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Echo Down the Years by Walter Ehresman

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Album Title: Well......Let's Look at Your Track Record, Shall We?
Snipe Bog Records
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This song comes from my 13th solo album, 2010's "Well....Let's Look at Your Track Record, Shall We?". The album contains various genres and hybrids in-between, and "Echo Down the Years" is my jazzy ballad of the bunch. I had written a song called "That Summer Sun" in 2009 for the Delphi Rising album we were recording, and I sent the lyrics to my friend Greg in Dallas. The song is about love in the ruins after the global climate-change meltdown. He remarked that he liked it, and added smart-assedly that I should make a career of writing post-apocalyptic love songs. Not to be out-smart-assed, I replied that I bloody well would, and that led to me writing "Echo Down the Years." The song is written from the perspective of the future remnants of mankind sifting through records of the time when Earths undoing was so gleefully pursued by 21st century humanity. The few that are left are looking for some kind of inspiration from the past, to give them the spark and hope to continue, and in this search they find evidence of a great love between one man and woman. I played the jazzy guitar part on an old blonde Gibson ES-175 (through a bass amp), and the bass part on a Renaissance 4-string fretless.

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Walter Ehresman

guitar

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