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HENRY DEREK ELIS The Devil Is My Friend LP US 2018 (HDE) EX/MINT-
INFORMATION: Solo album from Act Of Defiance vocalist
Players: HDE - Vocals, Mandolin, Bass, Acoustic & Electric Guitars / Aubrey Richmond - Fiddle / Steve White - Drums lyrics The Devil Is My Friend
I met a girl named Cindy somewhere out on Highway 10 She looked lost and hung over, Ain’t no telling where she’d been She said she’d run away from home with a sadness in her eyes Sometimes in my restless sleep I still hear poor Cindy cry
I don’t need your Jesus, No I don’t need his help I don’t believe in heaven little darlin, but Hell exists right here I don’t need your prayers, I pray for a means to an end Cause the devil is my friend
I bought her a late breakfast, took her to a cheap hotel I robbed her of her innocence, she promised not to tell I held her down at knifepoint, buried the blade into her spleen The flashbacks, they still come and go, I still hear poor Cindy scream
The world will break your heart at least a thousand times And leave you with no answers to all the reasons why Battered, bruised and broken, Your peace will never come The truth is never spoken, until the damage has been done
I covered her nude body with the sheets upon the bed Her bloody kiss upon my lips, My lover now lay dead I guess I’ll never understand what came over me Perhaps I wanted more for her than a life of misery

Henry started creating acoustic based folk music under the moniker : To The Boy Elis, a reference from the Austrian born poet Georg Trakl. His love for roots & folk music eventually inspired him to take on a more sophisticated approach to the craft. Henry Derek Elis released his debut full length album, The Devil Is My Friend on October 26th.Tragic themes and a folk-tinged Southern Gothic Americana sound form the basis of The Devil Is My Friend, the haunting full-length solo debut by Henry Derek Elis, with contributions from Aubrey Richmond & John Schreffler Jr. (Shooter Jennings), Jarboe (Swans), Tara Vanflower (Lycia) Neal Tiemann (DevilDriver) Sera Timms (Black Mare) and more. In a marked stylistic departure from his persona as frontman for heavier rock acts, Henry has crafted a poetic and deeply personal solo debut, steeped in memories of his childhood in Milledgeville, GA, the same place Blind Willie McTell and Flannery O'Connor made their death beds; "the kind of small town with a haunted past that can swallow you up whole if you let it," says Henry. Dynamic rock arrangements reflect Henry's encyclopedic knowledge of dark folk, classic country, traditional blues and classical music, resulting in an atmospheric, apocalyptic landscape, where lonely sonic highways are littered with the detritus of misfortune and the soft glimmering of something that might be hope. - Caroline Ryder (Los Angeles)

CONDITION: EX/EX+ conditions. Sleeve has minor storage wear
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