MF21 - Bedlam Necklace | Mark C. Morris

MF21 - Bedlam Necklace

by Mark C. Morris

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Full proceeds go to suicide prevention charity in Iowa as per Mark's wishes. Download includes bonus scan of original lyric sheet to "This Town Is For Losers."

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1.	Well Hung 02:15		buy track
2.	The Saddest Song 04:40		buy track
3.	Quits 03:03		buy track
4.	This Town Is For Losers (& It's Where I Belong) 04:28		buy track
5.	Songs For Girls 03:04		buy track
6.	Charlotte 02:32		buy track
7.	Spiky Haired Joe 02:14	info	buy track
8.	Voice 03:03		buy track
9.	Why This? 04:11		buy track
10.	I Love You 00:14		buy track
11.	Bedlam Necklace 30:13		buy track

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All proceeds of this release will be donated to NAMI Iowa to support Mental Health Education, Advocacy, and Support. This is Mark C. Morris Archive release #8 in the ongoing project to issue the entire Mark C. Morris and Henry C. Cobb Jr. archive.

At precisely 12:36PM, on November 15, in 1997, Mark Morris wrote a letter to me in black ink pen on wide ruled notebook paper. He wrote: “I put my pants on backwards this morning and started thinking about the past.” Just a few months prior to this, he had sent me a package containing two copies of his new cassette release, one for me and one for Doug (see The Laces), with a letter of explanation. He wrote:

“Here is my new tape…. It was going to be a completely dark, suicidal tape but my mood kept improving and so a lot of goofy stuff got on here too.”

Years later, he explained that he really was “pushing the boundaries of sanity during that period.” Though this recording was not the end of Mark’s audio story, thankfully nor of his time on earth, Bedlam Necklace is indeed the final solo album that he recorded during this period of an “absurd, godless, and holy” approach to working out his usual topics of love, obsession, death, and impermanence.

~ Mike Hoff, Evanston, September, 2021

Learning about suicide prevention is a great way to educate yourself and others. If you or someone you know needs emergency assistance, contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.

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released September 3, 2021

Recorded by Mark C. Morris to Yamaha MT2X in Ottumwa, IA in basement apt. #6. Written and recorded March 12th to April 7th, 1997.
Tracks 1 through 10 re-mixed from the source 4-track tape and mastered by Greg Peterson in LIC, NY in 2021. Track 11, which spanned the entire side two of the original cassette release, is remastered from Mark's original cassette mix.

Dedication from the original cassette J-Card:
"for my niece Angie, who i love
& for my friend Charlotte, who i love also."

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