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The Unreliable Narrators: CD
  • The Unreliable Narrators: CD

The Unreliable Narrators: CD

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The Unreliable Narrators was recorded over a period of 18 months in various apartments, motels, garages, and barns, with walls and windows covered with duvets, sheets, and foam. Bits and pieces recorded here, there, and wherever we could. Time was spent waiting for buses to pass by, for neighbours to stop shouting. There was a ton of cursing when we realized the perfect take we had just done, had picked up truck engine brakes, dogs barking, or children shrieking like dolphins. Sometimes you just have to leave things in (listen carefully).

The songs sometimes look inwards and sometimes outwards. And sometimes ponder how the outside changes and affects the inside; and viscera versa. They are thoughts and observations of the world around us; big world and little world. The songs try to do what art should do: to sometimes look at our existence from a different angle and sometimes stare it straight in the eye and call it by it’s true name.

The definition of an unreliable narrator (coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in his book The Rhetoric of Fiction), is one who is compromised, tells lies, and conceals the truth. One who exaggerates or is too naive or insane to be able to grasp the truth. Like Humbert Humbert in Lolita. Like Pi Patel in Life of Pi. Like Alex in Clockwork Orange. We are at times the unreliable narrators to our own lives, our own stories.

An unreliable narrator cannot be a fixed point, but can take you through many different points in a story. These songs try to stand at as many of these points as possible. You might not get the truth from and unreliable narrator but you’ll usually get a good story.

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Half a Tank of Gas and a Full Case of Beer: CD
  • Half a Tank of Gas and a Full Case of Beer: CD
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The Co-Conspirators release a tribute to Fred Eaglesmith with Half a Tank of Gas and a Full Case of Beer

Fred Eaglesmith tells tales, tall tales, short tales, true tales, and mythological tales. Tales of winners and losers and cheats and angels. Tales that make you smile, laugh, mourn, cry, and wonder.

Like all good story-telling, the truth becomes irrelevant and we happily climb aboard and enjoy the ride: never really sure where we are going, but just hoping that we are in good hands (knowing full well we are not but enjoying the journey anyway).

This EP started out as a bit of a joke. We do a lot of Fred songs in our live shows, often joking about how we should just become a Fred Eaglesmith cover band and wouldn't it be funny to put out a "tribute album".

We didn't really feel up to starting our new record, and were looking to kick-start the process with a small project and figured we'd bang out a quick and dirty EP. Didn't work out that way. It never does. So, 4 months of work and the result is Half a Tank of Gas & a Full Case of Beer.

There are so many great Eaglesmith songs this could have been a 20-50song recording but you have to draw the line somewhere. These seven stands out as some of our very favourites.

Thanks for taking the time to listen and support independent music. We hope you enjoy.

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Women's T-shirt - Coral Silk
  • Women's T-shirt - Coral Silk

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Coral Silk women's Heavy Cotton™ 5.3 oz. T-Shirt. 100% cotton with microphone logo. Red print. NB. The print is done using a rubber stamp process. There might be slight "imperfections" in the print.

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Women's T-shirt - Sports Grey
  • Women's T-shirt - Sports Grey

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Sports Grey women's Heavy Cotton™ 5.3 oz. T-Shirt. 100% cotton with microphone logo. Black print. NB. The print is done using a rubber stamp process. There might be slight "imperfections" in the print.

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Men's/Unisex T-Shirt - Heather Maroon
  • Men's/Unisex T-Shirt - Heather Maroon

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Heather Maroon Gilden Adult Unisex Softstyle® 4.5 oz. T-Shirt. 65/35 poly/cotton, with Microphone logo. Black print. NB. The print is done using a rubber stamp process. There might be slight "imperfections" in the print.

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