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    Dave Houston's first solo album. The Beginning is at the End (2016) is a mellowed treatment of themes dear to Houston's heart. It swerves like an old Holden across the desert, careering from the angst of the travelling songwriter to the troubles of our dear heaving continent. Aboard nine tracks of folked-up psyche rock we’re given the digestible banquet of a travelling bard’s global misgivings.

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This is about the male energy of Achilles from Homers 'Iliad' when he drags Hectors body around the walls of Troy, behind his chariot.

It's also about domestic violence.

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Don't go dragging this body round
flesh like stone falls

mornings round this old way
say it's three laps everyday

two bodies lie, one is still
one is dragged, behind a mans darkest will


neither laid to rest
they’d buried standing up if they could

she’s wearing sunglasses again
and I seen that look in your eye she says

she says, she says, she says

One is dead and one is dying
dragged across this field flying

Flesh is torn and flesh is ripped
it's cut along this funeral strip

A body tares as somebody's tears
It's one more bandage and one more year

I said I'd never be like him
Punching doors and kicking bins
I see myself myself in my kids eyes.
staring at me with these eyes a child


Don't go dragging this body round
flesh like stone falls
to the ground.

credits

from The Beginning is at the End, released November 18, 2016
Written By Dave Houston
Musical arrangements by Christian Pyle & Dave Houston

Tracked, Mixed and Produced by Christian Pyle
Recorded at the SS Prawn & Spanner Studios, Goonengerry, Australia.
Additional recording at the Aviary Studios, Collingwood, Australia.
Mastered by Michael Worthington at Soundworthy, Ballina, Australia 2016

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DAVE HOUSTON Melbourne, Australia

Renowned theatrical impresario Dave Houston has released two solo albums, and an EP and a bunch of band albums.

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Houston's music is mellowed, rocky & psyche-folk treatment of themes dear to his heart. It swerves like an old Holden across the desert, careering from the angst of the traveling songwriter to the troubles of our dear heaving continent. ... more

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