Annie Gallup
Swerve
(Prime CD)

"An interview sequence of love songs, not optimistic, but filled with
deft metaphors and riveting images." -New York Times

Swerve is the fifth CD from the incomparable Annie Gallup, never in
better form. Merciless takes on what romantic love turns into, and
away from, are tempered by Gallup's dazzling lyricism, crisp guitar
figures and the comic word-jazz of "Three Bills."
with Danny McDermott, drums; Michael Visceglia, bass; Rob Curto,
hammond, accordian; Billy Masters, electric guitar; Gideon Freudmann,
cello; Rob Paparosi, harmonica. Recorded by David Seitz.

1. Money
2. True
3. What I Know
4. Great Distance
5. One Two
6. My Mother's Daughter
7. Three Bills
8. Georgia O'Keefe
9. Red Hair
10. Absecon Bay
11. The Sky
12. The End

Georgia O'Keeffe

The woman in this photograph is Georgia O'Keeffe
In nineteen-nineteen
The man behind the camera was in love
Light through the lace
Arc of her waist
As she reaches past the edges of the picture's frame

Georgia O'Keeffe could only guess about the future
Georgia O'Keeffe could only guess about the future

I remember waking with your hand on my heart
The arc of our curl
The same breath in the dark until the birds
Sing you awake
Then turning away
And moving toward the morning past the edge of the frame

Georgia O'Keeffe could only guess about the future
Georgia O'Keeffe could only guess about the future
Hum of the road, hands on the wheel,
Love and the search for love
And tall grass in the fields

Tonight I walked into the sunset
Wild blazing sky
Then walked on by
Until color shaded into black and white
I told you I'd write
But how could I say
The sky goes on forever

Georgia O'Keeffe could only guess about the future
Georgia O'Keeffe could only guess about the future

©2000 Annie Gallup