ELECTRIC EARL
Cold Facts (1983)

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1.	John Wayne   (2:23)				MP3		lyrics	chords
2.	Way It Is   (2:17)				MP3		lyrics	chords
3.	Master of Time and Space   (3:49)				MP3		lyrics	chords
4.	Husbands   (2:54)				MP3		lyrics	chords
5.	Reflecting Mask   (2:24)				MP3		lyrics	chords
6.	Sanity   (4:41)				MP3		lyrics	chords
7.	Angeline   (2:44)				MP3		lyrics	chords
8.	Mansworld   (2:13)				MP3		lyrics	chords
9.	You Need A Villain (solo version)   (3:34)				MP3		lyrics	chords
	BONUS TRACKS:
10.	John Wayne [live, 4/27/87]   (2:19)				MP3		lyrics	chords
11.	Comin' Back Home   (4:38)				MP3		lyrics	chords
12.	Way It Is   [solo demo]   (0:00)				MP3		lyrics	chords
13.	Millions   (3:40)				MP3		lyrics	chords
14.	Dusk [instrumental]   (2:48)				MP3
15.	Hurry Up, Liza [live, 5/28/1983]   (3:00) (based on "Lil' Liza Jane")				MP3		lyrics	chords

Total time:   46:44

CREDITS

#	title	musicians / singers
1.	John Wayne	EARL: vocal, guitar, bass, drum machine This song was my reaction to John Wayne's book America: Why I Love Her.
2.	Way It Is	EARL: vocal, guitar, bass, drum machine In Betty Friedan's famous famous book The Feminine Mystique, she talked about "functionalism," the belief that - as I say in chorus of my song - the way it is is how it's meant to be. This philosophy has long been used by social conservatives to keep women in their place, and now it's a common argument against gay marriage.
3.	Master of Time and Space	EARL: vocal, guitar, bass, drum machine
4.	Husbands	EARL: vocal, guitar, bass, drum machine
5.	Reflecting Mask	EARL: vocal, guitar, bass, drum machine
6.	Sanity	EARL: vocal, guitar, bass, drum machine
7.	Angeline	EARL: vocal, guitar, bass, drum machine "Angeline" had nothing to do with L.A. billboard queen Angelyne, who I'd never heard of until I moved to California seven years later. The original inspiration was Groucho Marx's girlfriend Erin Fleming, who I felt was being unfairly deprived of the money that Groucho left her in his will.
8.	Mansworld	EARL: vocal, guitar, keyboard bass, drum machine
9.	You Need A Villain	EARL: vocal, guitar There was a bar in downtown Baton Rouge called The Industry, where they used to have punk and New Wave bands. I even played there myself a few times. And outside on the sidewalk, there would be these religious nuts waving Bibles at the clientel and warning of eternal damnation. I believe the ringleader was Rev. David Diamond, trying to make a name for himself. (Based on the few results that a Web search turns up, he never succeeded.) Leaders using "enemies" - real or imagined - to advance their own agendas is something that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn talked about in his books. A more fully produced recording of this song can be found on Holiday On Mars (1987).
10.	John Wayne [live]	Electric Earl & the Electrons at The Bayou in Baton Rouge, featuring:     EARL: vocal, guitar     "JOHNNY" WELLS: lead guitar     HERSCHEL ALLOR: bass     JAMES FOGLE: drums Band member Meredith Chinn did not play on this song. This is a mono recording from the P.A. mix by Pete Bryan.
11.	Comin' Back Home	EARL: vocal, guitar
12.	Way It Is [solo demo]	EARL: vocal, guitar
13.	Millions	EARL: vocal, guitar
14.	Dusk	EARL: guitar
15.	Hurry Up, Liza	EARL: vocal, guitar This performance was recorded at FestForAll in downtown Baton Rouge.
Engineered and mixed by Electric Earl. Recording dates: November 10-11, 1983 (track #1-9), 4/27/1987 (track #10), 4/17/1983 (track #11-14), 5/28/1983 (track #15) The original cassette version of this album had track #1-5 on side one, and #6-9 on side two. In 1983 I started using the stage name Electric Earl for my live shows. However, I continued to use my full legal on recordings for several more years. The working title for this album was Hold the Phone, after the catch-phrase made famous by "Amos 'n' Andy." But I dropped that idea because I couldn't find any interesting graphics for that theme. At the time I was reading a lot about Eskimos, and decided to use that visual concept instead, with the double-meaning Cold Facts as the title. All words and music by Earl P. Reinhalter, except "Hurry Up, Liza" is based on "Lil' Liza Jane."