1989 back cover photograph by Roger Gordy for the Walkers' And at the end of the day...
WALKERS are --
Manny Verzosa (Singing & Harmonica)
Patrick Newbery (Acoustic Guitar)
Carl Coletti (Drums & Suitcase)
Mike Denneen (Piano, Melodica & Singing)
Tom Dube (Singing & Acoustic Guitar)
Michael Rivard (Acoustic & Fretless Bass)
Adam Steinberg (Electric & Acoustic 6 and 12 String Guitar)
Bill Conway (Drums on "89¢")
Album Design by Kevin G. Farman
Written in the State of Maine
Produced and Engineered by Tom Dube and Mike Denneen
Assistant Engineer: Jon Lupfer
Recorded at Q Division, Boston, MA
Digital pre-mastering by Dr. Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital
© 1989 Newbery/Verzosa and Wallpaper Music
89¢ (Coffee on the Dashboard)
One of many great songs by Pat and Manny. I fondly recall a time ca. 1989 when the Walkers played The Middle East Restaurant and Lounge in Cambridge, MA and Manny introduced the song as "89 Stitches." Before the gig, I'd shared a story from when I was in eighth grade and my class had seen Gone With the Wind in a public theater, during the show I'd been introduced to a certain oral tradition by a lusty lass in the dark recesses of a balcony, afterwards I'd an unrelated and unexpected adolecent moment with a classmate and chased him from the school, though erred with a glass door which ...cut me significantly and I received ...eighty-nine stitches on my right arm from my hormonal exercises. I pass this along because it's easy, even though there are other songs by Pat and Manny that are dearer to me. Fine folk, those Walkers, and I miss Manny still. Enjoy, profit in your heart and not your wallet and share what remains ...at the end of the day. If not sooner...
Sincerest regards,
Rick
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