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I Simplify

by Kenny Selcer

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I Know It’s Not Too Late ©12/08 Kenny Selcer Even when the well runs dry. Even when I can’t touch the sky. Even though I might make a mistake, I know it’s not too late. Even when the sun don’t shine. Even when I walk the line. Even when I miss your touch, I know it’s not too late. I know it’s not too late. Things they come and things they go. Things go fast and then go slow. Things go up and then go down I’ll miss you all the same. Even when I’m all alone. Even when I’m not feeling strong. Even when I shed a tear, I know it’s not too late. I know it’s not too late. The future calls, I hear it so well, it’s clear as a bell. I hear the sound, it’s all around, I want someone to tell. Bring on the new, it’s happening to you, you know it’s true. I know it so well, want someone to tell, so I’m talking to you. -solo- Things they come and things they go. Things go fast and then go slow. Things go up and then go down, well I’ll miss you all the same. Even when I’m feeling blue. Even when I’m not talking to you. Even though my heart may break. I know it’s not too late. I know it’s not too late. The future calls, I hear it so well, it’s clear as a bell. I hear the sound, it’s all around, I want someone to tell. Even when the well runs dry. Even when I can’t kiss the sky. Even though I might make a mistake, I know it’s not too late. I know it’s not too late. I know it’s not too late.
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It’s All Around You (A Thing Called Love) ©10/07 Ken Selcer Baby, it’s cold outside. I wanna take you on a ride. to the stars above, to a thing called love - it’s all around you. I can see the future. I can see what’s to become of us. We’ll ride the sun, and have some fun - it’s all around you. Listen babe, we can’t be wrong. Listen now, it’s in this song. Have some faith in what’s in you strong. How little do we know? How little we let show? Baby, I’ll hold you tight. I’ll love you with all my might. With the world in view, just we two - I’ll be around you. Listen babe, we can’t be wrong. Listen now, it’s in this song. Have some faith in what’s in you strong. How little do we know? How little we let show? Another day, another battle to be won. Another reason keeps you on the run. Let it go, let it be just what it is Something else to do, it’s better to be true. Baby, It’s cold outside. I wanna take you on a ride. Above the clouds, above the crowds, look it’s all around you. A thing called love - it’s all around you. A thing called love - it’s all around you. A thing called love - it’s all around you.
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Fell For You Hard 3/06 Ken Selcer I saw my true love walking towards me the other day. I saw my one true love. I saw a dream coming putting me into disarray Giving me quite a shove. I was falling for you baby, falling for you hard. falling for you baby, catching me off my guard. Sweet memories fill my inner visions. Sweet sunshine warm my soul. You knocked away my natural indecision. Reaching out was now my goal. I was falling for you baby, falling for you hard. falling for you baby, catching me off my guard. I was falling for you baby, falling for you hard. falling for you baby, laying out all my cards. One minute I was thinking I was right here. Next minute I was gone. One second I was feeling like my own man. Next moment I was wrong. I was falling for you baby, falling for you hard. falling for you baby, catching me off my guard. I was falling for you baby, falling for you hard. falling for you baby, laying out all my cards. I got a thing for the whole situation. I got a thing for you. Good feeling for the whole situation. Good feeling for you. Got together on your instigation. Guess it was mine too. I wanna make a final observation. I know it’s long overdue. Well, I fell for you baby, fell for you hard. fell for you baby, caught off my guard. fell for you baby, fell for you hard. fell for you baby, layed out all my cards).
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I’m So Worried ©3-2008 Kenny Selcer I’m so worried - I can’t talk to you about it. I’m so worried - I can’t sleep tonight. I’m up, my mind wandering like wild geese(birds) in the sky. I can’t quiet the voices no matter how I try. So I Say, Come with me and help me through the night, baby. This is no time to be alone I say. Come with me and help me feel all right, baby. I want to lose myself in your sweet love I say. All I hear each day is pain and misery, From all of the people I meet in my home town you see. Their fate, and tomorrow, it’s not so plain to see. Nobody knows - They say what’s to become of me. So I Say, Come with me and help me through the night, baby. This is no time to be alone I say. Come with me and help me feel all right, baby. I want to lose myself in your sweet love I say Trouble trouble all around us. Trouble trouble can’t you see? Trouble trouble it surrounds us. Trouble trouble for you and me. I remember the times when all was good around us. It seems so very very long ago. We stayed up every night, singin, talkin’ and lovin’. Feeling like the times would never end. So I Say, Come with me and help me through the night, baby. This is no time to be alone I say. Come with me and help me feel all right, baby. I want to lose myself in your sweet love I say.
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Evelyn 04:26
Evelyn (Drawing Me to its Light) 3/20/06 Ken Selcer Evelyn, say goodbye or stay awhile Let me know soon. Evelyn, wave your hand or give a smile Let me know soon. The moon sits high in the sky drawing me to its light. Pulling me up and out and away, Evelyn I wanna feel right. Tonight is one of many many nights I have been alone. My memory stretches back to remember those I have known. Faces recede into the cloudy mists of time and all those I’ve loved and have lived with What’s the reason and rhyme? The moon sits high in the sky drawing me to its light. Pulling me up and out and away, Evelyn I wanna feel right. We all make promises to ourselves we can’t keep. We all take roads by ourselves that are too steep. Evelyn, say goodbye or stay awhile Let me know soon. Evelyn, wave your hand or give a smile Let me know soon. The moon sits high in the sky drawing me to its light. Pulling me up and out and away, Evelyn I wanna feel right.
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Without You 04:57
Without You ©12/06 Ken Selcer Make no mistake I don’t want to live without you. Make no mistake it’d be hard to live without you. Sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Sun high in the sky, the moon at its rest. Stars show how long we’ve been on this earth. Look around and tell me what’s it’s worth without you, without you, without you. Make no mistake I don’t want to live without you. Make no mistake it’d be hard to live without you. Mountains so large and events make us feel small. Feeling low you don’t know who to call. Ocean’s rising and sky’s about to fall. Look around it’s so hard to feel tall, without you, without you, without you. I saw my reflection in the mirror this morning. I saw my life as I lay in bed last night. I saw the face of one who’s grown older. I saw my life held out to the light. Make no mistake I don’t want to live without you. Make no mistake it’d be hard to live without you. Every morning I wake to these blues. Every morning I wake up to the news. Pull some clothes on, put on some old shoes. Walk downstairs, I’m still paying these dues, without you, without you, without you. Make no mistake I don’t want to live without you. Make no mistake it’d be hard to live without you. Make no mistake I don’t want to live without you. Make no mistake it’d be hard to live without you.
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It Was You 04:29
It Was You ©Ken Selcer 8/2006 I saw the light, the other night It was you, you were in my sight. I was blue, without you There you were, it’s all true. Walkin’ down the city street, smilin’ at everyone I meet. You could see just how I felt, listen now, I couldn’t be beat. I got time, now that you’re mine It was you, I’m outta my mind. Witness to each season going back & forth & back. Looking for a reason to ignore what I did lack. I never expected it to come out this way at all. See what I do see. I got time, now that you’re mine It was you, made me lose my mind. Feeling so good, knew that I would You’re in my arms, as you should. -solos Skippin’ round the city block, faster and faster, there is no clock. I don’t care what you say, nothin’ you do will make me stop. I’ve been around, I’ve heard the sound Of my heart beat, go pound and pound. You are the one, the only one To make my heart feel, second to none. Witness to each season going back & forth & back. Looking for a reason to ignore what I did lack. I never expected it to come out this way at all. See what I do see. I saw the light, the other night It was you, you were in my sight. I was blue, without you There you were, it’s all true.
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I Simplify 05:39
I Simplify ©2007 Ken Selcer I’ve been walking down this road too long, time keeps slippin’ away. I’ve been kicking back my heels too long, I’ve been waiting to find my way. Every day I seem a bit confused, a little used and somewhat diffused Every day I draw the light from the dark trying in my way to light a spark. I’ve been living on the edge too long, I’ve been feeling out of step. But I’ve been thinking that the signs are strong, I’ll move along & get there yet. Every time I wonder why I think this way, you know it’s do or die. Every time I have to try to not deny, so I simplify. I’ve been making it very hard for myself, spending all my time alone. I’ve been taking it on all by myself, I’ve been sinking like a stone. Hear the wonders of all the sounds See the pretty girls who still astound See the sparkle in your eye Like sunshine on leaves in mid July I smell the rose of your skin - Feel the things that might have been Touch the core of what unifies - Touching you I simplify I’ve been working in a dream too long, I’ve been working all my life. I’ve been holding back a scream too long, I’ve been quiet all my life. Every day I seem a bit confused, a little used and somewhat diffused Every day I draw the light from the dark trying in my way to light a spark. I’ve turned the corner after it’s said and done, no stopping of what’s begun. I’ve turned the corner there’s no alibi, nothin’ to do but simplify. simplify, simplify, simplify, simplify
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Take Some Time ©7/10 Kenny Selcer Take some time to see all the things we can do together. We can do anything at all. Take some time to see what’s really really important to us all now. We can be anyway we want. Feel the winds blowin’ through to you. Feel the sun shinin’ bright. Feel the touch of my fingers on your skin. There is no time or reason to wait. Take a look at the writings on the wall, it’s comin’ down soon it seems so clear. I don’t know if there is any hope of stopping what’s to become of us I can see the fear. Feel the touch of my hands in your hair Feel the rhythm of the Earth. Take a breath let it out, let it go There is no time or reason to wait There is no rhyme or reason to hate. I’m going back to where it started, it stretches out in front of me. Won’t you come along, come along now. I’m goin’ to fly into the place where dreams are made and come alive. Won’t you come along, come along now. You’ll always be the part of me that moves me and reminds me of what I can do - it’s all for you - and it’s all for me. I’m goin’ to the place where I can be together with my thoughts of you and my thoughts of me. Take some time to see all the things we can do together. We can do anything at all. Take some time to see what’s really really important to us all now. We can be anyway we want. Feel the touch of my hands on your face. Feel the rhythm of the Earth. Take a breath let it out, let it go There is no time or reason to wait There is no rhyme or reason to hate.
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Kenny's Tune 04:19
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Lift Me Higher ©6/05 Ken Selcer I don’t want to drag behind, wondering how I could change your mind. I forget how much I’m doing, I look around it’s all in ruin. Find out where I went wrong. live without it makes me strong. Look within one more day, I know there ain’t no reason to stay. I ask you... Lift me higher then I’ve ever gone before My one desire is to see you once more. Talking about what’s plain to see, I don’t want you to carry me. Walking ‘round lost in doubt, I guess I know I am worn-out. Feeling happy, feeling sad, feeling lucky, don’t make me mad, just... Lift me higher then I’ve ever gone before My one desire is to see you once more. Waves are breaking Rain is falling down. Earth is shaking. Looking for solid ground. What can I say? It’s all been said, looking back at the life I’ve led. Different ways to see what’s past, hangin’ on to make it last, Finally something to break the spell, pick me up from where I fell and.... Lift me higher then I’ve ever gone before My one desire is to see you once more. Waves are breaking Rain is falling down. Earth is shaking. Looking for solid ground. Lift me higher then I’ve ever gone before My one desire is to see you once more.. Lift me higher....
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Coming Back To You ©11/19/10 Kenny Selcer Happy Happy, my feet can’t stop movin’. My hands and arms are waving all over the place. Happy Happy, my smile can’t get no wider I’m coming back to you - coming back to you. Happy Happy, my eyes see what’s comin’ My thoughts are whirlin’ twirlin’ round in my head. Happy Happy, the sun is a risin’, ‘cause I’m coming back to you - coming back to you. Dancin’ Dancin’, get up and move your body I promise everything will be all right. Dancin’ Dancin’, everyone is ready Feel the rhythm and the beat movin’ to the rhythm and the beat. We’ll go down to the river, watch the sun leave the sky. We’ll dream of tomorrow, it’ll happen by and by. We’ll bask in the moonlight, feel the wind brush our skin. Sync our breathing to each other, letting love begin. Happy Happy, everyone is singing All our voices reaching clear up to the sky. Happy Happy, can’t wait to touch you I’m coming back to you - coming back to you. I’m coming back to you - coming back to you.
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Street Night 04:06
Street Nights ©2007-2011Kenny Selcer As the night whips my passion into a frenzy. I walk the streets looking everywhere for you. The wind whispers your name in my ear and though I am alone, you are everywhere. The shadows reflect my heart as my thoughts of you slip away beneath the light of the moon. Behind the building windows, I imagine couples embracing and I hear the moans in the swaying curtains. I can't take it anymore. I want to shout no more. I want to be alone again with my thoughts without you sneaking your way into everything I do. But I can't. The night whips my passion into a frenzy. I want to shout - no mas. I stumble on into the night as my visions of a time when the pain is no more lead my way. My thoughts vacillate back and forth between wanting to continue this game of love with you or finding a way out of the maze that I've created for myself. I want to shout no mas. I want to be alone again with my thoughts. But I can't. The night whips my passion into a frenzy. My visions of you float down in the snowflakes that have started to fall around me. The ice beneath my feet keeps my feelings slipping in and out of focus, daring me to plant myself firmly one way or the other. The empty streets remind me that there is nothing with me except my dreams and desires waiting to be filled with anything I want to do and wherever I want to go. But the night whips my passion into a frenzy, and I keep shuffling through the streets looking everywhere for you but finding only myself and the tearing of my heart. I stagger out into the light of the street lamps, my shadow splaying on the wall as if drunk, changing shape as the light hits me as I move to some ancient unspoken hunger. My vision gets confused as the light dims with heavy falling snow and my thoughts are overcome with a yearning that pushes my mind out and away. I can’t tell if the wetness on my face is tears or the melting of the flakes hitting my skin. The wind whips my passion into a frenzy. I hear a bell in the distance that momentarily awakens me from my delirium. I recognize the ringing of a clock that reminds me of the reason for my emotional frenzy. Your chimera mixes with my shadows on the buildings and beckons me once again to continue my search for you in my thoughts and feelings. I can't take it anymore. I want to shout no more. I want to be alone again with my thoughts without you sneaking your way into everything I do. But I can't. The night whips my passion into a frenzy. I want to shout - no mas. and I continue to shuffle through the streets looking everywhere for you but finding only myself and the tearing of my heart.
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Stay Awhile 05:05
Stay Awhile ©10/00 - 2/01 Ken Selcer Game over - she told me as the light streamed through the morning window. Game over - she told me as the sun beat down on the freshly fallen snow. Move over - you can’t stop me from walking - she headed for the door. Game over - time stood still as the sun brought forth a brand new day.... I’m tryin’ to find the words to make it all better - I know I was wrong. I’m cryin’ out baby, listen please listen to what I have to say. It’s starting to come clear, everything about you is turning me around. & I’m tryin’, it’s all about to change, I feel it in my bones.... Save the last dance for the one who loves you more than you know. Save the last chance for the one who loves you most of all. Stay awhile, stay while - it’ll be worthwhile, to Stay awhile, stay awhile - you’ll make me smile. Stay awhile, stay awhile - I want to know if you’ll Stay awhile, stay awhile - please don’t say no......... Sun shinin’ - vivid are the worlds I’ve traveled with you on my arm. Ice melting - the hardness of my heart is finally starting to dissolve. Wind blowing - I’m bending all the rules, baby, I’ve set for myself. It’s all a wonder - everything around me always reminds me of you, reminds me of you. Save the last dance for the one who loves you more than you know. Save the last chance for the one who loves you most of all. Save the last dance for the one who loves you more than you know. Save the last chance for the one who loves you most of all.

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Review of Kenny Selcer- I Simplify:

For those of us waiting forever and a day it seemed for new product from Kenny Selcer the reward for the five or so year pause has ceased!

While Kenny's touring schedule and musical commitments may have kept him out of the recording studio there has never been a lessening of his luminous stage performances.

Kenny's follow-up to the superlative Don't Forget About Me called I Simplify continues his incredible talent to craft tunes that flourish in the studio and resonate on the concert stage.  We are gifted with fourteen tracks that will take you on a musical roller-coaster from multifarious styles and genres.

When you listen to I Simplify notice the length of time of each track. None clock in under four minutes.  This is stated to solidify Kenny's commitment to his art and the fans expectations.  It is never about forcing a radio friendly tune that may win an isolated battle but would lose the Rock & Roll War.

The opening track I Know It's Not Too Late conjures up sounds of early Dire Straits. Kenny not only grabs your attention from the initial notes but holds it throughout the CD's sixty-eight minute journey to the past, present, and future.

It's All Around You would make Tom Petty proud.  Kenny has captured the sound and the feel but while paying homage make no mistake it is still his own voice.

A tune getting a lot of attention is Without You. Think Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 meets Kenny Selcer and it begins to make sense. His ability to change style and vocal inflection from song to song is rare in the industry and to achieve desired results without any notes ever being forced is even more obscure in today's lack luster musical landscape.

It Was You will have fans of Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, and Gene Vincent engrossed as to how in 2017 Kenny is delivering a knockout blow with a cross of Rockabilly and Swing.

Wisely woven in the web is an instrumental Kenny's Song.  Its purpose is multi-fold. First it shows his ability as a guitar-player too long underrated in the field.  Secondly placing it as Track 10 lets us digest the lyrical caravan we have been riding during the previous nine.

Ending the sojourn Kenny is joined by a longtime friend Steve Gilligan (legendary New England Band The Stompers) contributing the bass-lines on Stay Awhile.  In the realm of the recent works of John Mellencamp.  A flawless finale to the CD or should we say beginning as I'm not alone hitting the replay button.

Craig Fenton
Author: Jefferson Airplane- Take Me To A Circus Tent
Jefferson Starship- Have You Seen The Stars Tonite
Artist: Kenny Selcer

CD I Simplify
14 tracks

Review:
On Kenny Selcer’s long-awaited ambitious effort, I Simplify, New England’s veteran acoustic / Americana minstrel has put together an album that fuses Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street nuances with Grateful Dead guitar/keyboard interplay. Those Stones’ nuances are subtle, an undercurrent on the opening track, “I Know It’s Not Too Late,” Selcer’s philosophical observations rife with intentional simple word structure a la Bernie Taupin in Elton John’s classic “Daniel,” taking the “rain in Spain” cliché rhymes and using them to good effect. “It’s All Around You” was in release a few months before the album (an electronic, internet single, of sorts) and it is beautifully constructed with Steve Peabody’s drums giving the reggae flavored love song it’s march along beat. The production is exquisite, Selcer the former owner of a recording studio in Boston back in the 1980s and live sound engineer who has worked with too many name artists to list here, places instrumentation and voice perfectly. Each song is over four minutes, so the fourteen tracks make for a lengthy listening experience, about seventy minutes or so.

The four and a half minute “Evelyn” is a standout and has Selcer on mandolin and most instruments a la Emmit Rhodes and Paul McCartney, Rob Rudin helping out with some of the drum programming. For the Americana Pop that the song is, there’s a flavor of blues in the singing and lyric.

The title track at 5:39 is the longest, an epic with the rhythmic beats accented, a heavy reggae boost with Selcer choosing multiple light guitar licks and backing vocals to boost the vibe. Mixed by Matt Hayes at Wellspring Sound in 2016 with the studio owner, Eric Kilburn, handling the mastering, the love and care put into this project is clear, as exhibited in the Celtic instrumental “Kenny’s Tune,” a truly inventive mix of sounds that is compelling bringing to mind when voiceless pop songs would rule the airwaves, Paul Mauriat’s “Love is Blue,” the timeless “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” by Sounds Orchestral, the airy, catchy, splendid sounds before Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein” developed the hard rock instrumental as a hit record. Final track “Stay Awhile” features Stompers/Fox Pass bassist Steve Gilligan, with keyboards from Chris Billias and Mike Migliozzi on drums. The use of a band brings another flavor to a mostly self-performed album though players Roland Ochsenbein on piano, conga/percussionist Manolo Mairena and bassist Andy Solberg add their talents throughout, this is mostly a self-performed project with Kenny Selcer bringing to life some of his BMI administered catalog featuring music and words that span fifteen years, from 2001 to 2016. (Joe Viglione)

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released December 26, 2016

Produced by Kenny Selcer
Mixed by Matt Hayes in 2016, except for It's All Around You and Evelyn, mixed by Huck Bennert 2006-2007.
Recorded at Wellspring Sound, Acton, MA (Dave Rizzuti and Huck Bennert) and at Kenny's house, Lexington, MA (by Kenny Selcer) and Harvard, MA.
Mastered by Eric Kilburn at Wellspring Sound, Acton, MA October, 2016,

Kenny Selcer - all guitars, bass, keyboards, mandolin, all vocals, percussion, drum programming.
Mike Migliozzi - drums on 1, 3, 4, 7, 9,12,14
Andy Solberg - bass on 1, 3, 4, 7, 9,12
Chris Billias - keyboards on 1, 3, 4, 9, 12,14
Manolo Mairena - congas, percussion on 1, 3, 4, 9, 12,
Steve Gilligan - bass on 14
Roland Ochsenbein - piano on 7
Steve Peabody - drums on 2, 11
Rob Rudin - help on drum programming on 5

all music/lyrics ©2001-2016 Kenny Selcer, BMI

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