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Quiet Storm Mash​-​Up (feat. Ben Raymond and LeAnne Piepiora)

from Bits and Pieces by Reuben Walton

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This was a recording session I did with Ben and LeAnne during the early Fall semester of 2010. We sing portions of "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes, off of their 2008 self-titled debut album. Ben also sings part of "Sun Was High (So Was I)" by Best Coast. Ben and LeAnne are also singing some other unidentifiable songs, likely Empty Phrases songs I haven't heard, Good Old War or Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers. Ben is playing my Taylor 214ce electric acoustic guitar, and we're all singing at various parts. I provided hand claps and finger snaps.

lyrics

Reuben Walton: ...owing the I was following the I was following the ma-I was following the
Ben Raymond and LeAnne Piepiora: Throw me a raft, make me stay, stay away from everything I...
RW: I was following the I was following the I I was following the I was--I love this part, it’s perfect, shut up, let’s start. I was following the I was--c’mon, Jesus fucking Christ.
LeAnne Piepiora: It’s
Ben Raymond: The first--first two.
LP: Yeah.
RW: (Laughs)
LP: (Laughs)
RW: I was following the I was following the
BR: Throw me around…
RW, BR and LP: I was following the I was following the I was following the I was following the coats with scarves of red tied ‘round their throats, to keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned around and there you go, and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in summertime. I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats, with scarves of red tied ‘round their throats, to keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned around and there you go, and Michael you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in summertime.
BR and LP: All my time is taken by the line…
BR: The Roger!
BR and LP: Everything is turning….
BR: Turning, turning…
RW: C’mon, let me…
LP: Stop. It’s gonna smell so bad, I don’t wanna taste it. What the fuck are you doing? Stop!
RW: Alright. No no, stay here, stay here! (laughs) A drink. (vocal run) Ah shit!
BR: No.
BR and LP: Come back home, first one I know.
BR: What was the clack I heard outside the home…You are just another balloon of over.
RW: I never thought you would take it this far, what do I know? Alright, let’s listen to this! (vocalizing)
BR: (vocalizing)
RW: (vocalizing)
BR: It’s not the right style. I know...
RW: Not the right style? Bitch please, I was doin’--I was doin’ trills all over the--
BR: (scoffs)
RW: All over the ying yang!
BR: Shit.
RW: Tell me not the right style.
BR: I gotta bring the piano in our ears, ‘cause you sprayed so much…
LP: It’s definitely guitar.
RW: Nigga I done seen m-mo’ hoes--(laughs) No, I don’t know.
LP: Yeah, it’s, like, really..smelly. (laughs)
RW: (laughs)
BR: (laughs) Oh my god. (laughs)
LP: I can, like, smell…I love that tune. Yo, open your window or something. (laughs)
BR: What’s that?
RW: Don’t worry about it, dude. Oh, I can turn on the fan. I can put the fan here. The fan’s right here.
LP: Alright.
RW: The fan’s right here.
LP: The part that--
RW: Who would?
LP: The through thing.
RW: Oh, put on the m-gangster hat and play guitar. (laughs) And do it while you’re playing guitar. Do it, do it, do it! It’s right behind you. It’s directly behind you, get it!
BR: It’s--it’s so (indistinct)
BR and LP: And through the years we know we all will.
RW: And sing--what?
BR: Best Coast. I… I…
LP: (laughs)
BR: for a walk… (laughs)
LP: (laughing)
RW: Wait, I wanna film you! I wanna film you doing this, shut up!
BR: Clouds go by…
RW: Hold on!
BR: …the sun was high...
RW: There’s still so much weed left. (laughs)
RW: Wait, start it up. (laughing) Start it up, I-I wanna--I wanna...There’s still so much weed left…
BR: Yo, what up?
RW: Open your pack. No, one--three, two, one. Alright, now have it facing. I am tossing out the back. Had been some retard, a good of some walk. (laughs)
BR: I went for a walk, watched the clouds go by…
RW: It smells so good.
BR: The sun was...
RW: It could be bread.
BR: high, and so was I, it sure was high, and so was I, I was.
RW: (vocalizing, cooing)
BR: I was…
RW: (snickers)
BR: *wails/screams*
RW: (laughs) Alright, now let’s watch that, let’s wa--no, no, shut the fuck up!
LP: (laughing) No, why? Watch it later.
RW: No.
LP: We have to create new moments, we can’t be reviewing the old ones every five minutes! (laughs)
RW: Alright. No, have it face--okay.
BR: (laughs) I…
RW: (laughing) It just suddenly started moving.
BR: went for a walk...
RW: It looks like the room is backwards, doesn’t it?
BR: …watched the clouds go by…
RW: You gotta…
BR: the sun was--(laughs). It just looks really random (laughs).
RW: (laughs) What? (laughs)
BR: With…with the hat.
RW: (laughs)
LP: I-I got, like, a video on my phone…
RW: Alright. No, have it face--okay.
BR: (laughs) I…
LP: (laughs) It starts off, like, perfectly, too.
RW: What?
LP: Hold on.
RW: Let me see. Show me! Show me! Bitch! No, I’m just kidding.
BR: It’s the damn sun, (vocalizing).
RW: You have so much better quality than mine.
LP: (laughing) You look so gangster, I think, or someone did!
(rhythmic finger snapping in background)
BR: I remember.
LP: It’s so funny.
BR and LP: You be…
LP: Yeah there’s things that’s why…
BR: I can’t listen to this. This moment just happened. (laughs)
LP: Yeah.
RW: I wanna feel your iPhone.
LP: (laughs) Why? It’s broken.
RW: I know, but you can still see it through it…
BR: You don’t know how it go.
LP: What?
BR: Now, you want…
RW: Oh, can I feel the crack? I just wanna--
LP: What ham, dude? (laughing) Is there a crack?
RW: (laughing)
LP: Reuben, there’s, like, five hundred cracks on the surface of this cellular device--don’t break it off!
RW: On the live fire can I--I’m just trying to see if I can feel it with my nails.
BR and LP: Wall wool...(vocalizing)
LP: Just hold it like that.
RW: Yeah, like that.
LP: Yeah. It’s, like, different.
RW: How hard is it--I know. What?
BR: I just had twenty mens, leave my…
RW: Who has the bowl? Who has the vape? Who has the vape?
LP: Argentina…
BR: Leave me here too long…
RW: Who has died?
BR: South America, oh…
LP: Argentina…
BR: I can’t leave myself and not at home...
LP: Argentina.
BR: I try to see you with a full moon…
LP: Argentina, Argentina…
BR and LP: (vocalizing)
BR: Ah, oh my god.
LP: (laughs)
RW: No--no--no, because I can do the vocal transformer, and we can sound like 7th graders.
LP: (laughs)
RW: No, it’s really funny, though. S--like, let’s just talk. Say something, LeAnne.
LP: Hi, Reuben.
RW: What’s up?
LP: Talkin’ to you.
RW: Oh, word? What’d you think of that performance?
LP: It was wonderful.
RW: Really?
LP: As always.
RW: What’d you like about it?
LP: The wonderful, awesome (indistinct)--
RW: Alright.
LP: Wonderful…
BR: In the nursery…it’s from the Björk CD…
RW: Uh, you mean the--
BR: And--And, uh--yeah.
RW: ...and Dirty Projectors?
BR: Where ohh--ocean meets…
RW: Yeah.
BR: the sea, in the place where we can be, you and me, we’re all alone.
RW: (laughs)
BR: (vocalizing) Oh, all in front, gallivitum on the shuman...
RW: (vaping)
BR: (vocalizing)
RW: (lighter flicks) (laughs) (lighter flicks) (vaping)
LP: (laughs) Are you okay…? (laughs)
RW: (laughs) It was just funny how it slipped out. (laughs)
LP: (laughs) Yeah. That’s what she s…(trails off)
RW: (laughs) That’s what she said.
BR: All the lyrics are weird on that CD, they’re all, like, about whales.
LP: (coughs)
RW: Yeah.
BR: In the nursery...(laughs)
RW: Why do you always say it’s all weird?
BR: I don’t know, ‘cause it’s just sounds--they’re weird lyrics to sing. “In the nursery where ocean”--
RW: You gotta, like, lose all your inhibitions, man.
BR: Eh, eh, eh--
RW: In fact, I--

credits

from Bits and Pieces, released August 19, 2012
Vocals by Reuben Walton, Ben Raymond and LeAnne Piepiora.
Lyrics written by Reuben Walton, Ben Raymond, LeAnne Piepiora, Robin Pecknold, Skyler Skjelset, Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo, Morgan Henderson, Joshua Tillman, Nicholas Peterson
Produced by Reuben Walton
Recorded by Reuben Walton
Edited by Reuben Walton
Mixed by Reuben Walton

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Reuben Walton Falmouth, Massachusetts

Reuben Walton is a singer/songwriter and music producer based in Falmouth, MA. He is a graduate of Musicians Institute in Hollywood's Independent Artist program and their Electronic Music Production program, as well as UMass Lowell’s Music Business undergraduate program.
In 2019 he put out a self-titled EP working with producer AVLI Music and is now regularly releasing new music.
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