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And still you do
The best you can
Even when
It’s very clear
It’s not enough.

(Messy Little World)

Welcome. Your World Tour begins on the shores of the Known World, the place you think you know. You will visit the streets of Brooklyn, and take a free ride in an Ambulance that runs on pure anxiety. When the sun sets, and you begin to question what you know, the tour crosses the Singing Bridge over the Big River to the new place, Dingee. You'll meet a young girl there whose heart has been broken and who seeks to be healed. What do you know? Leaving Dingee you ferry across the Sea of Discord to the Dream Dump to be serenaded by Jenny, Harry, Peter and Paul -- people who thought they knew. While there on that little gray island that smokes, Andy Paper Heart will take you on a special tour -- a meat packing plant! Where are you now? Wave goodbye then to all your new friends at the Dream Dump. It's time -- take a deep breath – breathe in, breathe out -- to set sail upon the dangerous waters of the Straights of nkan bound for the uncertain shores of the great unexplored territory. There you will learn the world to make is your own --don't be the buffalo. Finally, over the Sunlit Sea, make your dreamy return trip home to a Neo-Known Sea, a Neo-Known World and welcome the ever-present problems of animals, love, eternal reoccurrence and dizziness. We hope you enjoy your trip. Send us a postcard.

Bon Voyage!




A Bio



Andy Harrington met Pooh Sprague and Tim Augustinowicz through their mutual acquaintances Rick and Davey Davis in Brownsville, Vermont in 1980 and began a very informal musical partnership which later became the Andy Harrington Band.
Roughly speaking, in the beginning, Andy wrote the songs, Tim and Pooh picked out the “good ones”, and Pooh arranged them. The lineup had Andy on rhythm guitar, Tim on drums, and Pooh on bass. They all sang.
After a short bit playing together in the Rick Davis Band, the three rehearsed as a stand-alone band and had a less than auspicious debut where critics roared, "too much empty space.” The partners then enlisted guitarist and songwriter Mike Veitch to fill some holes – holes were out in the 80’s.
The new band debuted at the Davey Davis pig roast at Mt. Ascutney in Brownsville – we forget the year – and finally, no one threw bottles.
But following engagements in a seaside bar, around a campfire and in a horse barn, Pooh decided to back away and brokered a deal with an unsuspecting Bob and Jenny Neale to join Andy, Tim and Mike and form a new band.
The years peeled away.
The new band broke up.
Andy, Pooh and Tim got together occasionally to hash out old tunes and piece together new ones.
And more time passed...
In 2000, some 20 years on, Davey Davis (once again) was on the hunt to fill his summer bill and persuaded Andy, Pooh and Tim to dust off for a gig at Hawk Mountain in Plymouth, Vermont. At Pooh’s urging, Doug Southworth joined to play keyboards – the hole thing, again.
The band, with help from Davey, Kevin Forrest and Ken Norcross, caught the attention of the Pentangle Council of the Arts in Woodstock and was hired to play the council’s summer concert in 2001 and the fourth of July concert in Woodstock, Vermont in 2002. Longtime band collaborator Dave Baldwin came out from California and recorded the July 4th concert and thus began what would become ‘world tour.’
The band was concurrently recording songs at Norcross Studio in Hammondsville, Vermont – “Brooklyn” and “Jenny.”
In the fall of 2002 the band performed at Davey Davis’ wedding in Cornish, New Hampshire and when no opportunities surfaced, they enjoyed a hiatus over the winter to pursue other interests.
Ken Norcross joined the band in 2003 for several gigs at a club in Bradford Vermont. And Dave Baldwin again came in from California and recorded the last concert on Dec. 18th.
Another lengthy hiatus ensued.
Quietly, in 2006, the band released “world tour”, a 10-song album that captures the warmth and humor of the band in both live and studio settings as well as its longtime commitment to its music and its own understanding and treatment of ‘the hole thing' which has since come to be called the exploration of space.


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Honey Block

The Honey Block
had muskrat eyes
so I carved a face
and ate the shavings
then
plunging my fingers
into the fruit
gave birth a liver
which recalled my father
who traded the pelts
of muskrats trapped
for the honey'd ham
of Christmas Day
and from my mouth
I then drew out
a long black hair,
the muskrat.


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The Play Is the Thing

Picasso's Blue Guitarist
Held his black soul out
To the white light and
The audience howled
With laughter, delight.

The mad masses made
Their laughter to ridicule,
It was
Their drunken hearts' delight.

They tore and then they ripped
The heart out of hope.

Still, later
That night
They mocked in full
His offering
And further mocked ‘till threat was made
To crush the final flower
To take it up
In bloated fist
When suddenly
Dressed high
In black and purple riding
Kingly 'pon his charger of gray
The Purple Hand sprang forth
And decreed the crowd listen

To Picasso's Blue Guitarist
Who was by then
Bleeding from
His eyes, his ears & mouth...

A fragile pedal,
He was
So carelessly handled
That near was he to that state
Of being all dead.

His crown had fallen
on the ground.
The Purple Hand had grabbed it,
&
Pulling him toward a void,
When

He smiled a knowing smile,
Turned his back and
Let it go.

Track List:
1. messy little world
2. ambulance
3. brooklyn
4. heal the hurt
5. jenny
6. harry
7. meat packing world
8. breathe in, breathe out
9. don't be a buffalo
10. animal love

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Other Genres:

• ROCK: Roots Rock
• BLUES: Rhythm & Blues
• TYPE: LIVE RECORDINGS