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Click the titles below to view lyrics and listen to each song from Burn the Bridge in it's entirety... |
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made up my mind adalae highway headlight blanket on the sun underground the ghost of thomas morgan burn the bridge everytime lonely road last supper for breakfast let me down easy the hidden track* |
| * The hidden track is a special feature available only on our website. The hidden track is a mystery, and as such is constantly changing. It may be an unreleased Twotrack song or early demo for the album, or it might be a song we just think you need to hear. Check back regularly for updates and surprises! |
| The Story Behind Burn the Bridge… |
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In the summer of 2004, Ryan and Todd lived far apart from each other, but that didn’t stop them from trading ideas for songs and making revolutionary musical plans. At the time, Todd was working as an EMT in the Navajo reservation town of Tuba, Arizona. They don’t see too many banjos on ‘the Res,’ but Todd found a way to practice in between grueling shifts and commuting back and forth from his home in Flagstaff. Meanwhile in Austin, Texas, Ryan had finally had enough of bartending and began gearing up for the return to music and a life of art and the inevitable poverty that accompanies it. It was in this setting that the concept for Burn the Bridge was born. |
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As the brothers talked and traded lyrics through the mail, an idea began to emerge. Drawing from lives of transience and multiple occupations, the songs the two wrote conveyed a need for independence, self reliance, and transcendent change. The concept of burning old bridges to make way for new paths was more than an idea, it was a way of life to the twins, and once again, they traded the old for the new. |
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Todd found his way to Austin that summer, and the two began to set up shop in Ryan’s house, literally constructing the studio themselves. Using the little money they’d saved, the brothers traded the working life for a life of ‘the real work,’ practicing endlessly and writing and arranging the songs that would become the new album. Over the next five months, the brothers tracked out the album while
playing sporadic live shows to test the new material. Slowly but surely
a sonic landscape emerged into a conceptual album, and Burn the Bridge
began to take shape. |
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Burn the Bridge, consisting of eleven songs co-written by Ryan and Todd Bayless, addresses the conflict between occupation and independence, as well as the themes surrounding the necessity of often difficult challenges and change that lead to new awareness and understanding. The album’s personas work through emotions of confusion, anger, and depression before ultimately finding a sense of self and hope in a modern American society that often sacrifices the very individualism and freedoms it proposes to revere. May you too fear not the burning of your own bridges to make way for
a new life and the real work waiting for you... |