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Written almost more quickly than it takes to play, this is the opening song from the last CBQ album, “Splinterheart” and seems to be the most popular song on it. A simple little love song originally in the first person but later switched to the third. I think I may have used a rhyming dictionary for this. I like the doo-wop backing vocals and the stop at the end of the first chorus...
Favourite Line : “So now his heart begins to splinter, he doesn’t think she’ll ever know”

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from Aftersilence​:​Songs, released May 7, 2011
Splinterheart
(David Reilly)
Original Source : Splinterheart
David Reilly - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Samples
Recording Date : April – June 2010

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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