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Stay Down b​/​w Lightning Byrd

by The Detroit Cobras/ Kenny Tudrick

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    AVAILABLE NOW! This split single of The Detroit Cobras' "Stay Down" b/w Kenny Tudrick's "Lightning Byrd" on 7" vinyl is the first release from Black River House Records. Mastered at Third Man Mastering by Bill Skibbe. limited pressing from Third Man Pressing. Art by Slowbeat Design.

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“Lightning Byrd” Bad Bad man Take what you can Bad man Seems to me you're always crying Looks like your living on borrowed time Tell the truth and always be fair Little help I can take you there Got to have hope my friend Take it with you to the end Keep on telling this can’t be real Not enough to beg borrow and steal You got to find a home You got to find a home You got to find a home You got to get where you belong Time will tell if a change will come Or your future will be undone Take some time and see it through We all know you’ll be glad you do You got to find a home You got to find a home You got to find a home You got to get where you belong Bad Bad man Take what you can Bad man Bad Bad man Take what you can Bad man
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The Detroit Cobras' "Stay Down" b/w Kenny Tudrick's "Lightning Byrd" is the first release from Black River House Records.
Both songs, written and recorded by long-time drummer Kenny Tudrick, are greasy, shakin'-in-your-boots groovers!

Detroit Cobras pride themselves on finding obscure b-side gems and making them exciting for new generations. This new source material arrives straight from their own long-time drummer, Kenny Tudrick, who wrote, produced, performed on and recorded the songs. He has been the drummer of the band since the early days, but he also has a solo career as an artist and producer. Playing and rearranging those forgotten rock’n’roll, r'n'b and soul songs for all these years, absorbing their feeling and groove, highly influenced his songwriting.

"Stay Down" is a groover, a spaghetti western influenced song originally written from a drum beat and vocals. "As soon as the song hit me I ran to the drums. I knew it was a Cobras tune" Kenny says, "Band even thought it was an obscure old song when I presented it to them"

"'Lightning Byrd' had a similar approach in the writing, and it felt like the perfect flipside. As Jerry Wexler would say, I concentrated on the 'impact scenario', when the needle drops on the record"

Both tracks are the first to come out of the Black River House recording studio, personally built by Kenny and his friend, Al Sutton over two painstaking years. They refurbished an old RCA tube console by hand, similar to the one that was used in Sun Studios. This release is the first of many to come from The Black River House and on his new label, Black River House Records.

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released February 11, 2020

Recorded at The Black River House

The Detroit Cobras "Stay Down"

Rachel Nagy- Vocals
Mary Restrepo- Guitar
Kenny Tudrick- Drums - Backing Vocals
Steve Nawara- Lead Guitar
Dale Wilson- Bass Guitar
Additional backing vocals by Drea Duchene

Kenny Tudrick "Lightning Byrd"

Kenny Tudrick- Vocals and all instruments
Drea Duchene- Backing vocals

All songs written and produced by Kenny Tudrick
Recored and Mixed by Kenny Tudrick and John Smerek
at the Black River House

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Kenny Tudrick Detroit, Michigan

Kenny Tudrick is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer from Detroit, Michigan. He is the owner and operator of The Black River House, home to his recording studio and record label, Black River House Recordings which saw its first release with The Detroit Cobras' "Stay Down" b/w Kenny Tudrick's "Lightning Byrd" which were written, recorded and produced by Kenny. ... more

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