Free Summer Bird EP

Livonia native Warren Defever's band His Name Is Alive have a free EP available for download on their website. Their stuff is usually worth checking out, and hell, the price is right!

The SUMMER BIRD EP is a special sneek preview of the forthcoming HIS NAME IS ALIVE LP, containing two album tracks and two non-Lp B-sides.

The A-side (track one) SUMMER BIRD is a 1970's singersongwriter flavored track written about lost love using Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge's complete destruction of Cambodia as a metaphor. A quick reference to Jackson Browne's Running on Empty serves as a reminder of the Communist's original goals of becoming solely reliant on their own natural resources, ending the undeclared war that the United States had started after branching out from Vietnam, and also as a reminder of how a beautiful well-meaning dream could quickly become a nightmare of unimaginable proportions.

What's not to love about that? Available for a limited time only.

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