Behold! A new musical message of Love and Beauty from Farmer Dave & the Wizards of the West (FDWOW). It’s “one from the heart this time” with “Flesh and Blood” & “Snake Eyes”. Recorded at County Line Studios with Kyle Mullarky (Babe Rainbow, Allah Las , King Gizzard), this new double A side single is a blast of fresh sea air, evoking the cliffside ocean mountains surrounding the studio where it was recorded. There is a new dimension of depth and feeling in these latest tunes… Farmer Dave and crew have brought a new “chance to dance again”… and melt your heart at the same time.
Written by Farmer Dave on a rainy night after a poignant phone call with a dear cousin on the occasion of their 40th birthday, “Flesh and Blood” captures the feeling of that fateful conversation with finely choreographed emotional potency. The opening line “A robot could stain wood, could it even write this song?” captures the spirit of these times as the realities of AI come more into the public conversation. Words “Whale sails through the azure seas / and the birds fly high now in the trees” underpin the song’s sentiments with reminders of Nature’s cycles and beauty, bringing heart and connection to the story, while musically, the band’s deep “all in” commitment...  more