The Rusty Nails - Broken Teeth and Limestone

Текст с Bandcamp’а: “Where did the title for the instrumental song “Broken Teeth & Limestone” come from? John Steinbeck’s East of Eden: “Thou mayest, Thou mayest!” What glory! It is true that we are weak and sick and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth. A few remnants of fossilized jawbone, some broken teeth in strata of limestone, would be the only mark man would have left of his existence in the world. This song was really a sort of part 2 to the song “Gone” or perhaps an aftermath to “Gone”. Gone is certainly a very angry song which may represent a kind of justifiable violence but nonetheless results in the same sad and destructive ends. War is never EVER the answer but if we continue this downward spiral of perpetual war, we will have NOTHING to show for ourselves but “broken teeth and limestone” or as Steinbeck wrote “broken teeth IN STRATA OF limestone.” from History In The Rust (the best of The Rusty Nails), released September 18, 2016 Brett Alexander Boye - Bagpipes, Acoustic Guitar Kevin Cooper - Bass Paul Chell - Twelve String Guitar, Slide Guitar Jason Stuart - Drums John Kemppainen - 5 String Violin Recorded at Duck Kee Studios by Jerry Kee in Mebane, NC sometime between November of 1998 and June of 1999. Mastered at West West Side Music by Alan Douches“