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| Everything Looks Better in the Dark Close The Door Dime A Dozen Alice Is My Ally Acceleration Legal Gun Tina's Grocery Good 4 Me Paid in Full Hold Me Back Drivin'n'Cryin Ghost Party in the Attic Ace King Queen Jack Ten Yes That's Me Everywhere Is Somewhere |
| Kevn Kinney: music, lyrics, vocals, guitars, 8 string bass Frank French: music & lyrics on "Good 4 Me", portion of lyrics on "Paid in Full", vocals, guitars, mandolin, drums, fretless bass, production & engineering Guests: Michael Kinney, Mary Henschel, Jerry Weldon, Marshall Ethridge, G. Howard Williams, Shannon & Hilary French, Jeanne French, and Face of Concern |
| Cover artwork by Daniel Clowes. Produced & engineered by Frank French. Recorded January 1985 through July 1987 at Frank French Studio 2 in Smyrna, Georgia. Released in the summer of 1987 by David T. Lindsay and Gary Held and Twilight Records and Fundamental Music. |
| I saw Kevn play with the Prosecutors one night at a tiny club on the eastside of Milwaukee. Mary Henschel was also playing that night in another band. The headlining band was a great trio called the Oil Tasters. I had gone specifically to see & hear the Oil Tasters, but I can still recall Kevn's raw enthusiasm. I later met Kevn when I went to work at Radio Doctors, a place where he was already employed. I left Radio Doctors and I left Milwaukee, for good. I came back to Atlanta, playing music full time. I set up Far East Futon Company. After a couple of years I set up Studio 2, which was also called Dragon Path Music. One day, Kevn & Mary showed up. Kevn had also moved to Smyrna, just a few blocks away from me. He had heard from our friend Caleb (from the Oil Tasters) that I had set up a recording studio in my home. Kevn asked about recording with me and I said yes. Kevn brought his band, the Psycho Relics. The first lyric I heard was "Some see a cigarette in the ashtray, I see a Philip Morris man." And I was intrigued with the mind that wrote that. The Psycho Relics fell apart, and Kevn came back to me alone. We started over with just him & me, sometimes Michael. We called ourselves the Lonesome Desperadoes. Then when Kevn & I really got close, we started calling ourselves Drivin'n'Cryin, after the song. I suggested the name as a pun on duos--Homer & Jethro, Chad & Jeremy, Peter & Gordon, Simon & Garfunkel. Kevn brought along Tim & Paul and we began doing gigs around Atlanta in the fall of 1985. It was an exciting time. It was a time of changes. I stayed with them until January 1986, then I turned my attention to producing the Indigo Girls. I saved all of our notes, lyrics, etc. I have wonderful memories of our friendship. It went beyond the time in the studio, beyond the gigs. Thank you Kevn for all you've given me. I used Beggar's Banquet as the blueprint for this album. I limited myself to the 4-track and the 8-track to pay tribute to the sound of that era. This was mastered at Masterphonics in Nashville. |
| Everything Looks Better in the Dark Frank French & Kevn Kinney early Drivin'n'Cryin |
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| the Lonesome Desperadoes at the Metroplex |
| Drivin'n'Cryin Kevn Kinney & Frank French in Kevn's kitchen |
| Kevn Kinney & Frank French in Frank's Studio 2 |
| Shannon French at Far East Futon Co |
| Shannon French |
| Jeanne French |
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