Name: 2020 Mayday Blues
Duration: P00H02M48S
Description: This track also appears on the 2022 album "Blues Au Jus". The photo was taken (with no filters) as wildfires raged throughout northern California and the smoke-filled sky was actually this yellow-orange color for days. That is the sun you see peeking through. So, yes we were having wildfires during a drought, in the middle of a pandemic. We also had an earthquake around then- sheesh!

2020 Mayday Blues

by Jan Dylan Hunter

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This track also appears on the 2022 album "Blues Au Jus". The photo was taken (with no filters) as wildfires raged throughout northern California and the smoke-filled sky was actually this yellow-orange color for days. That is the sun you see peeking through. So, yes we were having wildfires during a drought, in the middle of a pandemic. We also had an earthquake around then- sheesh!

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Bluebird of happiness come land down on my shoulder.
I need some wisdom you can chirp into my ear.
The air around us feels like 40 degrees colder.
Cheer us up with some signs of spring.

We had our stuff together just like our neighbors
We had our lives a-just a-rolling down the track
That Covid came along and changed the signal crossings
Caused such a wreck it set the calenders back oh

If we can just make it through the month of May
I’m sending out this Mayday signal today

I see two butterflies they spiral up in lovemaking
I see the roses as they blossom in the spring
I see the tulips as they rise from mother earth
But I don’t see us waiting out two more months of this thing

If we can just make it through the month of May
I’m sending out this Mayday signal today

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released October 23, 2020

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Jan Dylan Hunter Santa Rosa, California

I play all the instruments on all my recordings unless otherwise noted, my main tools being guitar, keyboard and percussion.

I grew up in the Virgin Islands where I learned steel pan, percussion and clarinet.

Since then living in other states like California exposed me to more culture. Recent trips throughout Europe and the US have also really widened my musicabulary.
-Still taking it all in. ... more

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