emily duff born on the ground

​Emily Duff (from the album Born on the Ground available on Mr. Mudshow Music)
Giving the new year her own 20/20 visions of her past, Emily Duff uses Born on the Ground to tell nine stories of relationship break-ups. The title track looks at life from the bottom up when Born on the Ground tells a story of the street while Emily Duff packs a wallop with her brand of ‘Sweet & Sour Rock’n’Roll with a Great Big Hit of Country Soul’ (her words) as she delivers “Knuckle Sandwich” and lassos a Lower East Side beat to play a train song in “We Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”. Not necessarily a cathartic exercise, Emily Duff wanted the woman standing with feet firm in today to once again walk through the stages of love, feeling that ‘I wanted to examine emotional wounds through the mature lens of time with the self-confidence, faith and the wisdom of motherhood and marriage. On my own from a very young age, I grew up rudderless, without positive role models for relationships and grew from tragedy, loss and trial and error to understand where true love & happiness lives for me today.  Self-worth is something like planting a garden and understanding that what is born in and on the ground will someday, with work and a little bit of luck, be able to nourish and feed others well. Break-ups are not always with lovers. You can break-up with family members, careers, friends, political parties and bad habits as well.  Yes, breaking up can be hard to do, but sometimes it’s how you save your own life’.
The stories tell themselves as the band propel the tales along on a bed of Country Rock’n’Roll, recorded at Cowboy Technical Services under the guidance of Eric “Roscoe” Ambel (The Del Lords, The Yayhoos, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts) in the producer’s chair. Emily Duff’s band (Scott Aldrich, Skip Ward, Charlie Giordano and Kenny Soule) was the anchor for the live recording, supporting Emily and background vocalists, Syd Straw, Mary Lee Kortes & Tricia Scotti. Producer Eric Ambel directs the band using his electric guitar as a baton, scattering snarling notes on the Country Rock’n’Roll jangle of “Forever Love” as Born on the Ground shakes out a love letter on the scratchy percussion of “Something Sexy” while a dancehall band supports the athletic goals of “No Escape”. 
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