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In one of my last sound gigs at Heartwood, I was mixing my friend Joe Crookston. As he did a splendid version of Paul Simon's America, I had an epiphany: we still haven't found the true promise of the founding fathers. We're still looking 50 years after hitchhiking from Saginaw.

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Still Looking for America (March 2020)

We came ashore at Plymouth Rock
And gave the neighbors quite a shock
Our destiny was manifest
We pointed wagons to the west

Concord, Yorktown, Lexington
Tradin’ slaves in Charleston
Three-fifths of a man in the census takin’
The trail of tears to the reservations

But I’m still, lookin’ still
For that beacon of light from the city on the hill
From the wall at the border all the way to Canada,
I’m still lookin’, I’m still lookin’, I’m still lookin’ for America

Once I rode the Greyhounds and rails like a Kerouac poem
If somehow that kid could be here now, I don’t think I’d know him
It’s been 50 years since I hitchhiked from Saginaw
And I’m still lookin’, I'm still lookin’, I’m still lookin’ for America

Woody said this land is ours
Sea to shining sea beneath the cell phone towers
From A1A to Route 66
You can feel the pulse of the heartland tick

And I’m still, lookin’ still
For that beacon of light from the city on the hill
From Shiloh to Selma, the battle lines are still drawn,
And I’m still lookin’, I’m still lookin’, I’m still lookin’ for America

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from Mixing Metaphors, track released March 1, 2022
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Bob McPeek Gainesville, Florida

The founder of Mirror Image Studios in Gainesville, Florida, Bob McPeek has produced, engineered, and/or played on at least 10,000 songs for artists as diverse as Bo Diddley, River Phoenix, and Less Than Jake.

Mixing Metaphors is his first solo album of original material, showcasing the considerable songwriting, performing, and producing skills applied for his own material at long last. ... more

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