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As I’ve mentioned to others on a few occasions, something special happens with my songwriting when Beth and I visit her parents and stay in her grandparents’ old house in Choteau, Montana—a rural town of 1600 people where she grew up, an hour north of Great Falls. This is one of those songs, featuring a folky arpeggiated guitar part in the verses that is reminiscent of how we do our cover of Chris Bell’s “You and Your Sister.” But it also incorporates a 70s-rock sound, especially on this recording (featuring Nate on a 12-string electric guitar and me on a Fender Rhodes keyboard)—so much so that we started calling it “the Boston song” (after “More Than a Feeling”) in rehearsals. I love the vulnerability in Beth’s voice in this recording and, during the instrumental section, the solos by Nate and Teresa, which add country music touches in just the right amount. (Originally, I’d written a string quartet break in a George Martin/Beatlesque fashion, and although it was nice enough, it felt too fussy.) The reference to Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” in the chorus (“If I could leave and go home / Where could I be an unknown?”) might be too obvious, but I think it works in the song, which turns out to be the oldest one on this album.

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Saturday driving on the road to the end
Everyone striving to get back on the mend
The pavement is frozen, the houses alone
If I could leave and go home

If I could leave and go home
Where could I be an unknown?
’Cause it’s cold outside

Emptiness weighing and it’s closing me in
Something I’m saying I forget to begin
No one is waiting to talk on the phone
If I could leave and go home

If I could leave and go home
Where could I be an unknown?
’Cause it’s cold outside
And it’s a wasted ride

If I could travel, if I could go
If I unravel, or if I could know
If I could grieve all the futures I’ve blown
If I could leave and go home

If I could leave and go home
Where could I be an unknown?
’Cause it’s cold outside

If I could leave and go home
Where could I be an unknown?
Then I would be all right

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from The Honor and Glory of The Gated Community, released February 3, 2023
Beth Hartman: lead vocals
Sumanth Gopinath: backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric piano (Fender Rhodes)
Rosie Harris: backing vocals
Teresa Gowan: fiddle
Nathan Knutson: acoustic guitar, 12-string electric guitar, electric guitar
Cody Johnson: bass guitar
Paul Hatlelid: drums

written January 2018, recorded fall 2019, fall 2021–spring 2022

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The Gated Community is a country/bluegrass/Americana band with rock influences based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in Minnesota and has been in existence since early 2006.

Bandmembers: Sumanth Gopinath
Rosie Harris
Beth Hartman
Paul Hatlelid
Cody Johnson
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