Are Dead: The Complete Unreleased Recordings (1995-1998)

by The Maybellines

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1.	Take Me For A Ride 03:58	buy track
2.	Thinkin' About You 03:09	buy track
3.	Did You Call Me Just To Tell Me You Were Happy? 03:45	buy track
4.	All The Songs In G 03:20	buy track
5.	Lit Up Street Lights 03:38	buy track
6.	Rose Coloured Eyes 02:43	buy track
7.	Little White Pills 02:08	buy track
8.	Leave Yourself 01:58	buy track
9.	When It All Came Down 02:29	buy track
10.	Song For K 03:44	buy track
11.	Number 1, Number 2 03:20	buy track
12.	I've Got The Truth 03:11	buy track
13.	Inside Joke 02:30	buy track
14.	Not My Call 03:25	buy track
15.	Always B the Same 04:54	buy track
16.	John Deere Girl 02:45	buy track
17.	Nothing Left To Say 02:33	buy track
18.	Looking For Someone 05:11	buy track
19.	I'm Gonna Miss You 05:55	buy track

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from the liner notes of: The Maybellines Are Dead - 1995-98:

“It actually sounds ‘good’,” Gavin was roughly telling a friend, coming home from first hearing the lost disc you have in your paws. “Why did I break up the band?” Well isn’t that a funny one? Those totally important reasons at the time are either top secret or long forgotten, and sure as hell don’t weigh a squirt now - in the grand scheme of things, anyway. All we know for sure is that the Maybellines died in what Brent and others - including myself considered the band’s prime, their moment of keen possibility. Whether or not you think that’s a good thing probably flirts with your ideas of suicide: isn’t it always better to jump off the gerbil wheel before you fall on your furry, fat face? That way, at least, you can say you ‘didn’t’ try - a generational thing too many of us understand.

I agree with Gavin more than I expected, Gavin with the free middle finger for the cameras. This album is the shit. Brent’s voice is delightfully confident, exploring that stage when all of us first correctly thoughtbeing older and grittier was cool. The cusp of maturity, embracing the music of our blood, knowing that the world is covered in dirt that used to be alive and moving around somewhere.

You can hear Mr. Oliver’s mentors perfectly in his songs, but the lyrics, and this goes for Gav, too, remind me of so many fucking things around here it chills my skeleton. “Thinkin’ about you,” indeed: The band kicking ass wrapped in chicken wire at the Dog. Penny’s hot Maybellines stickers looking up and down at us from unclean toilets and tanks around the town.

Awesomely cruddy cowboy hats on chicks so hot, relationships turned into tissue paper photocopies, seconds before arainstorm. The magic strangeness of Miles Walmsley. And all that money wasted on beer. Finally, Brent’s stunned heartbreak when it ended. But, look, it didn’t end, did it? The tremendous mix on this elaborate post-country tombstone says that actually - something new just started. You grasp here an incredible thing. It’s a refusal to just let something go, that overused mantra of the spineless.

On behalf of many, I raise a glass.

Fish Griwkowsky

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released January 26, 2018

Produced by Johnny Blerot with Brent Oliver & Gavin Dunn
Recorded by Johnny Blerot in 1998 at Wolf Willow Sound
Mixed by Johnny Blerot & Brent Oliver 2005
Mastered by Chris Sturwold in 2005
Digitally Mastered in 2018

Recorded April 1998
Disbanded November 1998

The Maybellines were:

Brent Oliver - Vocals, Bass, Piano, Organ, Acoustic Guitar
Gavin Dunn - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Banjo
Miles Walmsley - Electric Guitar
Gravy - Drums

with
Chris Smith - Pedal Steel, Slide Guitar
Lyle Bell - Guitar on Track 10
Shaun Hosegood - Vocals on Track 8 & 15

Songs 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 17, 19
Written By Gavin Dunn

Songs 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18
Written By Brent Oliver

Artwork by Darcy Twarog

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The Maybellines Edmonton, Alberta

The Maybellines were a roots rock, alt-country band from Edmonton Canada from 1995-1998. These are the unreleased recordings from 1998 for their first full length that never saw the light of day.

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