Untitled California Project
Kendall Street Company
“Untitled California Project”
All tracks recorded in Louisa, VA at White Star Studios Dec 2-4, 2020 and February 21-25, 2021 less Crab Surprise and California #24 recorded in Nashville at () November 9th and 10th, 2021 and California #B at Jake’s old apartment February 17th, 2021.
All tracks engineered by Orion Faruque, less Crab Surprise and California #24 engineered by Joe Pisapia and California #B engineered by Jake Vanaman
Mixed by Scott Gordon, less California #B mixed by Jake Vanaman
Mastered by Gavin Lurssen
Additional Comping by Louis Smith and Jake Vanaman
California #1
Brian Roy: Bass
Ryan Wood: Lead vox, drums
Ben Laderberg: electric guitar
Jake Vanaman: saxophone
California #17
Louis Smith: Lead vox, Acoustic Guitar
Ben Laderberg: Lap Steel
California #X
Louis Smith: Lead Vox
Brian Roy: Bass, background vox
Ryan Wood: drums
Ben Laderberg: electric guitar
Jake Vanaman: saxophone
California #B
Louis Smith: Background vox
Brian Roy: Background vox
Ryan Wood: Beatbox
Ben Laderberg: Lead vox, guitar
Jake Vanaman: Background vox
Crab Surprise
Louis Smith: Lead Vox, rhythm electric guitar
Brian Roy: Bass, background vox
Ryan Wood: Drums
Ben Laderberg: Lead electric guitar, crab vocal effect
Jake Vanaman: Clavinet, Piano
California #24
Louis Smith: Rhythm Electric guitar, background vox
Brian Roy: Bass, background vox
Ryan Wood: Drums
Ben Laderberg: Lead Vox, lead electric guitar
Jake Vanaman: saxophone, synthesizer
California #690210
Louis Smith: background vox, acoustic guitar
Brian Roy: bass, background vox
Ryan Wood: drums
Ben Laderberg: Lead vox, electric guitar
Jake Vanaman: saxophone
Special thanks to Mark from Ohio for the inspiration, Robert Sawrey for lending Ben his lapsteel.
LYRICS:
California #1
Introducing, the Kendall Street Company Untitled California Project
Featuring your host Kendall Street Company
Musical guest Kendall Street Company
Starring:
Louis Smith on the guitar
Ben Laderberg on the guitar
Brian Roy on bass guitar
Jake Vanaman on the saxophone
Ryan Wood on the drums
Coming to you live from the east coast of the contiguous United States
Kendall Street Company’s Untitled California Project
California #17
Mark from Ohio walked across the country to California
California, let’s see what treasures we’ll find today
Mark from Ohio lost his way on his way to California
Chasing that sunset, oh we’ll see what treasures we’ll find today
California
California
California
Let’s see what treasures we’ll find today
California #X
Treasures of California
Treasures of California
Treasures of California
Treasures of California
Treasures of California (Where we going this time?)
Treasures of California (Hey look at that bird!)
Treasures of California (Don’t forget to recycle.)
Treasures of California (Now let’s check in with Mark)
California #B
Tell me where all the cool people go
Been told I’m livin much too slow
Out here in rural Ohio
I’m searching for job a with a view
Pay them bills and get a nice pair of shoes
Can't find that none of that in rural ohio
So I hit the road and I ain’t comin back
No more tractors and a dirty slacks
From now on it’s just me myself and California
There’s shiny objects and silver screens
Special EFX and Mr. Bean
Dr. Spock and Martin Sheen
Oh California
I haven’t made it yet but I know a guy who has
I asked him for his secret and he all he gave me was some sass
You don’t have what it takes, so go on back to Ohio
Well I says to him no I ain’t doing that
I drove 1000 miles in my Cadillac
Just give me a chance
Cast me in a, in a B Movie
Cast me in a B movie
Oh I want it so bad
I ain’t goin back to Ohio
Crab Surprise
I dreamed I was a great crustacean
Ruler of the seafood nation
A DJ on the sonar station
And then I woke up
To a crab surprise
To a crab surprise
Well I was scurrying along the murky surface
They caged me up and it made me nervous
In San Francisco I’ll find my purpose
Oh no, I never told my dad I loved him
You know I love him
Well they dropped me in the boiling pot
And then they steamed me up and they got me hot
And then they cracked me open I’m wild, I’m caught
Where were you?
For the crab surprise
For the crab surprise
Well they dipped me in the melted butter
And they served me up with chives and mustard
And then they threw my shells into the gutter
And now, I’m dead
I’m the crab surprise
I’m the carb surprise
I’m the crab surprise ahhh
The crab surprise ahhh
Crab surprise ahhh
I'm the crab surprise
California #24
Cruising down the 405
To Ventura boulevard
I spot a dusty hitchhiker
I offer him a ride
Trench Coat worn to smithereens
Teeth drenched in rot
Stalagtited smile
Constellationed dimple dots
We pass the time
Surfing skimming sifting the radio
I ask him well, where to now?
There’s only one place I’ll ever go
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
I put the pedal to the metal
Turn the knobs right to the max
Drive on thru the in-n-out
And I’ll Pick us up some snacks
Now Hollywood ain’t Bollywood
Warren Beattie ain’t Shah Rukh Khan
L.A.‘s had its glory days
It peaked with Goldie Hawn
Enough with the rigamarole
My rider chastised me
Nostalgias got you blinded
There’s only one place I’d rather be
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
California
Sometimes when I lie awake
At night I get so scared
I’ve dreamt I’ve left The Valley
And I’ve lost all my hair
I for one could care less
For the triviality
Too much superficialdom
My friend he disagrees
Praise be Los Angeles
It’s one big jamboree
We’re home to the Lakers
And that’s enough for me
California
California
California
California
Kobe Bryant
California
California
California
California
California
Kobe Bryant
California
California #690210
We’ll always have Los Angeles
We shared a twin bed and we made it our nest
Alas all good must come to pass
You went back east and I stayed west
You twisted my words and I twisted your tongue
You ripped out my heart and oh how it stung
We’ll always have Los Angeles
At least in the past
In the past…..
Los Angeles Los Angeles (in the past)
We’ll always have Los Angeles (in the past)
Los Angeles Los Angeles (in the past)
We’ll always have Los Angeles (in the past)
Los Angeles Los Angeles (in the past)
Los Angeles Los Angeles (in the past)
You and me had everything that weekend that we ever could have dreamed of.
Just us together, it was beautiful, it was magical, it was exciting
It was the best time… times.. Days of my life. I can’t even speak when I’m imagining it
And I imagine you in your Boston bungalow apartment looking out west into the sunset, knowing that I’m still out there. Still out there on the coast, and I hope you miss me the way I miss you. And I know you had to move on and I would never fault you for that. But, we had something so special, and I guess I’ll always have it in my memory. I just wish you’d come back to Los Angeles. Just once, come back, please! I miss you, and I know you miss me too.
Signed,
Peaches