Sucker, by Harlan T. Bobo

Sucker

by Harlan T. Bobo

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1.	Sweet Life 02:34	buy track
2.	Hamster In A Cage 01:42	buy track
3.	Oh Boy 02:43	buy track
4.	Crazy With Loneliness 02:29	buy track
5.	Old Man 01:50	buy track
6.	Selfish Life 02:07	buy track
7.	Perfect Day 02:29	buy track
8.	Bad Boyfriends 01:48	buy track
9.	Energy 02:50	buy track
10.	Errand Girl 01:46	buy track
11.	Drank 05:31	buy track
12.	Mlle. Chatte 01:24	buy track

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"I've been duped by my biology," 43-year old Harlan T. Bobo says of Sucker, his third album for Goner Records. If Too Much Love, Bobo's solo debut, chronicled the dissolution of a soul-wrenching relationship, and his second album, I'm Your Man, captured the fits, starts and relapse of post-breakup emotions, Sucker narrates the life of a man who is, in his own words, "settling down."

Despite the new album's tongue-in-cheek title, the dark confessional style that pervades I'm Your Man is largely replaced with a lighter attitude. Anguish gives way to an almost upbeat angst, and the gloom-and-doom allure of temporary romances is overcome by true love. On "Sweet Life," the opening track, the typically enigmatic Bobo unabashedly reminisces about traveling with--and wooing--Anne Ciriani, who would ultimately become his wife and the mother of his son, Nino. "The first time she broke my nose with a rum bottle, I knew it was love," Bobo says.

The break-neck "Crazy with Loneliness" and the humorously meditative "Selfish Life" document his mental shift, while "Energy," "Drank," and "Mlle. Chat" record the physical adjustments he's made as the husband of a Frenchwoman who owns her own ice cream shop in Argeles, which Bobo describes as "the white trash camping spot of Europe." Occasionally, Bobo veers away from the fairytale to serve up alternate storylines, such as the frantic, Jerry Lee Lewis-meets-Television "Errand Girl," or "Hamster in a Cage," a sordid, yet beautifully written song about his short-lived Hollywood hustle.

"Having a wife and a child doesn't mean I'm finished," he says. "If anything else, I'm more desperate to make music. The songs I'm writing now are a little more charged than they were a couple of years ago, when I had nothing to do but play music."

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released April 13, 2010

Songs mostly written while courting an adventurous woman. France, Spain, Madagascar, New York, Memphis, Netherlands. The courtship was a success.

Recorded mostly by Doug Easley, some recorded at home.

Guitar, Vocals, Written-By – Harlan T Bobo
Backing Vocals ["sha-la-las"] – Bennett Foster
Backing Vocals [Desperate "Oh boys"] – Shawn Cripps
Bass, Vocals – Jeremy Scott
Drums – Paul Buchignani
Guitar – John Paul Keith
Organ, Piano, Vocals – Adam Woodard
Vocals, Percussion – Tm. Prudhomme

Producer – Doug, Harlan, Tm.
Recorded By [Mostly], Mixed By, Mastered By – Doug Easley
Mastered By – Jason Ward
Artwork – Jay Crum, Kong Wee Pang

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Harlan T. Bobo Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyréné, France

Too enigmatic, too laconic, and too careless about the music biz to gain fame outside of his adopted homes in Tennessee and France, Harlan T Bobo is a rare bird – a soulful, comedic, yet vicious and wholly underrated singer-songwriter, a divorced single father who seems happiest when he’s most dissolute. ... more

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