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Forever Came Today

from Roscoe's Gang by Eric Ambel

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"Forever Came Today" was a song that Scott Kempner and I wrote in Austin, Texas while the Del-Lords were on the road. I had just bought one of those '80s Takamine acoustic guitars, which was one of the first cheap acoustic guitars that you could plug into a P.A. and have it sound good. I got that guitar and a capo and started playing that lick, and Scott was like "Hey, can I finish that song?" The Del-Lords had demoed it, but when it didn't make it to our next record, it had to be on mine. The words came from Scott but I felt really close to them, as I did with a lot of Scott's lyrics. In the Del-Lords, we were really living our lives together; Scott and I were roommates on the road, and all four of us were living through a lot of things as a team. It's a cool song and I still play it; I've changed it around and done it a few different ways. It was great to have Straw involved on it, and have the boy/girl vocal thing going on. Years later, when I produced a band called the Backsliders, I didn't know that they'd been playing "Forever Came Today" for awhile, and we ended up recording it for their Southern Lines CD.

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from Roscoe's Gang, released June 7, 1988

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Eric Ambel Brooklyn, New York

Guitar player, producer, songwriter Eric Ambel has been releasing musical nuggets during the Pandemic as the "Shut In Singles Series". His last studio record was "Lakeside". Please check out his recorded works here.

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