Amherst b/w Give Me Back My Man, by Northeast Regional

Amherst b/w Give Me Back My Man

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	1.	Amherst 03:02		buy track
	2.	Give Me Back My Man (The B-52s cover) 04:00		buy track

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SECOND SINGLE from the 17-track vinyl album from Northeast Regional. B-side is a homegrown DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE cover of The B-52s' "Give Me Back My Man" from the album Wild Planet.

"Brand Managers of the Mid-Atlantic" will be released January 27, 2023 on Magnet Coil Media and Tor Johnson Records. Limited to 100 copies.

Amherst was the last song written for the album. It drew on the slower songs that focused on one riff but upped the tempo and added more layers with the inclusion of more musicians. One riff became three and little did I know I laid the foundation for the longest pick slide that 2023 may possibly hear. This song is about being bit by a bat.

As far as the cover goes, I once saw The B-52s play a show at an after-conference party in Atlanta (where it snowed in March). They may have played this song but I don't really remember. They did play Rock Lobster and wore shiny shirts while middle-aged health care executives danced. It was fine for the moment.

It wasn't until ten years later I found myself at an amateur wrestling event in California where a cover band played this song in between matches when Give Me Back My Man really connected with me. Maybe it was the environment or because it was I who was now middle aged. Hard to say but it's a great song. If my cursory Google search is correct, the song is about a woman pleading with a shark not to eat her boyfriend.

So, I guess, thematically, this single is about being bitten (or worse, eaten) by animals. There is a crab on the cover of the album but it won't bite.

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released January 23, 2023

Amherst:
J.Byers-guitar/vocals
M.Morris-guitar
T.Worley-bass
Z.Nelson-drums
J. Doubek - guitar

Recorded by Allen Bergendahl at Viking Recording Studios in Richmond, VA. February 2022

Give Me Back My Man:
J.Byers-guitars, bass, vocals, drum programming

Recorded by Jeff at home. Fall 2022.

This single was mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.

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Northeast Regional Richmond, Virginia

As with many defense contracts and journalism careers, Northeast Regional began in the northwest quadrant of Washington, DC and ended in a satellite city.

Power pop, post-hardcore, feedback, catchy choruses & meditative dirges.

FFO Militarie Gun, Timeshares, Fiddlehead, & Superchunk, guitar-rock ... more

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