The Loomers & Jon Svetkey
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Not Over You
Reeling Down A Road - The Loomers -
Any More
yeahyeahyeah - Jon Svetkey -
Still Falling
Reeling Down A Road - The Loomers -
Paul McCartney Got It Right
Reeling Down A Road - The Loomers -
Dust It Off
Reeling Down A Road - The Loomers -
As Long As There's Forever
Reeling Down A Road - The Loomers -
Holding On To You
Tomorrow Today - The Loomers -
Hope
Tomorrow Today (by The Loomers) - Jon Svetkey
Dust It Off by The Loomers
Lyrics
DUST IT OFF
In a corner of the attic
Out of sight, out of mind
Stashed behind old coats and blankets
Long gone, hard to find
It sits there like a bad decision taunting you again
Reminding you of what you wished and wanted way back when
CHORUS
Dust it off
Dust it off
Dust it off
Dust it off
Dust it off
In a flimsy, cardboard case
Taped together, stained with beer
It’s followed you from place to place
No complaints, year after year
It asks you like a long lost friend sighing on the phone
“Remember how we used to say we’d go out on the road?”
CHORUS
SOLO
CHORUS
In a second time is frozen
Everything today is gone
Here’s the path you might have chosen
String it up, strap it on
You hold it like you held your girlfriend dancing at the prom
Suddenly you’re strumming that old Allman Brothers song
Dust it off
Liner notes
This is a song about reclaiming a part of your past. The narrator being a guy who used to play guitar in high school/college and now, many years later, decides to pick up his lost love once again.
Additional artist information
Back in the 1990s, before his current job as stay-at-home dad to two beautiful children, Jon headlined at dozens of folk clubs, colleges and coffeehouses throughout the Northeast and Midwest.
He shared "writers-in-the-round" nights with the likes of Kristian Bush, Shawn Mullins, Peirce Pettis, Dar Williams and Carrie Newcomer. He was privileged to open for stellar songwriters like Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III, John Wesley Harding, Peter Case, John Gorka, Cheryl Wheeler, David Mallett and Danny O'Keefe.
He was also one of the founders of End Construction Productions (with Ellis Paul, Jim Infantino and Brian Doser), the songwriter's collective that was the catalyst for the resurgence of the New England folk scene in the early 1990s.
Jon's first two solo albums, this is NOW and yeahyeahyeah, received tons of airplay on folk radio stations, as well as excellent reviews from critics and fans alike. His last solo album, Take A Breath, -- a live-in-one-take, career-up-to-that-moment retrospective of sorts -- was released in 2004.
In 1994, Jon decided to start The Loomers. They have released five albums of Jon's songs -- Reeling Down A Road (2010), Tomorrow Today (2006), Shine (2004), Simple As That (1998), and Escalation (1997) -- and, despite leading full lives with jobs and children, still manage to gig monthly.
Jon's songs have appeared on MTV, PBS, NBC, The Dr. Demento Show and several nationally distributed compilation albums. Jon has also sung, or played guitar, on albums by Ellis Paul, Don Conoscenti, and Jim Infantino to drop just a few names. And, in addition to serving as songwriter for The Loomers, Jon has written a bunch of songs with folksinger Don White.