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  • Book/Magazine + Digital Album

    16-page chapbook telling the stories of each Wishful Thinker in the Hall of Fame. QR-codes take you to mysterious corners of the internet. Illustrations by various Matchsellers friends and fans.

    You'll also get a physical CD and the digital album. If you come to either live CD Release Show, booklets will be discounted so plan on getting them there.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Wishful Thinkers' Hall of Fame via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

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I was born in the badlands in a nuclear waste pit
my pappy whipped me with a belt buckle and I learned to like it
you see gettin whipped and gettin kicked is how it's gotta go
might as well take the beating and enjoy the feeling low

now I left that waste pit when I was 17
I roamed around but the badlands never did quite leave me
now I've drank in most every bar and I fought every man named Jack
did a little too much whippin and kickin so I had to come on back

And now I guess I'll never more leave this place
that's the way it's gotta be
it's not that I don't like all the folks in other places
it's the folks in other places don't like me

now sweet Wanda Lou I can't believe I did find you
showin out at the barn dance til 2
well you came with johnny mullins but another heart was stolen
when you smiled at me and I smiled back at you

Well you knew that I was rotten wanted to stuff my mouth with cotton
even slapped me in the face that very night
but you followed this man out to the badlands
now you're trying to turn a left boy right

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from The Wishful Thinkers' Hall of Fame, released October 28, 2022

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Clever and fearless, The Matchsellers boldly go where Bluegrass has previously feared to tread. Hailing from the heartland of America, they infuse traditional roots music with a modern, irreverent, wild, art-house twist that could only come out of Kansas City. ... more

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