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The Women I'm Not Married To

from What Luck by Stephen Clair

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7" Single Comes out 4/21/18

(Spring 2018) A few years back Stephen Clair toured with Robert Earl Keen, and while on that tour hit it off with the REK band members so much that REK guitarist/producer/multi-instrumentalist Rich Brotherton invited Stephen back to his studio in Austin. They ended up recording the full length album, What Luck, Clair’s most country-tinged album which barely saw the light of day. Along for the ride on those sessions were Tom Van Schaik on drums, Glenn Fukunaga on bass, Marty Muse on pedal steel, and longtime Clair band member Bill Malchow on piano. “I always loved these tracks,” says Clair, “and couldn’t help thinking they ought to reach a wider audience.” To that end, Clair decided to reopen the tracks this winter and do some remixing with engineer Jonny Taylor at Beacon AV Lab, where Clair recorded the recent Pushbacks album. The new mix of “The Women I’m Not Married To” brings out the energy in those recorded performances in a way that fits with Clair’s current live shows. Let’s face it, it’s one of Clair’s cheekier gems, inspired partially by Dorothy Parker’s “The Men I’m Not Married To,” where he sings about all the kinds of women he’s not married to, making a list of “women in the world I have never kissed,” when, at its heart, it is also a humorous commentary on the narrator himself. “Now the track is much more energized, it’s essentially a barroom Texas shuffle where the piano now sounds like it’s trying to elbow it’s way to the front,” says Clair. Is there such a thing as a blues romp? Maybe this is it.

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The Women I’m Not Married To

The women I’m not married to You see them in the spring
Out in Washington Square Wearing someone else’s ring
They are put together  They are something to behold
They don’t appear to weather  They’re never growing old
I am grateful to All these women who
don’t finish my sentences Or tell me what to do

The women I’m not married to  Don’t hear me when I say
Honey I’m home  At the end of the day
The women I’m not married to Don’t benefit
From the way I fold the towels Or play the clarinet

Yesterday at the grocery In the checkout line
I saw a woman I’m not married to She seemed to be just fine
Without me as her man Without me in her life
Without any thought  Of being my wife
She’s just one more I can add to my list
Of women in the world I have never kissed

I am grateful to  All these women who
don’t finish my sentences  Or tell me what to do

The women I’m not married to Never ask me when
I am coming home Or wonder where I’ve been
The women I’m not married to Don’t give the 3rd degree
When I crawl in hours later Than I said I’d be
They don’t use my toothbrush Or wear my shorts
They don’t hog the bathroom Or want a divorce

The women I’m not married to Make very few demands
Have zero expectations I’m not even in their plans
The women I’m not married to Have gone their separate ways
I haven’t heard from a single one In just as many days
The women I’m not married to Are so easy to love
To adore them from afar Is really quite enough

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from What Luck, track released January 6, 2007
Stephen Clair, guitar/vocal ASCAP
Jonny Taylor Remix Engineer 2018
Rich Brotherton, Producer, guiytar
Glenn Fukunaga, bass,
Tom Van Shaik, drums
Bill Malchow, piano

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“Blending the kind of jaggedly cool guitar and piano that put Spoon on the map with a deadpan, almost spoken-word vocal delivery, the song quickly evolves into a righteous bar band anthem that feels as much linked to acts like the Hold Steady as it does to Wilco”
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