RETURN TO NORMAL - acoustic americana and new folk
Return to Normal by MLucas

RETURN TO NORMAL's Overflown

R2N's 2011 LP, Overflown is available for download or you can order the physical CD on Return to Normal's Bandcamp Store; the download is also available on Amzaon MP3 and iTunes (search for "Return to Normal"). Thanks for supporting real independent music.

Austin based Alan Schuyler recently reviewed Overflown in his blog, Off the Mainstream. Here's an exceprt:

The music stands on its own but the lyrics of each song tell a story. The lyrics (in my Forest Gump-like opinion) are each a poem and a story.

In “Joe Casey” we hear the story of an outsider artist who worked days in the Studebaker plant but then spent his evenings at home with his family painting canvases depicting, from memory, his younger years hunting and fishing in the Missouri Ozarks. “The Lincoln Highway Song” conjures the mirages, and perhaps the chimeras, of a boring drive on a hot midsummer day down the flat and tired pavement of America’s oldest transcontinental road. “Beehunter” travels back 60,000 years to the African bush as a man called Oolat discovers that by following a honey-guide bird he can unlock the door to nature’s candy store...read the entire review


appearances


March 9. At the Irish Pub in North Judson, Indiana, with guests Steve Campbell and Keith Buck.

March 10. Hosting the third annual Cabin Fever at Lena Park, this year with featured artist Monte Michel Bleu, supported by Kristel Anderson. Check out photos of this fun event here.

May 10. A short set at Paul Henry's Art Gallery in Hammond, Indiana - this true acoustic micless open mic is our favorite open music venue in the region, hosted by David J. Mueller.


May 26. A set at the Irish Pub in North Judson, Indiana.

July 6. We're playing at the Union Coffeehouse in Buchanan, Michigan.

links for lyrics and photos

Download the LYRICS FROM OVERFLOWN.

R2N PHOTOS on Picasweb.


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