Cloud Caravan

“Nikki I’ve Been There Too” Is the last song recorded by one of the best line-ups for Abraham Cloud. Check out the amazing slow-hand honky-tonk guitar by Mike Packard, add to that the unbeatable rhythm feel from Robert Lee and Johnny G (or Lee-G as they have been called) and you have a really cool sound brewing. This song should be out soon with a bunch of other very rare recordings in the upcoming , “Freshly Broken Class” CD. The song “Nikki” reminds me a lot of “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison and “In the Summertime ” by Mungo Jerry. It’s just got that cool sway to it. Lyrics are pretty amazing too, seems like a comforting call from one alcoholic to another. “Nikki, I’ve been there too.” “When you’re hiding all alone in your place, trying to wipe the night off your face,” is one of the best lines ever. You would have to reach back into Paul Westerberg and the Replacements Catalog to find a better one. The other major influence seems to be “Joey” by Concrete Blonde. Same subject matter at least. Joey seems a lot more desperate. I actually thought I heard either Nikki or Joey in the Revolution TV promo.

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Abraham Cloud with Rory Stalwick in Los Angeles where everyone definately loves themselves. The venue , Ghengis Cohen was a hangout for a lot of celebrites like Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger and T-Bone Burnett , Accross the street from Cherokee Studios it also saw the likes of a lot of industry people like famous manage Herb Cohen. This song has never appeared on a CD but may be on the upcoming “Freshly Broken Glass” compilation.

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More Psychedelic Pop from the legendary Milkman Collection. This is some really stoney Cloud music. Guitar Madman Garwood takes the track in a “Tomorow Never Knows” direction , while Walters and G roll out the ecstatic groove. Abraham Cloud has never sounded more like Tom Petty’s brother than when he’s singing, “We’ll Slide On Down In Very Slow Motion. ” Maybe its Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Ride” that keeps coming to mind when Abe sings , ” I can tell by that look, that you’re going nowhere. ” Thanks to Andrew for the Video.

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This is an Abraham Cloud song that you’ll find on the “Cruelty of Gravity” CD. Once the chorus had totally stuck in my head, I started hearing the phrase “Flying Over You” everywhere. The Track sounds a bit like a lost Lennon song. Sort of like a demo from the ” Free As A Bird” period. I never realized the phrase comes up in Kimya Dawson’s “Eleventeen” “silver pink ponies flying over me flying over me they’re flying over you too.” Then later I noticed the line in the song Goodbye Horses, from the movie Silence of the Lambs. The lyric goes, “Goodbye Horses , I’m Flying Over You.” This video, of Abraham Cloud’s “Flying Over You” is by Donald H , from somewhere in Utah, Its an attempt to visualize a pretty odd pop song. The production on this song is completely amazing, it was all done by Abraham Cloud. Like a lot of his best stuff, no one else was allowed to touch it. Check out the “Strawberry Fields” snare part on the chorus, or the odd psychedelic backdrop for the bridge. There is actually more music packed in this song per digi- second than almost anywhere. “Sometimes it feels like everything and everyone is wrong,I’ve got to get away , try to find a place where I belong. “

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Abe, Johnny G on bass, Johnny Pop (RIP) on drums and John Garwood on lead guitar (the three Johnnys) at the release party for “Voyage To Afghanistan” if you listen closely you may hear Robert DOwney Jr. yelling in the background “It happened all by chance, Exactly as I planned.”

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