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3 years

News: we’ve been writing sporadically since 2014 - writing steadily since March of this year. Handful of songs done and ready to record. V excited to share with you in whatever format they take. Thanks for your encouragement always

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roman candle

@romancandleband

5 years

@rachsyme And brought him cookies

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10 years

Hug the kids everybody . Hug the adults too

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@romancandleband

5 years

Trying to explain to my first born, D Trump’s previous failed business endeavors (vodka, casinos, etc) . He says “Oh I get it. He’s like Tom Haverford.”

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@romancandleband

7 years

Wonderful chat between T Petty and the wonderful @WhisperingBob from 1977. Worth a few min of your time.

BBC Archive

@BBCArchive

7 years

"Rock n Roll is pretty universal." Tom Petty speaking to Bob Harris at The Whisky, Los Angeles in 1977

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@romancandleband

5 years

@TylerWS @rachsyme No judgement here. It's just context that always got left out. (love it that it inspired caps lock!)

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@romancandleband

5 years

Standing in my kitchen cooking dinner for kids and absolutely bawling . Love you forever Jonn

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@romancandleband

7 years

Don't want to imagine a world w/o Tom Petty sitting somewhere in a house w no AC doing whatever he does. Being from a small town in

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@romancandleband

4 years

Hi - I don’t show up here often so I feel obliged to say a few things ... Black lives matter, trans lives matter, abortion is a fraction of what it means to vote pro life. Let’s please vote this mother out of office. Register, vote, post photos of your stickers. Love you all

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@romancandleband

9 years

After 7 years of drinks with chats, Timshel & I are thrilled to say our first podcast launches tmrw @pastemagazine .

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@romancandleband

4 years

I am so grateful to be able to share this. @thadcockrell has been *in our corner* as a band ever since we met at @ChrisStamey 's almost 20 years ago. Seeing @jimmyfallon and the Tonight Show go out of their way to be *in his corner* -- beyond beyond beyond

Thad Cockrell

@thadcockrell

4 years

Last night’s performance of “Swingin'" with @theroots ! Thank you @jimmyfallon , @fallontonight , The Roots and ALL who joined in across the world!

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@romancandleband

7 years

I think of the fact that W Blake is buried in an unmarked, pauper's grave (no one knows where) about once a month

The New York Review of Books

@nybooks

7 years

Born on this day, 260 years ago: William Blake. At his death he was almost completely forgotten. He had sold less than thirty copies of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. An obituary called him “an unfortunate lunatic.”

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@romancandleband

10 years

Feel like there should be a sign on the door of certain restaurants / coffee shops that says "may be playing smashmouth before 8am"

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@romancandleband

4 years

Grateful for Chatanooga chief of police response here

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@romancandleband

4 years

Happy 40th birthday to the greatest drummer, engineer, dad, husband, brother, friend, uncle we all know and love @loganmatheny . Wish him a fine birthday in quarantine, friends & look at to see what kind of dope projects he's been working on

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@romancandleband

4 years

Just too much to RT from @JimGaffigan tonight. Go read the whole bit. To repeat @DavidDark - the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God

Jim Gaffigan

@JimGaffigan

4 years

Look Trumpers I get it. As a kid I was a cubs fan and I know you stick by your team no matter what but he's a traitor and a con man who doesn't care about you. Deep down you know it. I'm sure you enjoy pissing people off but you know Trump is a liar and a criminal.

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8 years

This was our weekend. I would write about it but can't improve on what Timshel said.

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@romancandleband

7 years

He's moved on. First show @loganmatheny and I ever saw was the wildflowers tour w Jayhawks opening in Raleigh

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@romancandleband

11 years

Just started work on a new Roman Candle record

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@romancandleband

4 years

Not sure who needs to see this photo (I did ). They are singing Memhis, Tennessee.

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@romancandleband

2 years

In this photo is the (wonderul) first person who ever signed Roman Candle to a record deal with his record company Outlook Music. He’s wearing an absolute ancient Roman Candle tshirt. Literally the first ones we ever printed

Trevor Pryce

@Trevor_Pryce

2 years

@romancandleband - Dig my t-shirt

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@romancandleband

3 years

RIP Norm. SO many great clips to share but here is a meeting he had with Bob Dylan and tweeted about & deleted. Bc one of the tweets is missing from the thread on wayback machine, I made a jpg of it (in case another disappears) - Worth the zooming to read

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roman candle

@romancandleband

10 years

thanks to @timshelmatheny for giving birth to this little man yesterday at home. Welcome Cosmas Matheny !! http://t.co/bwyGNRrZbR

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@romancandleband

4 years

I didn’t realize how many emotions I’d buried I’ve the last 4 years until today

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@romancandleband

6 years

As I get older one thing I never tire of is people who take the effort to put up Christmas lights I their yard

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@romancandleband

10 years

We recorded John Lennon's Beautiful Boy for a 6 yr old buddy of ours in PA who has Cerebral Palsy. Help him out?

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@romancandleband

8 years

After you listen to that podcast w @greg_thornbury listen to the one with @DavidDark . both wonderful :

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@romancandleband

5 years

Congratulations to @loganmatheny (!!) for engineering the grammy-nominated Christmas record "Something's Happening!" for @cecewinans .

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@romancandleband

3 years

We have 5 kids. I work from home (upstairs) and our main record player is in the kitchen (downstairs). I've had many parenting fails in the last 16 years (including this a.m), but hearing one of our kids put on a @SupergrassHQ record downstairs after lunch feels like a deep win.

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@romancandleband

7 years

Oh friends, listen to the great @greg_thornbury chat about his new Larry Norman book and then go buy and read the thing. Thornbury is easily one of our favorite living thinkers. Don't miss anything he does.

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@romancandleband

3 years

The company that bought this record from V2 years ago is called @entonegroup . I would love it if they did as well. We now own the masters however to Says Pop and will be releasing it on vinyl next year and will get it on streaming services shortly.

Jai

@TheRealJaiKumar

3 years

Still holding out hope . @romancandleband will put Wee Hours Review on Spotify one day.

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@romancandleband

5 years

God bless you all wherever you are reading this, this Saturday afternoon / evening. If you need anything (encouragement, some video message for anybody struggling) put me to work . I will be glad to do whatever I can. Grateful for everybody and wish you sanity and fresh air etc.

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@romancandleband

7 years

Have no idea how absolutely good he is. How good his art is. I will cherish the opportunity to introduce him to my kids & mourn that

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@romancandleband

4 years

"...We love you. you are very special..." Impeach and remove @realDonaldTrump

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@romancandleband

10 years

love all the candle companies that follow this account . keep it up !!! #candles

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@romancandleband

10 years

4 yrs ago tonight @timshelmatheny finished playing an rc show at the basement at 1am & went in to have our 3rd baby at 7am. I still say wow.

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@romancandleband

4 years

Can you think of a potential Epitaph for yourself ? Today mine would be - “born 1978. Had unrealistic expectations for airport food”

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@romancandleband

4 years

So grateful right now that the New Radicals are hustling somewhere in an SIR practice space

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@romancandleband

7 years

Ready for general public reappraisal of @thadcockrell 's warmth and beauty record - released 14 yrs ago. Music journos- please engage here

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@romancandleband

9 years

Our whole discography is on sale between now and Christmas for $20 :

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@romancandleband

11 years

Beyond thrilled to say that John Oates is at Logan's house currently (i.e. @biglightstudio ) recording a session for @daytrotter .

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@romancandleband

11 years

white dudes singing the notes of a guitar solo, together.

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@romancandleband

4 years

Let these keep arriving plz

Thad Cockrell

@thadcockrell

4 years

I thought it was already crazy. Now this?! And “ #IfInCaseYouFeelTheSame ” is in the overall top 40 albums on @iTunes ! It’s been inspiring to me & many others to read so many of your stories. We’re all in it together. Thank you! See ya on @TODAYshow for convo TOMORROW Jan 28!

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@romancandleband

3 years

This record: mixed by our every own @loganmatheny (He also mixed Chuck B's last studio record)

RS Country

@RScountry

3 years

Chuck Berry's new live album 'Live From Blueberry Hill' is slated for a December 17th release. Today marks what would have been his 95th birthday

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@romancandleband

8 years

RIP indeed . Al Jarreau was my first concert in Charlotte w Logan and my folks. I was 11 and Logan was 9

maura 💥 johnston

@maura

8 years

RIP

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@romancandleband

8 years

Just finished a wondrous drinks with Tegan and Sara. Podcast coming soon. They are at Cannery tonight, Nashville #teganandsara

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@romancandleband

7 years

Made profound things w three chords or so and some strident forward lyrics . As many people as love him to death there are a thousand who

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@romancandleband

4 years

Co-sign all day long

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@romancandleband

9 years

Holy cow team. I've been married to Timshel for Seventeen years today. Finally an named anniversary after my fav magazine. Love you all.

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7 years

Western NC with nobody I knew who wrote songs - Tom Petty was he first writer I found that had carved some path I find connect with. Who

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5 years

“It’s a hostage situation.” The wonderful @greg_thornbury in this article on @CTmagazine :

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4 years

Full support William

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@romancandleband

10 years

it's not yet 7 am and I have listened to TLC's No Scrubs 18 times today

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9 years

Probably one of my favorite all time bits of rc merch, found in a drawer this am by one of our kids

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12 years

My heart goes out to anyone who's having a bad valentine's day and standing in this Kroger with me while 'black velvet' is blasting overhead

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@romancandleband

5 years

Hello all ! This is not new music from us. Not sure who this is but it’s mis labeled . We do have new music on the way but this is not it.

Jarvis

@stuckonstarting

5 years

@romancandleband Is this you guys or did Spotify mislabel something?

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@romancandleband

4 years

This has been so wondrous to see. I was raised in Wilkes county NC (home to one of the original nascar tracks) and used to sell pretzels at the track every race day. The fact that this org and community can lead in this way reminds me how much more (myself inc.) can do

NASCAR

@NASCAR

4 years

We are one family. One NASCAR.

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@romancandleband

5 years

"And as Jesus himself pointed out, money tends to shut down moral inquiry:" A v comprehensive article with some incredible nugz from the always excellent @greg_thornbury :

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@romancandleband

9 years

One of my favorite photos of my dad, who directed a high school marching band for 20 years

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@romancandleband

9 years

First official @TheDrinksWith podcast with Tame Impala is up at @PasteMagazine

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@romancandleband

4 years

in my top 5 of all time. Ray Davies here talks about mixing a record as painting, "...I'd finally cracked it." (Also plz note Ray in a UNC baseball cap in the beginning which I may get this year as a back tattoo) cc @loganmatheny @bryancates22

Waterloo Sunset - Bowie, Geldof, Weller etc on Ray Davies' British...

Musical mavens Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Paul Weller, Sir Bob Geldof, and Clive Davis all comment on the songwriting mastery displayed by Ray Davies in hi...

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@romancandleband

3 years

Always love Anne L - but “dainty bullshit” is a weekend highlight altogether

ANNE LAMOTT

@ANNELAMOTT

3 years

Ah, prayer....Make me a channel of Thy peace, that where there is hatred, let me sow love, or at least not fertilize the hate with my dainty bullshit.

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@romancandleband

10 years

Thanks for the follow @TheYankeeCandle , You won't regret it.

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@romancandleband

3 years

@RealSwellMusic Yes we are :)

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11 years

Favorite thing about airport security is standing in my socks with 100 strangers like we're at a giant sleepover

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7 years

sitting at a computer in tears listening to the cranberries

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6 years

Aretha / crystal jukebox queen of hymn and him (...) Rest in peace and thank you for making so much of our time easier with all of that beauty

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@romancandleband

4 years

Behold this gift from God and Seth and Bryan

Floating Action

@floatingaction

4 years

me & bryan cates’ band in 2003.. so good! no one gave a shit about it then haha.

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@romancandleband

6 years

Oh don't do anything else tonight but click below and watch a clip of a @bryancates22 song coming out Friday. I will mail you $10 if you don't think, 'I have to hear the rest of that song.'

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@romancandleband

8 years

Drinks With podcast episode 4 with Dolly Parton published @PasteMagazine !

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@romancandleband

11 years

White socks rolled down. Who else in the history of mankind could have pulled this off ? http://t.co/oALuc32NeZ http://t.co/4jyfL7ibpV

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@romancandleband

4 years

Do you ever get a song stuck in your head that you actually enjoy ? For me it’s the Sanford and Son theme

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@romancandleband

8 years

Love the great people cooking up playlists at Lowes Foods

Chris Breslin

@revbrez

8 years

Just heard @romancandleband 's "They Say" in the candy aisle of a Wilmington Lowes Foods. Best. Night. Ever.

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@romancandleband

10 years

Apart from some family members, Dean Smith was pretty much my first hero. Rest in peace coach. http://t.co/5w2psQWdrd

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@romancandleband

11 years

@greg_thornbury This livestream image was in my inbox today. Not too subtle Peter Guralnick Elvis books present !! http://t.co/pADe0l9HtJ

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@romancandleband

4 years

Grateful Dan Rather is on twitter

Dan Rather

@DanRather

4 years

A rule of thumb: If you're lying about nonexistent voter fraud, if you're limiting polling places, if you're forcing people to line up to vote in a pandemic, even the old and the infirm, then it seems you're basically admitting most Americans don't want you to be president.

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@romancandleband

8 years

So proud of @loganmatheny for mixing this final Chuck Berry Record (in our studio!) Thx to Jeremy Lutito & Dualtone!

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@romancandleband

7 years

@maryannehobbs wondrous Mary Anne ! Driving from a late in the studio in nashville. Never miss a show of yours . Please give a shout to my

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@romancandleband

12 years

auto correct turns our band name from roman candle to 'romance angle' just wanted to send that out to anyone looking for a band name.

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@romancandleband

11 years

Also don't go forgetting we are playing sunday night with with Wild Cub at @3rdandlindsley . It will be live on @Lightning100 team !

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@romancandleband

10 years

Well I suppose we can call today a grand success.... http://t.co/FcSXFiZ2kI

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@romancandleband

6 years

Anyone within a 90 minute drive of Nashville - Go to this show to see @bryancates22 show.

bryan cates

@bryancates22

6 years

tonight @TheEastRoom ! 9pm. hope to see you there.

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@romancandleband

11 years

Wanted to share that we will playing the @PasteMagazine party at SXSW this year. THURSDAY ! http://t.co/DJ7QjXHI4l

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@romancandleband

3 years

grateful for this thanks Brent

J. Brent Stewart

@BrentIsAngry

4 years

Also, the entire @romancandleband catalog is stellar, but #ohtalltreeintheear is one of those essential “soundtrack to your life” albums for us as a couple. Perfect album. Eden was a garden, ya know?

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@romancandleband

9 years

Could not love @IvanRosebud more. Read this post about Prince coming to a Gayngs show:

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@romancandleband

8 years

about an hour left in @loganmatheny 's birthday. Can't think of a better brother / friend / drummer / engineer / uncle... long list actually.

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@romancandleband

9 years

Sitting in the lantern in chapel hill reading Kay Ryan poems w Timshel. And crying at the table like a kid. Don't forget poetry team

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@romancandleband

5 years

Nasvhille (and anyone who can get here with an hour's drive): Do not miss @bryancates22 tonight

bryan cates

@bryancates22

5 years

this is happening tonight

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@romancandleband

3 years

Much thanks to the great Greg Thornbury for ongoing encouragement towards making new music

Gregory Thornbury

@greg_thornbury

3 years

REJOICE

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@romancandleband

10 years

beyond thrilled to say that drinks with Dolly Parton published this a.m. on American Songwriter ---> http://t.co/3oe2MHXFeT

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@romancandleband

13 years

Whitney Houston's isolated vocal track on "How Will I Know." http://t.co/AUFTCBYh

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@romancandleband

11 years

the crackers called "stoned wheat thins" always make me laugh

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@romancandleband

7 years

Have done the same with almost identical words

Evan DeSimone

@Smorgasboredom

7 years

"Be quiet. This is Whitney Houston. It's very important" - A Mom in this grocery store silencing her child so she can listen to "How Will I Know."

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11 years

"She talks to angels" came on ...

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11 years

Prayer for my kids: may the road rise to meet you etc . And may you hear the replacements in an unexpected setting and know the wonder !!

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@romancandleband

12 years

Sometimes the only thing that can describe your spiritual walk is the worst saxophone solo you've ever heard

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@romancandleband

11 years

Listening to vinyl test pressings of debris. Happy Friday team. I've honestly never been more proud of a record

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@romancandleband

6 years

Matt Designed all our merch for the Oh Tall Tree in the ear record. Great design is as hard to find and a great bass player. We’re fortunate enough to have experienced both

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roman candle

@romancandleband

8 years

this is fantastic from the wondrous @greg_thornbury . Grateful to @CultivatedPod for picking 'Eden was a garden' as their theme song !

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roman candle

@romancandleband

6 years

I am always grateful to be able to say I work for this great organization. I am also now grateful to say they are releasing a podcast. Thrilled they are using some of our music as well. If you listen to podcasts do go and subscribe to this

Preemptive Love

@preemptivelove

6 years

Our world runs on fear. But it doesn’t have to. “Love Anyway” is an immersive storytelling podcast pushing beyond fear, beyond the simple narrative of “us vs. them.” Travel with us as we explore how people are choosing to Love Anyway.

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