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Family Album

by Buick Audra

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1.
True Story 02:51
I’m named for platform shoes my mother saw on my Aunt Nancy’s feet oh, Bicentennial, we hope you’re ready for this baby’s dreams (why would I lie to you? ask anyone, they’ll say the story’s true) I gave my heart away at age thirteen, in my World History class I know him to this day he’s still a big part of my circus act (now, would I lie to you? ask anyone, they'll say the story’s true) and it keeps going I gave up on knowing why I have to live a life that’s so fantastically outside of what one thinks of as reality I learned to play guitar ten years before I learned to change the strings I wished upon a star and here I am surrounded by such things I made by heart and hand there’s a magic to “I think I can” and it keeps going I gave up on knowing why I have to live a life that’s so fantastically outside of what one thinks of as reality I had a song to sing I said, “make music with me," he said “no” I put down everything and wrote an album about letting go now my heart is free, and don't you know that man is loving me
2.
somethin’ ‘bout your smile takes me down too far I hover just above heartache; I know who you are you love the blue, but I’m heading for the red somewhere in-between, my world goes violet I count on you, and you count me in seems fair enough, I guess, but with you I never win they say that in time, things all fall into line but I am here, getting older, while you, (yeah you) you’re just getting younger all the time cuz in my eyes, you’ve got the world, you’ve got your girl, and you’re on your way, from what I see and through your eyes, I wonder, when you’re looking . . . let me see those eyes, oh no, don’t you look that way at me I know that in time, things all fall into line but I am here, getting older, and you (yeah you), you’re just getting younger all the time
3.
These Hands 03:09
these hands may not look like much ain’t got no Midas touch, but they are mine these hands are a little rough but they are soft enough to be fine (maybe it’s more than I can take) these hands sew a steady line they learned to play in time, and they are strong these hands never get a break they’re working every day, and the days are getting long (and maybe I want it all my way, maybe I’ll get it all someday) then nobody can take it from me if I’m all that I ever need I’m gonna make it, any way I can I will get there because of these two hands these hands have my father’s shape but in a different way, I have his lines these hands hold my mother’s dreams of who I’m gonna be but, all in my own time (maybe they were my dreams anyway) and nobody can take it from me if I’m all that I ever need I’m gonna make it, any way I can I will get there because of these two hands
4.
how could I forget to tell you that I’m proud of you? oh, you know how I get, I only want the world, it’s true I’m not as strong as you think; I’m stronger if love is forever and a day, I’ll love you longer if you should ever lose your way, I’ll try harder I’m not as strong as you think; I’m stronger the rest is out of reach, so rest your pretty head the more you try to figure out, the less you get to know instead and we are just fine, you are always on my mind and please, just know this, ‘til the end of time I’m not as strong as you think; I’m stronger if love is forever and a day, I’ll love you longer if you should ever lose your way, I’ll try harder cuz, I’m not as strong as you think; I’m stronger
5.
maybe we can find the time to ask ourselves the reason why answers are so hard to find behind the static of our minds a circumstance should not define your definition of the time the colors fade and turn to white like a moon that hides on a cloudy night now, I will make this right though we know I did it wrong but, we’ll always live inside this song thinking back, I almost cry at the times I chose to run and hide cuz, when you choose to not decide we sell our choices to spite our pride time will tell what was wrong and right just let me walk into the night you can’t tell me what’s wrong and right this is lonely, this is mine now, I will make it right though we know I did it wrong but, we’ll always live inside this song now, I will make this right though the road, it seems so long just say that you’ll stay until I’m gone until I’m gone
6.
it’s a long way back to that town of yours on the open road from Tennessee eighteen hours and every mile makes me sad Roanoke doesn’t know me, but I pass her by every month when I’m dragging myself back to you there are times when I can’t get nothin’ done you’re the only one I want to see and the crimes that I commit to myself are the ones that keep me from being free I just want some peace in life Lord, I’m ready, rain it down on me cuz I’m dragging myself through for you yeah you, you may be the younger you may be the kid you may be in trouble but, honey, I don’t care about what you did you just remember who you really are you are your only sister’s Northern star I’ll be waiting for you down in Nashville I guess it’s really not that far New York is on the way my old friends are there, but I can’t stay it just reminds me of all that time, when I let my heart get left behind it’s crazy how the time can pass and how the sweeter days go by so fast I have to find my way back to me, for you cuz you, you may be the younger you may be the kid you may be in trouble but, honey, I don’t care about what you did you just remember who you really are you are your only sister’s Northern star I’ll be waiting for you down in Nashville I guess it’s really not that far
7.
I’m out of my favorite fold I’m a page still turning, a baby learning to crawl and this yellow brick road, it feels long and dirty I’m way past the 4 a.m. call this doesn’t feel like home oh no, this doesn’t feel like home at all I don’t feel like myself but, they can’t tell I’m being someone else this body is all that I own and it fails me daily, and your good thoughts can’t save me part of the problem, I am told is my want for something I saw in some movie but I, I drove a thousand miles yeah, I drove a thousand miles, to build a brand new lie I built a brand new lie I don’t feel like myself but they can’t tell I’m being someone else
8.
Easy Now 01:52
good morning, E blues I’m doing alright without you hope you don’t mind standing but, you must understand that I know you’re not leaving I can’t pay for your stay you can take it or leave it but, you better believe it easy now, don’t be in no hurry easy now, don’t make me worry just you-and-me blues far back as I remember wouldn’t know what to do it seems empty without you let me hold onto this good thing I’ve got going oh, we all know it won’t last and it’s slipping by so fast easy now, don’t be in no hurry easy now, don’t make me worry
9.
it would be so easy to love you again it would be so easy to be so much more than a friend time hasn’t changed a thing you still make those love bells ring it would be so easy to love you again it would be so easy to show you right now it would be so easy to tell you that I remember how to let my love surround you let my love astound you, darling cuz, it would be so easy to love you again lettin’ you go the first time was my biggest mistake oh, but if I get another chance to love you if I get another chance to love you baby, it’s a chance, I might have to take it it would be so easy to follow you there it would be so easy to show you how much I still care I never have understood how I turned and I walked away from love so good it would be so easy to love you again
10.
I’ve been holding in favor of doing it all alone I’ve been wasting my labor on building pride the winds that blow from the Southeast, connect to something in my soul they say, “let it all go now, come on, child... it’s a miracle to be alive” I want to swim free in the same old water I want to sit still under the same old sun I want to love strong as the same old daughter I want to lie down when the day is done oh, I hear the Florida birds calling me home I’ve been loving in patterns, with dotted lines for where to cut making stories into fabrics I combine and you might say that it don’t matter, but, my sweet love, it really does wait 'til you end up with the wrong heart, just the wrong size it’s a miracle that we still try I want to swim free in the same old water I want to sit still under the same old sun I want to love strong as the same old daughter I want to lie down when the day is done oh, I hear the Florida birds calling me home outside my window, are the sounds of where I’m from every morning, they still come oh, how do we grow old, and still get broken down to tears by the sounds of all those years ago? maybe it’s been too long now, I’ve been gone and on my own I’ll be flying by nightfall… I’m going home
11.
if I should leave you try to remember the good times warm days filled with sunshine and just a little bit of rain and if you look back try to forget the bad times lonely blue and sad times and just a little bit of rain and if I look back I will remember all the good times warm days filled with sunshine and just a little bit of rain
12.
coming up faster than the light of dawn waiting on chances 'til they’re almost gone if you lose out you won’t prove that you were right closing the house down where you don’t live making a list of loves that you won’t give but the words you write out still don’t change that you never tried say goodnight to every tired day say goodbye to all your tired ways it’s come time now, for you to finally say hello, to something you don’t know you were a child once, but now you’re grown out in the big big world, kids of your own you can hide out but you will find that you’re all alone say goodnight to every tired day say goodbye to all your tired ways it’s come time now, for you to finally say hello, to something you don’t know

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released February 22, 2011

TTS040

All songs written by Buick Audra, with the exception of:

"Say You'll Stay" - written by Boey Russell Bertold
"Easy Now" - written by Randall Eugene Prentice
"It Would Be So Easy" - written by Jane Catherine Huebsch
"Little Bit of Rain" - written by Fred Neil
"Something You Don't Know" - written by Buick Audra and Mario Quintero

Produced by Buick Audra and Mario Quintero

Recorded by Buick Audra and Mario Quintero
Additional engineering by Jerry Roe, Boey Russell, Dave Walsh, and John Marsden

Tracked at Fort Knockout in Nashville TN, Paper Crane Studio in Somerville MA, and The Brown House in Homestead FL

Mixed by Eric McConnell and Buick Audra at Eric's House in Nashville TN

Mastered by Doug Sax and Sangwook "Sunny" Nam at The Mastering Lab in Ojai CA

Buick Audra - guitar, vocals, ukulele, toy piano, steel drum, percussion
Mario Quintero - guitar, bass, ukulele, percussion, and harmony vocals
Jerry Roe - drums and harmony vocals
Boey Russell - drums, percussion, and harmony vocals
Nate Edgar - bass
Levi Fuller - bass
Dave Roe - bass
Carl Jackson - guitar
Jabe Beyer - guitar
Dave Walsh - guitar
Catherine Huebsch - harmony vocals
Nancy Huebsch - harmony vocals
Eddie Zyne - hand drum, claps, and sleigh bells
Charlie Dechant - keys
John Marsden - organ and keys
Eliza Wheeler - percussion and harmony vocals
Seth Bodie - percussion and harmony vocals
Josh Fuson - percussion

Cover photo by Mario Quintero
Lettering by Ram Hannan
Graphic layout by Ric Simenson

℗ & © 2011, Trimming The Shield Records

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Buick Audra Nashville, Tennessee

Buick Audra is a Grammy-award-winning musician and writer living in Nashville, TN. She is the guitarist and primary songwriter and vocalist in the melodic heavy duo, Friendship Commanders. Her new album and corresponding memoir, Conversations with My Other Voice, were released on September 23rd, 2022. ... more

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