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Merry Run Around

by George Fetner (and the Strays)

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Touch of Grey 06:16
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2.
Scarlet Begonias 10:50
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3.
That's What Love Will Make You Do 06:05
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4.
They Love Each Other 07:11
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5.
Cats Under the Stars 06:04
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Viola Lee Blues 07:05
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7.
Sugaree 10:37
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"It’s both utterly unlike anything you would ever hear at a Dead concert and yet wonderfully, soothingly familiar to fans and newcomers alike" - Free Times

GFATS returns with a tribute to their roots in Merry Run Around. Tracked live by Matt Buck at 2020’s virtual Jerry Fest in Columbia, SC the album showcases bright new arrangements of Dead favorites augmented by GFATS’ signature horn sound. Merry Run Around was mixed and mastered by Zac Thomas (Kylesia, Florida Man, She Returns From War) at Columbia’s Jam Room Recording Studio.

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released August 6, 2021

Catherine Allgrim - bass trombone
Moses Andrews - organ and Wurlitzer
Davis Bowers - tenor sax
Craig Butterfield - bass
Anthony Charles - guitar, vocals
Matt Fenech - drums
George Fetner - guitar, vocals, synth
Will Melven - trumpet
Jeff Vaughn - percussion

Produced by Zac Thomas and George Fetner.

Tracked live by Matt Buck at The Warehouse on October 4, 2020.
Additional tracking by George Fetner and Moses Andrews.
Mixed and mastered by Zac Thomas at The Jam Room Music Studio. Columbia, SC.

Horn arrangements on tracks 1,2,5,6,7 by George Fetner.

Cover artwork designed and hand-painted by Thomas McElwee.
Photography by Crush Rush.
Art direction by George Fetner.

All songs legally licensed for sale in the United States.
All rights reserved.

www.gfats.com

Special thanks to The Five Points Association, Don and Jenn McCallister, Trae Judy, Matt Buck and Zach Zaba, Joe Jacobsen, Bentz Kirby, Thomas McElwee, and Laura Major.
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Billy, Bobby, Brent, Donna, Keith, Mickey, Pigpen, Phil, and our beloved Jerry.

“Instead of making something that lasts forever, I thought, I think I’d rather have fun. For me it was more important to be involved in something that was flowing and dynamic and not so solid that you couldn’t tear it down.” – Jerry Garcia

For Cory.

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George Fetner (and the Strays) Columbia, South Carolina

His guises have included stormy Britfolk songwriter (Some Things We’ll Change) and avant-garde composer (Beneath the Ice). But Fetner seems most natural fronting The Strays, a rangy and loose-limbed rock ‘n’ roll ensemble that’s built for a good time: Swirling Hammond swells, greasy Tom Petty-isms, bubbly pep — these are the calling cards of a songwriter built to bridge crowds. edited, Free Times ... more

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