Songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist, Jason McNiff releases his 7th full length album, Dust Of Yesterday, on April 16th, 2021. Produced and engineered by Roger Askew (Joe Strummer, Wilko Johnson, Christy Moore) the album was recorded throughout the summer and autumn of 2020 in Roger's home studio in Eastbourne, UK. It features McNiff's signature acoustic guitar work throughout with significant contributions from Beth Porter (of Eliza Carthy's band) on cello and Basia Bartz (Dana Immanuel, Rob Corcoran) on violin.
Songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist, Jason McNiff releases his 7th full length album, Dust Of Yesterday, on April 16th, 2021. Produced and engineered by Roger Askew (Joe Strummer, Wilko Johnson, Christy Moore) the album was recorded throughout the summer and autumn of 2020 in Roger's home studio in Eastbourne, UK. It features McNiff's signature acoustic guitar work throughout with significant contributions from Beth Porter (of Eliza Carthy's band) on cello and Basia Bartz (Dana Immanuel, Rob Corcoran) on violin.
Amanda
Amanda took a plane across the sea plane landed in Italy
beautiful little hilltop town prettiest when the sun went down
a girl like that is going to fall in love, was a boy from the south who'd travelled up
showed her all around the beautiful city, he never knew how sweet life could be
Amanda, you were innocent then
you're not so innocent now
early on one November morning come back to the house and the door was open
you unsuspecting you walked in, who could have imagined?
that Meredith was killed the night before and was lying dead behind a locked door
the police rocked up after lunch, suspected you on a hunch
they took you into custody, forced you to see what you didn't see
police chief with a reputation to mend he wasn't going to fail again
Amanda, you were innocent then
you're not so innocent now
throw a bit of sex in with the blood and the gore and the media couldn't love it more
how did they get hold of your diary? they've got sources they won't reveal
wind up, lie and exaggerate, never mind it's somebody's fate
like wolves they circle around the city, wouldn't have bothered if you hadn't been pretty
Amanda, you were innocent then
you're not so innocent now
now the Italians can't make up their minds, one loses and the other finds
they all say that you acted tense, but that's just not evidence
and after four years the court agrees and you take a plane out of Italy
back to Seattle from whence you came, but can life ever be the same?
I'm sorry for the family of the girl who died, they are the ones who've suffered and cried
but we should all feel a sense of shame, reading such stories without using our brains
Amanda, you were innocent then
you're not so innocent now