ARTISTS / Dare Dukes
Dare Dukes
Ghosts of Christmas
Catalog Numbers: FH-003 / SR 2307
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Genre: Western Folk / Alt Country
Type: Single
Purchase: Bandcamp
Links: Discogs Info | Spotify
pressing information
Digital: Worldwide
Compact Disc: Furious Hooves & Starland Records
1st Press (2011): 50
Limited Edition Handmade CD-R comes in a thick Kraft cardstock sleeve with InkJet-printed design mixed with meticulously hand-crafted collage elements (front/back), thin Kraft CD inner-sleeve with stamp, and full-color CD label. Professionally duplicated. Hand-crafted, hand-stamped, hand-numbered.
Tracklisting
1. Ghosts of Christmas – 6:45
2. Artifacts – 3:07
Total Run Time: 09:52
Credits
Written by Dare Dukes. (Dare Dukes BMI 2011).
Co-produced by Dare Dukes and Suny Lyons.
Recorded and mixed by Suny Lyons at Popheart Productions, Athens, GA.
Mastered by Alex McCollough at Yes Master, Nashville, TN.
"Ghosts of Christmas"
Dare Dukes: Banjo, lead vocals.
JoJo Glidewell: Keys.
Liz Hartin: French horn.
Suny Lyons: Bass, Moog, percussion, vocals.
Laura Wrenn: Vocals.
"Artifacts"
Dare Dukes: Guitar, lead vocals.
Ruby Kendrick: Vocals.
Suny Lyons: Accordion, bass, bells, percussion.
Laura Wrenn: Vocals.
Design and visual production by Ryan McCardle & TJ Hatcher.
Release Biography
Dare Dukes’ music is a striking combination of incisive intelligence and sweet, doleful hooks. Looking past the shiny surfaces of American life, the Savannah, GA-based singer-songwriter chronicles the everyday world, mining the margins for the eccentric characters and bizarre events that are at the heart of his music.
“America is a crazy, scary, and fascinating landscape,” Dare says. “The reality is a lot more interesting to me than what the nightly news depicts. The way I see it, it’s a place filled with eccentric characters, all on their own strange mission – some nuts, some saner than the rest of us. These missions, these people, they are what my music is about.”
About ‘Ghosts of Christmas,’ Dare’s first venture into Christmas songs, this is what he has to say, ”It’s got two songs, a side A and a side B. I think it’s very nice, I do. The title track has just the right blend of ‘fa la las’ and celophane to warm the hearts of both sentimentalists and grinches?” Furious Hooves co-released the handmade limited edition CD-Single with Dare’s very own Starland Records on November 29th 2011.
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