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Brothers in Arms

from A Murder of Songs by Grant Peeples

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about

I’ve been smitten with this song since I first heard it in 1985. I was at Log Cabin Studio working on another track. I asked Kris if I could do a quick demo. I thought I might have found a new approach to the song, and I just wanted to hear if anything was coming across when I played it in my simple little way. This involved, for the first time ever for me, playing an electric guitar. Sitting in a chair I played a Stratocaster and sang the song twice while Kris ran tape. It took ten minutes. It felt pretty good. I had NO inclination at the time that this would be a keeper track. But as we listened back later, we thought: “maybe this is it.” And it was.

lyrics

Brothers in Arms by Mark Knopfler

These mist covered mountains are home now for me
But my home is in the lowlands, and always will be
Someday you’ll return to your valleys and your farms
And you’ll no longer burn to be brothers in arms
Through these fields of destruction, baptism of fire
I’ve witnessed your suffering as the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad, with all the fear and alarm
You did not desert me, my brothers in arms
There’s so many different worlds
So many different suns
But all we have is this world
And still, we live in different ones

Now the sun’s gone to hell, and the moon is riding high
So, let me bid you farewell, my friends, every man, he has to die
But it’s written in the starlight and every line there in your palm
That we’re fools to make war on our brothers in arms

credits

from A Murder of Songs, released February 21, 2023
This involved, for the first time ever for me, playing an electric guitar. Clyde Ramsay would eventually add a B3 track, and Avis Berry and her daughter Razi layered some vocalizations across parts of the arrangement.
This was the first time they had ever worked together in studio.

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Grant Peeples Tallahassee, Florida

A self-described “tree-hugger that watches NASCAR, and Buddhist with a gun below the seat,” Grant Peeples is known for his axe-sharp socio-political tunes, raucous humor and heart-gigging ballads.
He is the recipient of the Focus Foundation Award for Creative Excellence, which cited the “humor, compassion and wisdom of his songs,” and their "unflinching social insight and cultural acuity." ... more

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