Name: Red Car
Duration: P00H03M32S
Description: A rootsy soul-country Nashville meets Mildura styled song. Fiona shows her love for Patsy Cline records, ably assisted by Warwick Thomas' group vocal harmony arrangements and James' magnificent guitar work. A song that laments gender role conditioning through childhood.

Red Car

from Junction by Fiona Lee Maynard

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A rootsy soul-country Nashville meets Mildura styled song. Fiona shows her love for Patsy Cline records, ably assisted by Warwick Thomas' group vocal harmony arrangements and James' magnificent guitar work. A song that laments gender role conditioning through childhood.

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All of my brothers,
were driving cars
Telling interesting stories,
inside musical bars
All I wanted,
was to drive just the same
But the day that red car came home
I took some kind of blame

You see my mama
had learned to drive
She got her license
I was not even five
Home came papa,
with a toy car to see
For my little brother
there was no car for me

Families and sharing,
is a real sweet idea
But when that red car came home,
it all became clear
Nightmares with tractors
haunted my head
“That’s for my boy, not you!”
was what he said

Sure that I’d been a good girl,
O it didn’t seem fair
My brother was much too young,
to see my despair
I’d already stopped crying,
cause that’s what big girls do

And the boy got the red car
Whilst the girl got all
Blue.

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from Junction, released January 22, 2024
© Fiona Lee Maynard Lyrics & Music
Recorded and engineered by Warwick Thomas at Sound Concepts
Mastered by Joe Carra at Crystal Mastering
Produced by Fiona Lee Maynard & Warwick Thomas

Fiona Lee Maynard – Lead Vocals, Rhythm acoustic guitar, acoustic bass
Warwick Thomas – Harmony Vocal arrangements & performances,Wood Block
James Lomas – Guitar

Photography - Tameika Brumby

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Fiona Lee Maynard Melbourne, Australia

Fiona Lee Maynard shows her folk roots in a musical memoir recorded while waiting to donate a kidney to her husband. Identified by critics as a songwriter with a lot to say and an endless vocabulary of emotions with which to say it, her new album Junction serves up 11 songs spawned from needing to raise her own spirits and shared in the hope they will do the same for listeners. ... more

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