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The second single to be released from Darkness Calling

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Wire Strainers
20/11/2019

I hit a lonely stretch, way up past Nhill
On that Silver City HWY on the dog run to Broken Hill,
Where I met an old battler who was doing it tough,
And in the back of his ute the oldest pair of wire strainers the world ever knew.
I went on my way but I could not shake the face
Of that bloke searching the wire strand by strand for the place
Where the cattle get through, his hands battered and bruised,
But surely he knew it was all in vain.

Because it never rains,
It never rains up here
And the dust hangs in clouds,
When the water trucks come around.
It never rains.

A few weeks later I was back up the way
And I knew I could do a little something that might ease the strain
The were shiny and new and I left them with a note on his verandah that read
“If ever you need a friend… and I hope it rains”

It never rains up here
And the dust hangs in clouds
When the water trucks come around
It never rains,
It never rains up here,
And the money’s run out
The government’s ignoring the drought.

Sometime’s I would call, and sometimes I’d write
Sometimes I’d send a little something just to help him get by.
Then those three nights, he didn’t answer the phone,
And I knew he lived alone- something didn’t sit right.
Then I got the word, beaten and broke,
He culled the whole herd and turned the gun on himself.
I wished that he felt that he could have called,
I’d give it all back just to hear his voice…

But it never rains, it never rains up here
It never rains.
It never rains, it never rains up here,
And the money’s run out
The government’s ignoring the drought.
It never rains, it never rains up here
And despair clouds the town where the coroner comes around
It never rains.

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released April 3, 2023
Dave Wright- Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
RJ Barber- Mandolin, Vocals
Tim Cavanagh- Upright bass, Vocals
Connor Ross Hicks- Fiddle, Vocals
Ben Franz- Pedal Steel
Bek Chapman- Backing Vocals

Recorded and mixed by Finn Keane at Headgap Studio, Preston 2022
Produced by Dave Wright
Mastered by Joe Carra at Crystal Mastering
Cover design by Dave Wright
Logo by Annie Walter

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Dave Wright & The Midnight Ramblers Melbourne, Australia

Formed in 2017, The Midnight Ramblers are Dave Wright's side project and delve deep into his vast catalogue to re- imagine some of his most popular songs into down home country and bluegrass stompers. Heavy on harmonies, with lashing of rolling banjo and soaring fiddle, Dave Wright & the Midnight Ramblers are a rollicking, boot stomping, good time 'ol country hoedown. New album Darkness Calling! ... more

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