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Troubles

from Still On My Mind by Abby Litman

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“Troubles” captures an inner monologue brought on by the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic affected nearly everyone and everything, and disrupted us from the normalcy of our everyday lives. The song's quiet, layered vocals, its meditative guitars and warm harmonies are meant to calm the listener in their own moments of worried contemplation. With its jagged edges and seams left long and unfinished, the accompanying quilt evokes the literal social and political fraying many experienced during the pandemic, while the quilt's blue and black palette calls back the isolation of quarantine. 

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I wish I knew if time moves back and forth
Like a baby screaming one day growing too old
Drawing a last breath skipping your last stone
Ripples in the water breaking at the shore

Sleeping dreaming same sheets since I left
Jersey covers, doll house, treasure chest
Have I given up, back to my old ways and childhood days
California never felt so far away

Troubles on my mind nothing makes much sense
How do I decide what happens next?
What happens next?

Sometimes I wake up feel like someone else
Snow falls on the tree tops window icicles melt
I am happy here, I can disappear
What’s another year who’s counting

Troubles on my mind nothing makes much sense
Thought I had it right was a means to an end
I count the years that have gone by on my two hands
Troubles on my mind
Troubles on my mind
Troubles on my mind
What happens next?
What happens next?

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from Still On My Mind, released April 7, 2023
Produced by: Tyler Chester
Engineered by: Tyler Chester
Mixed by: Tyler Chester
Mastered by: The Bakery Mastering
Recorded at: Paperchaser Noho, Los Angeles, CA

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Abby Litman
Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass and Auxiliary Instruments: Tyler Chester

Single Artwork: Nicole Jaffe

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Abby Litman Los Angeles, California

Singer/songwriter Abby Litman is an up-and-coming folk musician whose songs marry the lyrical traditions of American folk music with inventive acoustic arrangements and modern concepts. She’s also the founder of LA concert series Good Folk. Her influences range from Nick Drake to Edna St. Vincent Millay to Joni Mitchell. In 2021, Abby worked with producer Tyler Chester to record EP “On My Mind.” ... more

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