Beatnik Turtle's Song of the Day

Ironically, "Face Down In The Snow" was written on an extremely snowy weekend. Wait, that would be unironically, wouldn't it? Oh well, the point is it was quite a blizzard, with traffic accidents, and power outages all over the area.

We had luckily made it up to the cabin in Wisconsin for a big recording weekend before it hit. But shortly after arriving and settling in, we suddenly realized that Steve Owens, our keyboard player and John Owens' brother, was nowhere to be found. He was there...then he wasn't. Weird.

John's reaction was: "Jeez, I hope he's not face down in the snow somewhere." We all looked at each other, and said, "That's a song!"

Rather than head out in the blizzard to find him, we headed back downstairs to write the song. It's a song that couldn't have been written with Steve. Luckily, we didn't have to play it at any memorial for him or anything: Steve made it safely back home through the blizzard in one piece.

This song was commissioned by Steve Levy for the Steve Levy Show. The title came about in the control room of the studio when Randy commented "It's like a bucket of cool..."

Just do as you're told! This song is the second track on our forthcoming album, ALL IN A DAY'S WORK. (The pre-release of the album is already available at iTunes, and the CD is due until October).

This is the song to sing outloud if you see a dinosaur walking down your block. Actually, the lyrics have confused the band for a number of years, but to decode it all you need to know is "dinosaur" is a particular person's nickname.

Sometimes life corrects your faults and deficiencies on their own. And, after awhile, you find yourself becoming less unique and more and more...average.

He once was on our side, but he's a cop now.

Today's song is a tribute to Herbert Hoover and his dam.

There's a restaurant located down the block from the studio in Evanston (Illinois) called Thai Sookdee. It makes the band's favorite Chicken Pad Thai. To the best of our knowledge, they don't sell buffalo wings, though.

What can we say? Hindsight is 20/20.

Let's face it, there needs to be a song about Traffic Cones. This is that song. Find out more about them at The Traffic Cone Preservation Society. Though our song says traffic cones don't make good pets, this site disagrees.