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Hush Hush

by Kentucky Knife Fight

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    This is Kentucky Knife Fight's Bandcamp exclusive bonus edition download of "Hush Hush." In addition to the original 10 songs in high quality download form, we are releasing an alternate mix of "Bad Blood," our theatrical remix of "Love the Lonely" and a bonus version of Paper Flowers Three. Also included are In-studio photos of Kentucky Knife Fight by Nate Burrell (beforetheblink.com).
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1.
in the morning, came fame everyone will now know their names and the story they had sewn came undone they awoke in a field it took three tries to start the Bonneville he could see his breath wrapped around the wheel he pressed to his lips a mentholated cigarette his hands trembled as he pulled matches from his pocket she could sense he was weak she drew her hand upon his cheek and began a simple prayer she hoped to never repeat Judge not for we know not what we do.
2.
Bad Blood 02:48
Up for days at the Tic Toc Inn with some old habits and some new found friends. got a bad complexion, got a bloody nose, turn down service, and free HBO. got bad blood, bad blood, bad blood, bad blood. Mamma know I won't be home by Tuesday morning for the funeral I've-- got some business got some things to do. tell that holy roller sitting next to you he's preaching bad blood, bad blood, bad blood, bad blood. Mamma know I won't be home by Tuesday morning for the funeral I've-- got some business got some things to do. tell that holy roller sitting next to you he can let this town drown in its own wretchedness.
3.
why you wanna go and wreck my life? why you wanna go and bleed me dry? why do your words seem so insincere? why do your intentions seem so unclear? they tried to warn me but I couldn't hear. the water was rising the flood was near. we struck a match and sang the song of our hollow, misshapen love. of our hollow, misshapen love. how long must we hold the reins? how many shoulders must we place the blame? when you treat the ones you love this way i wonder how you treat those you hate. they tried to warn me but I couldn't hear. the water was rising the flood was near. we struck a match and sang the song of our hollow, misshapen love. of our hollow, misshapen love. why you wanna go and wreck my life? why you wanna go and bleed me dry? why do your words seem so insincere? why do your intentions seem so unclear? they tried to warn me but I couldn't hear. the water was rising the flood was near. we struck a match and sang the song.
4.
all the debts that they owed would be paid back ten fold through the blood and the flesh of an unarmed man. through the blood and the flesh of an unarmed man. hid-- within the case of a violin a crudely wrapped diamond. a crudely wrapped diamond. "deliver us from evil" she said. "deliver us from evil again." "deliver us from evil" she said. through the dark and the cold every lie that he ever told sat up in his review mirror then disappeared. sat up in his review mirror then disappeared. with his car in the drive he flashed his brights for her to come outside. a paper flower behind her ear as she faced the mirror. a paper flower behind her ear as she faced the mirror. "deliver us from evil" she said. "deliver us from evil again." "deliver us from evil" she said.
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this is the sweetest this is the sweetest part. your fragile features can only get you so far. your make and model has it’s share of defects. your lovely language has it’s share of suspects. I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want, you see– I love the lonely I love the lonely cause they love me no need for speaking we both know what to expect. hang your reservations up with your coat, keys, and cigarettes. I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want, you see– I love the lonely I love the lonely cause they love me you shake and shiver. from my lips a lie is born to be here always to caress your naked form. the morning whimpers and crawls back in it’s tired skin till night comes knocking at your door once again. I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want, you see– I love the lonely I love the lonely cause they love me. I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want ya
7.
Hush Hush 03:24
though I can't recall how your skin felt in my palm though I have no knowledge of the rights and all the wrongs that we perpetrated in secret with great speed whilst intoxicated but those are formalities. oh the boardwalk's breaking and the walls are caving in on everything and i can't seem to act right. if I could express that which is on my chest if I could sift the wheat from the all the rest there would be no need to carry on as i do night after night fangs drawn and I'm in dress shoes. oh the boardwalk's breaking and the walls are caving in on everything and I can't seem to act right. someone's knocking loudly some young thing in distress who's sniffed out our folly who's in a state of undress. she's here to manage risk talk equity and leverage in a short term period like some day trading hedonist. oh the boardwalk's breaking and the walls are caving in on everything and I can't seem to act right.
8.
Gunsmoke 04:13
father watched Gunsmoke in the family room while mother scrapped the plates. with a wish in her mind sister blew out the candles on her birthday cake. the last three words the last three things they'd ever hear her say were "it's not enough, it's not enough" and then she ran away. I wanna leave in the morning while my heart's still pumping and I still have some something to prove. I wanna leave in the morning while my heart's still pumping and I still have something to prove to you, to you, you -- brother blacked his lips and blacked his eyes and then he hit the stage draped in pearls six inch heels and his girlfriend's bustier. the last three words the last three things they'd ever hear him say were "it's not enough, it's not enough" and then he ran away. I wanna leave in the morning while my heart's still pumping and I still have some something to prove. I wanna leave in the morning while my heart's still pumping and I still have something to prove to you, to you, you -- sister tossed a match in the Bonneville just to be safe there's no fingerprints, strands of hair, or pesky DNA. the last three words the last three things they'd ever hear her say were "it's not enough, it's not enough" and then she ran away. I wanna leave in the morning while my heart's still pumping and I still have some something to prove. I wanna leave in the morning while my heart's still pumping and I still have something to prove to you, to you, you --
9.
Father 04:58
I -- knew your father well he was a life long a lifetime criminal. we -- we met way back when when we were just boys when we were just noise to them. from -- our rented room we'd plot and we'd plan. we came to understand real soon, the need -- to cleanse this town of every soiled sheet of every spoiled street around. hold your hands up where i can see them. hold your hands up toward the ceiling. (repeat) because the mistakes of the past are the ones that last. there -- were weeks of heavy rain as the river rose it spilled out on the empty plains. that's when we intervened split the levee wide brought the flood to the city. we watched -- with every inch of eye as the land began to mirror the face of a perfect sky. hold your hands up where i can see them. hold your hands up toward the ceiling. (repeat) because the mistakes of the past are the ones that last. some -- one's knocking loudly guns drawn no introductions necessary. they -- stormed our room and made the demands to see our hands or they'd shoot. walking for the door gonna see if you really mean it. when you say you're not afraid to spread my brains across the ceiling. officer there's no stopping what's lurking in the weeds this season. there's so much evil unborn in this world for no rhyme or reason.
10.
everyone everything looked suspicious and seemed to lean. and the words that he spoke were not his own. there was no whistle in the wind. two shots broke the silence and the only witness was a wide open moon. with a whisper and a wink he dropped the pistol and he watched it sink in a well that he built as a child. across town in a room there was a girl in cheap perfume she laid her dress on the bed and prayed out loud. she said, "deliver us from evil tell those people with their steeples to judge not for we know not what we do." she said, "deliver us from evil tell those people with their steeples to judge not for we know not what we do."
11.
Up for days at the Tic Toc Inn with some old habits and some new found friends. got a bad complexion, got a bloody nose, turn down service, and free HBO. got bad blood, bad blood, bad blood, bad blood. Mamma know I won't be home by Tuesday morning for the funeral I've-- got some business got some things to do. tell that holy roller sitting next to you he's preaching bad blood, bad blood, bad blood, bad blood. Mamma know I won't be home by Tuesday morning for the funeral I've-- got some business got some things to do. tell that holy roller sitting next to you he can let this town drown in its own wretchedness.
12.
this is the sweetest this is the sweetest part. your fragile features can only get you so far. your make and model has it’s share of defects. your lovely language has it’s share of suspects. I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want, you see– I love the lonely I love the lonely cause they love me no need for speaking we both know what to expect. hang your reservations up with your coat, keys, and cigarettes. I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want, you see– I love the lonely I love the lonely cause they love me you shake and shiver. from my lips a lie is born to be here always to caress your naked form. the morning whimpers and crawls back in it’s tired skin till night comes knocking at your door once again. I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want, you see– I love the lonely I love the lonely cause they love me. I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want ya I got you right where I want ya
13.
in the morning, came fame everyone will now know their names and the story they had sewn came undone they awoke in a field it took three tries to start the Bonneville he could see his breath wrapped around the wheel he pressed to his lips a mentholated cigarette his hands trembled as he pulled matches from his pocket she could sense he was weak she drew her hand upon his cheek and began a simple prayer she hoped to never repeat Judge not for we know not what we do.

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Reviews of Kentucky Knife Fight's newest release, "Hush Hush"

"Hush Hush: Wherein the St. Louis-via-Edwardsville band marries its bluesy barroom blitzes with a cinematic scope. For its third full-length, the quintet remains clouded in cigarette smoke and dark-tinted glasses, but there's a touch of the auteur with how the album is assembled. There is plenty of Kentucky Knife Fight's trademark boogie and swagger alongside its more art-directed interludes...Hush Hush is the album that the band needed to make; it doesn't abandon Knife Fight's core sound but widens the lens with a greater focus on storytelling and mood setting."
- Christian Schaeffer for The Riverfront Times

"Every lyric, every lick on the guitar, and every single tattoo scattered throughout Kentucky Knife Fight screams about cutting the crap and getting down and dirty. Every song inspires to be wild and free (and sometimes a little bit naughty), and at the end of "Love the Lonely," I kind of want to be a vindictive bitch that steals souls and pours evil love potions everywhere. St. Louis NOW has the distinct pleasure of being the birthplace of Kentucky Knife Fight, who's musical genre is a melting pot of blues, rock, and sex."
- Kaylee Goins for KMNR

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View the official music video for "Love the Lonely" here:

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released March 2, 2013

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KENTUCKY KNIFE FIGHT is:
JASON HOLLER / vocals • CURT BREWER / guitar, banjo, vocals JAMES BAKER / drums • NATHAN JONES / guitar, vocals
NATHAN JATCKO / keys • JASON KOENIG / bass, vocals

Additional personnel:
Andy Ament / sax • Zack Dismukes / trumpet • David Beeman / vocals Morgan Nusbaum / vocals • Seth Porter / vocals
Emma Tiemann / violin • Liz Meyers / cello
David Vandervelde / mellotron

Horn arrangement by Brewer, String arrangements by Brewer & Jatcko

Music by Kentucky Knife Fight, Words by Holler
© 2013 all rights reserved

Photography by Nate Burrell (beforetheblink.com)
Art Design by Nathan Jones
Bandcamp Profile Photo by Joshua Black Wilkins

booking: kentuckyknifefight@yahoo.com
lyrics at www.kentuckyknifefight.net

www.facebook.com/kentuckyknifefight

Sincere Thanks to David Beeman, Kit Hamon, David Vandervelde, DAD, Nate Burrell, Daren Gratton at Throwing Things Records, Joshua Black Wilkins, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Steve Pohlman, Stephen Baier, Seth Porter, Morgan Nusbaum, and to our fans, family, and friends in St. Louis and elsewhere that help keep us alive and moving forward

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Kentucky Knife Fight St Louis, Missouri

Kentucky Knife Fight's music evokes images of smoky bars where wood paneling lines the walls, worlds covered in shadow and stained with liquor. The St. Louis five piece punk-blues wrecking crew create songs about desperate people doing desperate things in places they shouldn’t be. If there is a jukebox at the end of the universe you will find Kentucky Knife Fight between The Stooges and Tom Waits. ... more

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