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Birth of Joshaa

from The Juvenalias by William Remmers

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"His name was Joshaa and his destiny/Would affect the lives of you and me"
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8TH GRADE

THE JOSHAA LP is a mixed bag. After the EP several months earlier, I put out this two-disc set, both discs maxing out at 80 minutes on the nose. Disc One presented the non-Joshaa-universe songs from the EP ("Leonardo" and "Doggie" and a couple of others; I had the humility at the time to NOT include every track because I remember, after a couple months, already being embarrassed by one of them. Really, Bill? Just one?) as well as two long extended jam tracks (8 minutes and 20 minutes, respectively; I hadn't heard them in the many years since and, in reviewing them for this release, I learned that those many years were too few). The jams served to show off that I had since picked up a cheap bass and a mandolin and added those to the arsenal. Finally, the first disc included 40 minutes of badly performed covers from The White Album, more on that later.

Disc 2 is really the raison d'être, a full-disc rock opera about Joshaa, a kid who saves the universe or something. Track one of this disc was the rebranded Overture you just heard. The Overture tells a pretty complete little story, totally different from the story in the album to follow, though including some musical material that will end up getting reused. So the album really starts here, with the first track operating as the folk hero myth and this song presenting a literal origin story and journey for the character.

Good news, everyone. This was the first song for which I ever wrote the lyrics out in advance. I included one-sentence liner notes in the LP's packaging (the covers, front and backs of both discs, were really cute, I especially like the dates appear in the corner of every image used). For this song, I wrote at the time: "Finally, a GOOD song." True then and true now. This song shows the best possible version of the usual MO: lead vocals down the center, and random backup nonsense panned to the sides. It paid to prepare. I could have started this album here and saved us all a lot of time, but we ain't got anywhere to go.

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from The Juvenalias, released May 1, 2020

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William Remmers has been doing music since he was a prattling babe.

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