byrds/Rickenbacker guitar part, so I wrote a tribute to the word itself--and to the feeling of unrequited love. I was thinking about being a little kid having a crush on a neighbor and how the simple sound of her backyard wind chimes could cause a flutter/ache in my heart.

This is the first single off our new Jim Walsh & The Dog Day Cicadas LP, out sometime next year. Recorded/mixed/mastered at Uptown Sound Recording in Minneapolis by the great Rob Genedak who plays bass, drums, tambourine, and good juju. Guitars and vocals by me and Doug Collins; vocals by Shawn Stelton and Charlie Varley.

More to come!

Pay what you can, thanks for the support, sing along if you dig it, feels so good...

lyrics

Chimes, chimes, chimes, chimes
Ringing from your backyard
Traveling for four blocks
To my heart

Chimes, chimes, chimes, chimes
Like The Byrds in Laurel Canyon
Twelve strings are my companion
Eight miles high
Eight miles high
Eight miles high

And I love you and you love me
But maybe we're not meant to be
But I don't wanna hear that
No I don't wanna hear that
All I hear are

Chimes, chimes, chimes, chimes
Like The Byrds in Laurel Canyon
Twelve strings are my companion
Eight miles high
Eight miles high
All these
Chimes!

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released June 3, 2022
Vocals and guitar: Jim Walsh, Doug Collins
Vocals: Shawn Stelton, Charlie Varley
Drums/bass: Rob Genedak

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Jim Walsh & The Dog Day Cicadas Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jim Walsh is a songwriter, journalist, and author from Minneapolis.The former leader of REMs, Laughing Stock, the Mad Ripple and the Mad Ripple Hootenanny, The Dog Day Cicadas is Walsh's main passion play of the day

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