Rip It Away

The “lightning in the badlands” was a real thing.

When I was 18 I took The Green Tortoise across the US from Boston to San Francisco.  About a week into our 14 day journey I remember waking up in the back of the bus, parked by an isolated gas station in the late afternoon heat. A dark haired hippie girl with cool glasses offered me red wine out of a bottle. Later that night we sat on a prairie at the edge of a canyon. There was a storm beneath us and when the lighting struck, it would light up the canyon and the prairie all around it, really putting on a show. It was the first great thing I saw after leaving home.

“Rip It Away” is the song where The Previous emerged from the blues fog  of our birth at The 8121 and started sounding like The Previous. Initially with Walt and Clay and Tuesday and Steve Mugalian and  David Tobocman at The Highland Grounds, and then everything else began to coalesce around this driving invitation to our shows

Not taking anything away from the recording on Porch Music but “Rip It Away” was always greatest as a live number.

Written by Andras Jones

Engineered & Produced by Earle Mankey

Andras Jones – Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Clay Goldstein – Harmonica
R. Walt Vincent – Bass
John Nason – Guitar
Colin Mahoney – Drums
& Deb Pasternak – Vocals