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Snipe Hunt - One Shove​/​The Hunt Revealed

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Hard Rockers by Walter Ehresman

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--from the Snipe Hunt album "We'll Be Right Back!" ('99)

Ehresman tells us: "The first Snipe Hunt album was an extended treatise on a time-honored metaphor for humiliating wild goose chases (eg. the American political experience). The album opened with a short audio vignette whereby the rube, getting off the bus,is immediately set upon by the tout who says "pssst.....hey buddy....Ever been on a snipe hunt?". Accordingly, the album closes with another short vignette, this time with the rube stranded alone out in the swamp at night, talking to himself, as the true nature of a "snipe hunt" becomes painfully apparent.

Here, for this collection, we include both the last true song on that Snipe Hunt album, 'One Shove', which then cross-fades into the final, sad lonely vignette of our snipehunter, who after all just came to Austin to get a job in the semi-conductor industry, now standing alone out in the midnight bog."


Download the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/well-be-right-back

See video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS41ApTHof8

lyrics

One Shove
(© 1998 Walter Ehresman)

One shove......is better.....
better than the fall;
Returning--does it feel so strange
to be so tall?
Where did you go?, who did you know?, what price....
what price the show?
We'd gone to ground to bring you down, to bring you
back to the fold.

You'd wandered....strayed so far from yourself;
The vampires....try to grind your weary soul,
leave a shell.
It's hard to do, it's true, but me and you
must rise above;
A higher ground, I've found, begins
with just one shove.

credits

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Hard Rockers, released May 1, 2017
Snipe Hunt: Walter Ehresman--lead vocals, clean guitar, keyboards, rainstick, bells, finger cymbals, shaker, Mexican string drum, talking drum, electronic drum pads; Vic Ramirez--background vocals, dirty electric guitar, rainstick, bells, carkeys, watchband, currency of the realm; Scott Brannock--bass; Pat Devaney--kit drums, cymbal swells, shaker, cabasa, carkeys, currency of the realm.

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Walter Ehresman San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

Called "the quintessential Austin DIY artist" by famed local disc jockey Charlie Martin , Walter Ehresman was an eccentric presence in the Austin music scene from the '80s until his 2015 move to Mexico. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist...and a restless musical spirit, always looking for something new, expressed with fearlessly honest, socially-conscious lyrics. ... more

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