The Santiago Steps


The tracks posted here each week (or so) represent archival and new material. You can listen to the tracks in the player or you can click on the song titles to download them. Most have not been properly mastered (or mastered at all), so you may need to turn the speakers up loud, as you'll want to do anyway. (Offers of cheap, quality mastering will be entertained...)


	Silent Night Posted December 21 2010 4-track recording from way back in the day. Carolyn: voice; Chris: instruments.

	Sweet as They Come Posted August 4 2010 Recorded 2003? 2005? (One’s memory slips…) Drums, singing: Scott; bass: Lance; trumpet: Roy; guitars, singing: Chris; sax, singing: Carolyn.

	Worlds Gone Posted July 19 2010 Rhythm track recorded ca. 2004; guitars and singing July 2010. Bass: Lance; drums: Scott; guitars & singing: Chris.

	Peace 2 the World Posted June 23 2010 Recorded around 2001. Singing: Carolyn; instruments, singing: Chris.

	Girls Talk Posted June 7 2010 Recorded May-June 2010. Singing, piano: Carolyn; guitars, bass, piano, background singing: Chris; drums: Scott; background singing: Dawn Trook. Song written by Declan MacManus.

	Vague Anthem Posted May 24 2010 Recorded between 2000 - 2003 on 8 tracks. For V.W. Drums: Scott; singing, guitars, bells: Chris; sax, singing: Carolyn; bass: Jeff Nelson; trumpet: Roy. An attempt at terza rima.

	100 Stones [Wordless] Posted May 5 2010 Recorded 2007 and/or 2008, for a re-cut of the documentary Way of the Puck. Don't know if it was used. This song is screaming to be used on a surf movie, so if you're making one, have your people contact our people, i.e., us, immediately. Drums (recycled from "Way Away"): Scott; guitar, singing: Chris; singing: Carolyn; bass: Lance; background yelling & crying: Davidson boys.

	Hey Colorada! Posted Apr. 22 2010 Recorded 2006 – 2008 in Seal Beach, the last song on the Hey Colorada ep. Drums: Scott; guitars, singing, keyboards, drum machine: Chris; singing: Carolyn; bass: Lance.

	Radio On Posted Apr. 18 2010 Another old, from-the-archives track. Early 2000s. Drums: Scott; bass: Jeff Nelson; guitars, tambourine, singing: Chris; singing: Carolyn. Title lifted from 'Roadrunner.'

	Orange Julius Posted Apr. 3 2010 Track started in 2001 or so-can't say for sure. Completed April 2010. (Nine years and hundreds of thousands of man hours later…) Drums: Scott; guitars, bass, organ, singing: Chris; singing: Carolyn; trumpet: Roy.

	Try Posted Mar. 22 2010 Track originally included on the (very) limited edition Hey Colorada ep (Dec. 2008). Started around 2000 in Orange on an ADAT machine, worked on again in 2006 or so, and completed fall 2008 in Seal Beach on a 24-track machine. Music mostly written by Jeff Nelson. Drums, percussion, singing: Scott; bass, acoustic guitar, singing: Jeff Nelson; electric guitars, harmonica, singing: Chris; piano, singing: Carolyn. The drums amount to one of my favorite of Scott’s performances. The dialogue is from the film Vision Quest (1985).

	Breathing Still Posted Mar. 8 2010 Recorded 2005. This is an alternative to the low-fi version that appeared on Points & Corners. Both contain a line, "the body wants to hold on," borrowed from the writings of Dawn Trook. Music co-written by Ted Flynn. Drums, wood blocks, shaker: Scott; bass: Lance; guitars, loops, drum machine, organ, piano, singing: Chris; keyboard: Roy; sax, singing: Carolyn; adorable cooing: (baby) Eli.

	Good Cookie Posted Feb. 23 2010 Recorded 2001 or 2002 in Orange. Singing, sax, flute: Carolyn; singing, other instruments: Chris.

	Wall of Death Posted Feb. 17 2010 From the Steps Hey Colorada ep, released fall 2008. Recorded 2005 – 2008, mostly in Seal Beach, CA. Drums: Scott; bass: Lance; singing: Carolyn; singing & guitars: Chris. Written by Richard Thompson. Original version found on Shoot Out the Lights, by Richard and Linda Thompson.

	Everywhere You Are Posted Feb. 7 2010 Previously unreleased. Written for BRG. Recorded on digital 8-track circa 2000 in Orange, CA. Drums: Scott; bass & singing: Jeff Nelson; flute & singing: Carolyn; guitars, banjo, & singing: Chris; barking: Dorcas.

	Kangaroo Posted Feb. 1 2010 Included on an unreleased Steps 2005 ep, To Our New Ocean Home. Recorded 2001 or 2002 in Orange, CA as one of three demos for the film Bug, dir. Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi. (“Come On,” included on Points & Corners, was used.) Drums: Scott (lifted from “Don’t Quit the Band”); singing: Carolyn; drum loop, guitar, bass, keyboards, singing: Chris.