Here’s an acoustic demo of the song “The Last of Your Kidnapped Brides”.  A lovely full band version of this appears on our CD Low.  This one suffers from the absence of the B3, the Pigeon Club’s beautifully out of tune piano, and Mia Riddle’s backing vocals, but the general structure of the song remains unchanged.

I wrote the song after seeing a documentary about these women in Uzbekistan who are kidnapped and forced to marry.  The documentary looked out how many of the women eventually settle into their marriages and end up relatively happy.  In the end, they allow their own daughter’s to continue the cycle.  The lyric is intended to be a daughter addressing her mother as the moment of her kidnapping approaches.

Next upload will feature Jim Kaznosky on vocals!

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