2025 Competition Entry:
Lime Time with Clementine by Goosewind
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Genre
Rock
Artist
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Co-writer(s)
no
Performer(s)
Rick Bunce (me) song lyrics, acoustic and electric guitar
Gerry Hernandez- Drums and backing vocals
Melody Bunce- backing vocals
Rich Jones- electric slide guitar
Maddelleine Grey- backing vocals
Jen Preciado- producer and engineer
Dennis Callaci- Video producer and owner of Shrimper Records who put song out on label
Gerry Hernandez- Drums and backing vocals
Melody Bunce- backing vocals
Rich Jones- electric slide guitar
Maddelleine Grey- backing vocals
Jen Preciado- producer and engineer
Dennis Callaci- Video producer and owner of Shrimper Records who put song out on label
Description
If I can get the funding, I would like to make a proper live action video for this song. The video story involves a kind of old west small town jail where our hero Clementine in behind bars. Her partner befriends her unwary guards with tequila and limes (the guards happily drink the tequila and throw the lime rinds around carelessly), and Clementine’s partner somehow places a barely concealed fuse attached to sticks of dynamite almost within reach of Clementine; but she has to figure out how to produce a spark to light the fuse. Lime rinds when squeezed produce a flammable citrus oil, so the visual device would be the lime oil bridging the gap between the flame source and the fuse, fuse burns down, giving Clementine time to pull her cot over her for protection, the blast takes out a wall of the small jailhouse and the drunk and unaware guards. Clementine escapes through the blasted wall, steals one of the guards horses, and meets her partner who is also on a horse, and the two of them ride off into the sunset together.
Bio
Goosewind – The Miracle of Tape
Release date: April 19th
Record label: Shrimper
Genre: Lo-fi indie rock, experimental rock
Formats: CD, digital
Pull Track: The Miracle of Tape
Goosewind is a long-running lo-fi indie rock project led by Rick Bunce, a Shrimper Records O.G. Like Shrimper’s most notable bands (The Mountain Goats, Refrigerator, Nothing Painted Blue), Bunce came up in southern California’s Inland Empire region, and the first few Goosewind cassettes in the early 90s were some of Shrimper’s first releases, even if they don’t exactly have the cult following today that some of the other acts on that label’s roster do (even the Internet’s preeminent Shrimper fansite has little to say on them). Although they moved on from Shrimper after a few releases, Goosewind never stopped putting out music, and the two reunited for 2022’s Grateful 4 the Times We Share cassette. Goosewind are back just two years later, and Bunce and his collaborators (this time, Melody Kriesel, Maddelleine Grae, Ruben Marquez, Gerry Hernandez, Rich Jones, and Jen Preciado) have cooked up a forty-five minute CD called The Miracle of Tape. My formal introduction to Goosewind may have come thirty years later, but I almost immediately understood them as true adherents to an important, inventive, and less-remembered strain of indie rock right out of the 1990s.
Other than the obvious Shrimper bands, Goosewind’s underground is the same underground as Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, the Strapping Fieldhands, Souled American, Trumans Water, Skin Graft Records…music that’s compelling and “difficult”–not merely due to recording style, but due to something positively ornery at its core. Half a dozen songs into The Miracle of Tape, every track genuinely sounds like it was written and performed by a different band. To a certain kind of person, it might feel like Goosewind are playing a trick on you–but in reality, they’re not only serious, but just about as honest as they come, too. There’s no easily-digestible, polished package to be found here: just music, beautiful, weird, and impossible to ignore. The six-minute title track opens the record with Shrimper’s version of goth and punk rock, a mid-tempo power chord chugger that’s sure to satisfy neither goth nor punk purists. On the other hand, it’s hard to imagine someone who wouldn’t be charmed by the soaring, glossy, AutoTuned synthpop of “Broken Hearts Club” one song later.
“Rest Stop Tree” and “Fever Pitch” land somewhere between the first two songs on the record–decidedly not for everyone, but if you’re open to either’s terrain (slide guitar-shaded folk music for the former, fuzzed-out glam-punk for the latter), they’re heavenly. These are the “hits” on The Miracle of Tape, but hardly the full story–one that also includes lengthy instrumentals (“It’s Always 1145”, “Rich Metal”), annoying “pirate radio” skits from Kriesel and Bunce (“Murphy’s Law”, “Transylvania Airlines”), and stuff that–there’s no way around it–is just plain weird (“Tourette’s of the Feet”, “Caddy Smells Like Trees”). Even the hits, though, are transmissions from a different world–as tempting as it would be to describe “Rest Stop Tree” as “Neutral Milk Hotel-esque”, it’s probably closer to Charlie McAlister, and while “Fever Pitch” could’ve been a 70s punk classic, it’s actually a cover of a song by Halo, a Los Angeles 90s band also associated with Shrimper. I’ve written about bands that sound like Lungfish before, but this might be the closest music has gotten to the miraculous feeling of going to the aquarium and seeing an actual lungfish. It’s out on CD, but The Miracle of Tape is the right name for it. (Midheaven link)
Release date: April 19th
Record label: Shrimper
Genre: Lo-fi indie rock, experimental rock
Formats: CD, digital
Pull Track: The Miracle of Tape
Goosewind is a long-running lo-fi indie rock project led by Rick Bunce, a Shrimper Records O.G. Like Shrimper’s most notable bands (The Mountain Goats, Refrigerator, Nothing Painted Blue), Bunce came up in southern California’s Inland Empire region, and the first few Goosewind cassettes in the early 90s were some of Shrimper’s first releases, even if they don’t exactly have the cult following today that some of the other acts on that label’s roster do (even the Internet’s preeminent Shrimper fansite has little to say on them). Although they moved on from Shrimper after a few releases, Goosewind never stopped putting out music, and the two reunited for 2022’s Grateful 4 the Times We Share cassette. Goosewind are back just two years later, and Bunce and his collaborators (this time, Melody Kriesel, Maddelleine Grae, Ruben Marquez, Gerry Hernandez, Rich Jones, and Jen Preciado) have cooked up a forty-five minute CD called The Miracle of Tape. My formal introduction to Goosewind may have come thirty years later, but I almost immediately understood them as true adherents to an important, inventive, and less-remembered strain of indie rock right out of the 1990s.
Other than the obvious Shrimper bands, Goosewind’s underground is the same underground as Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, the Strapping Fieldhands, Souled American, Trumans Water, Skin Graft Records…music that’s compelling and “difficult”–not merely due to recording style, but due to something positively ornery at its core. Half a dozen songs into The Miracle of Tape, every track genuinely sounds like it was written and performed by a different band. To a certain kind of person, it might feel like Goosewind are playing a trick on you–but in reality, they’re not only serious, but just about as honest as they come, too. There’s no easily-digestible, polished package to be found here: just music, beautiful, weird, and impossible to ignore. The six-minute title track opens the record with Shrimper’s version of goth and punk rock, a mid-tempo power chord chugger that’s sure to satisfy neither goth nor punk purists. On the other hand, it’s hard to imagine someone who wouldn’t be charmed by the soaring, glossy, AutoTuned synthpop of “Broken Hearts Club” one song later.
“Rest Stop Tree” and “Fever Pitch” land somewhere between the first two songs on the record–decidedly not for everyone, but if you’re open to either’s terrain (slide guitar-shaded folk music for the former, fuzzed-out glam-punk for the latter), they’re heavenly. These are the “hits” on The Miracle of Tape, but hardly the full story–one that also includes lengthy instrumentals (“It’s Always 1145”, “Rich Metal”), annoying “pirate radio” skits from Kriesel and Bunce (“Murphy’s Law”, “Transylvania Airlines”), and stuff that–there’s no way around it–is just plain weird (“Tourette’s of the Feet”, “Caddy Smells Like Trees”). Even the hits, though, are transmissions from a different world–as tempting as it would be to describe “Rest Stop Tree” as “Neutral Milk Hotel-esque”, it’s probably closer to Charlie McAlister, and while “Fever Pitch” could’ve been a 70s punk classic, it’s actually a cover of a song by Halo, a Los Angeles 90s band also associated with Shrimper. I’ve written about bands that sound like Lungfish before, but this might be the closest music has gotten to the miraculous feeling of going to the aquarium and seeing an actual lungfish. It’s out on CD, but The Miracle of Tape is the right name for it. (Midheaven link)
Lyrics
Lime Time with Clementine
Friend of mine
You’ve been gone far too long since that night at Madame Wong’s
I hope you hear this song
Hey Clem we got a job to do and we’ll get there just fine
I set the fuse now we need the spark at just the right time
Oh so fine
You already done too much time and I don’t think you fit that crime
I gave your guards tequila and limes
Hey Clem we have a job to do and we’ll get there on time
Reach out far between the bars and squeeze the lime rind
Any time of night you make me feel alright you know I love ya my darling Clemetine
Sunset ride you’re by my side live free or die clementine!
Friend of mine
You’ve been gone far too long since that night at Madame Wong’s
I hope you hear this song
Hey Clem we got a job to do and we’ll get there just fine
I set the fuse now we need the spark at just the right time
Oh so fine
You already done too much time and I don’t think you fit that crime
I gave your guards tequila and limes
Hey Clem we have a job to do and we’ll get there on time
Reach out far between the bars and squeeze the lime rind
Any time of night you make me feel alright you know I love ya my darling Clemetine
Sunset ride you’re by my side live free or die clementine!
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