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Happy Ending

by Billy Webster

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    Like some of the artists who resonate within your singular voice, most especially David Bowie, I've always thought you to be a consummate creator of the pop song, which I mean as high praise. Writing within the strictures and according to the structures of a finite and recognizable form challenges the discipline of artistic muscle, like composing a sonnet; doing so in a medium so ostensibly accessible is especially challenging; to bring such personal, philosophical, and spiritual depth to the shape is a kind of mastery. I think I have told you that if I could have been anything in life I would have been, not a poet, but precisely what you are, a troubadour, able to sling a guitar over my back, go anywhere, and tell of all the world and life and love and poetry in a single song.

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1.
Boy In The Shell Of A Man 04:08
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2.
Young & Free 02:40
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3.
Non Stop Everything 05:07
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4.
How The Story Ends 03:30
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5.
Beaver Visitation 03:55
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6.
Playing Along 03:18
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7.
Let You Down Easy 04:02
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8.
Song For The Boys (Live) 03:11
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9.
Ten Years On 02:24
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10.
When The Story Is Over 04:20
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11.
The Lovely Jeanne 02:50
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12.
Two Drops Of Water 04:25
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13.
Stepping Off A Steeple 03:26
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14.
The New Twenty 03:48
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15.
Winter 03:14
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16.
Perfect Circle 04:10
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about

After the sweeping musical and lyrical gestures of his first concept album, Bold Enough To Say, Billy Webster set out to create an album of straight ahead, three and four minute rock songs. Originally titled "When The Story Is Over", the album intended to look at life from the perspective of a rocker father and husband approaching middle age. But as is often the case, artistic ambition took over and "Happy Ending" grew into a double album - one that still carries the original focus on growing older and family life, but throws into the mix songs that tell a broader story about growing up. Sitting alongside songs about marriage, fatherhood, and mortality are songs that look back at teen angst, youthful indiscretions, and the unconscious, accidental wisdom of young adulthood. How these early experiences affect the adults we become is as much a theme of "Happy Ending" as are the themes of parenting and "adulting."

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released December 8, 2016

Written, produced, and mixed by Billy Webster
Billy Webster - Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Bass, Keyboards, Mandolin
Carl Basler - Lead Guitar (1,3,8,14,15,19,20)
John DiGiantommaso - Lead Guitar (2,5)
Asher Weiss - Lead Guitar (13)

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you are creative. you are real. you smile. you are balanced. you do not think this race is worth it. you take vacation. you are spiritual. you are not a robot. you put people before deadlines and rules. you are not a conformist. you have a soul. you read the book you want to read. you know how much you do not know. you have been made to feel so small when you are so f***** HUGE. ... more

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