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After doing a spate of duo gigs with Lynn Drury in the summer 2018, I took her up on her offer to co-write in September of that year. She had been commissioned to write a couple of songs for (per)sister, which was a collaboration between formerly incarcerated women and female artists. She had the title, My Life Bars, but nothing to go with it, so we brainstormed ideas about bars and life behind bars and played with the idea of being stuck in the nightlife. Over the course of the next week, I put it all together and brought the song back to her for editing a week later. She was a little upset that I’d taken her title but she liked the song and she came up with two other great songs for (Per)sister.

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My life in bars, with jukebox changes,
No more drinking straws, no more dusty stages, Just my thoughts on you, and one more whiskey, mopping up around me and I got no place to go,
The world outside, can pass me by now,
The life I know is on the other side,
The lights come on, a slow song’s playin’ Napkin with your number, rock glass on the bar,
All that i can offer you is the promise of tomorrow, The problems I’ve been fleein’ won’t be far behind I know I should walk away, baby it ain’t my style Mistake myself for loneliness sometimes
My life in bars, with juke box changes,
Napkin with your number, please pick up your phone

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from Down Below, released May 23, 2021
Produced by Ted Hefko & Justin Carlo Davi
Recorded August - September 2020 at Music Shed Studios, and Below Studio by Mike Dorsey and Ben Lorio
Edited by Ted Hefko and Justin Davi
Mixed by Keenan McRae Artisound Production
Mastered by Gene Paul at G&J Audio

Musicians
Ted Hefko (Lead Vocals, Guitar)
Matt Galloway (Lead Guitar)
Justin Carlo Davi (Bass)
Chris Davis (Drums & Percussion)
Lynn Drury (Backup Vocals)

My Life in Bars (Ted Hefko Thefko Music ASCAP/Lynn Drury Old Shoes Music BMI)

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Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires New Orleans, Louisiana

Ted Hefko & The Thousandaires stir up an intoxicating brew of the profound and the profane, of virtue and vice and most importantly the volatile in-between. Ted’s songs explore hope and hustlers, saints and strays, drifters and the down-and-out. The band brings these stories to life with the spontaneity of jazz, and the rough-hewn, bare-bones tone of backwoods rhythm and bllues. ... more

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