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The Heart is the Hunter
Release Date – August 21, 2015
Track List
- The Ghost in You — 3:50
- Ain’t Nothing Sissy About Love — 3:13
- Mercy Street — 4:42
- The Heart Is the Hunter — 4:20
- Louisiana 1927 — 3:24
- Low Lying — 6:16
- Wayfaring Stranger — 4:24
- Tomorrow Is a Long Time — 2:55
- In My Secret Life — 4:30
- Everywhere I Go — 4:33
- Over the Rainbow — 3:31
Credits
The Ghost in You
Richard Butler and Timothy Butler
EMI Blackwood Music Inc. Obo EMI Music Publishing, Ltd.
Ain’t Nothing Sissy About Love
Steve Klingaman And Lenne Klingaman, Humuncules Music
Mercy Street
Peter Gabriel
EMI Blackwood Music Inc. Obo Real World Music Ltd.
The Heart Is the Hunter
Steve Klingaman and Lenne Klingaman
Humuncules Music
Louisiana 1927
Randy Newman, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
Low Lying
Steve Klingaman, Humuncules Music
Wayfaring Stranger
Trad. arrangement / additional lyrics
George Edwards, Anthony Cavallari and David Moitke
Wixen Music Publishing Inc. A/C Yuggoth Music
Tomorrow Is a Long Time
Bob Dylan, Special Rider Music
In My Secret Life
Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson
Sony/ATV Songs LLC and Wixen Music Publishing
Obo Sharon Robinson Songs
Everywhere I Go
Elisabeth Maurus and Curt Schneider
Sony/ATV Tunes Llc Obo Samp-UK Ltd. and Werty Music
Over the Rainbow
Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
EMI Feist Catalog Inc.
Produced by Steve Klingaman, Lenne Klingaman and Mark Christine
Lenne Klingaman – vocals
Steve Klingaman – guitar, bass, synth, organ
Mark Christine – piano, synth on tracks 2 & 3
John O’Reilly, Jr. – drums
Additional musicians – Dieter Schaaf, beats on track 2, Peter Ostroushko,
Mandolin on track 8
Recording engineer – Steve Klingaman, NoName Studio, Minneapolis
Mixing – Neilson Hubbard, Mr. Lemon Studios, Nashville
Mastering – Jim DeMain, Yes Master Studios, Nashville
Photography – RayNeutron
Package Design: Stephanie Layton
Lenne would like to thank:
Boomcrashdrumtracks.com, Ethan Kenning, Scott McCabe, Ray Spears, Jessi
Noel for styling, Hope Grandon, Maythinee Washington
All her KICKSTARTER BACKERS for joining the #HeartBrigade & believing in
her for this project.
www.lenneklingaman.com
www.facebook.com/lenneklingaman Twitter: @lennek
www.humuncules.com
Lyrics
AIN’T NOTHING SISSY ‘BOUT LOVE
Steve Klingaman, Lenne Klingaman
You give me sweet expectation
like some kind of fixation
I ain’t no distant relation
so step up your flirtation
I may let you near me but boy you better hear me
there ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
There ain’t nothing to it, once you get down to it
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
you don’t have to say it, it’s in the way you play it
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
quiver in your hips, the shiver in your lips
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
Don’t give me no hesitation
don’t give me alienation
so put your mind on vacation
this ain’t no interrogation
you know how to shake it, you ain’t gonna break it
there ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love.
There ain’t nothing to it, once you get down to it
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
you don’t have to say it, it’s in the way you play it
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
quiver in your hips, the shiver in your lips
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
I can tell by the way that you walk that walk
that you got a thing or two left to learn
and I can tell by the way that you talk that talk
that you gotta lotta lovin’ to burn
So burn me!
[There] ain’t nothing to it, once you get down to it
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
you don’t have to say it, it’s in the way you play it
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love
quiver in your hips, the shiver in your lips
ain’t nothing sissy
ain’t nothing sissy…‘bout love
I ain’t no toy but you know that I’m a bundle o’ joy
bundle of joy
and nothing could be finer for you to be the right kind of boy.
There ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love—I’m lovin’ it
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love—I’m lovin’ it
ain’t nothing sissy ‘bout love—sissy ‘bout love
nothing sissy ’bout love
THE HEART IS THE HUNTER
Steve Klingaman, Lenne Klingaman
If the heart would be a hunter in the majesty of night
Then her prey would be her lover, no I suppose that isn’t right
If the heart would be a hunter in the treachery of night
Then love would be her prey and she would pounce with all her might
The heart is the hunter, love is the kill
The heart is the hunter, we succumb to her will
Mmm mmm mmm…
Mmm mmm mmm…
No good way to say goodbye until the air has left the room
And you’re kneeling in the ashes with your dustpan and your broom
There’s no way to say goodbye and that’s the way it’s supposed to be
Couldn’t find you anymore and I had trouble finding me
The heart is the hunter, love is the kill
The heart is the hunter, we succumb to her will
Mmm mmm mmm…
Mmm mmm mmm…
I left you in the morning in the wake of checkered night
Where I fought my better angel until she threw the fight
She bolstered up my courage with a shot of something strong
How can she be so right when she can be completely wrong?
The heart is the hunter, love is the kill
The heart is the hunter, we succumb to her will
Mmm mmm mmm…
Mmm mmm mmm…
Someone’s always leaving and someone’s always left
The words can be so clear and we can be completely deaf
At the center there is peace, but all around it is a lie
That’s why I had to leave ‘cuz there’s no way to say goodbye
The heart is the hunter, love is the kill
The heart is the hunter, we succumb to her will
Mmm mmm mmm…
Mmm mmm mmm…
LOW LYING
Steve Klingaman
The flatbed was missing, tracks in the snow
you’d already left, but I was the last one to know
I ran to the kitchen but the money was gone
Johnny was saying there were cops on the lawn
come away from the window, and out of the light
the neighbors are looking and nothing is,
nothing is, nothing is right.
Low lyin’, ain’t a game that you lost
low lyin’, ain’t a line that you crossed
& I’m not achin’ for you
I’m not achin’ for you
Everything you said is written in stone
here in my heart but you left me, you left me alone
you lived outside the law cuz the money was good
but an outlaw is nothing when he steals from his blood
come away from the window, stay out of the light
the house is foreclosin’ and nothing is,
nothing is, nothing is right.
Low lyin’, ain’t a game that you lost
low lyin’, ain’t a line that you crossed
& I’m not achin’ for you
I’m not achin’ for you
I’m dancing the spirit, the spirit, the spirit, comes right
I want to be in it, begin it, and bring it to light
a man is the sum of the love that he gives
but you have to subtract the lies that he lives
Low lyin’, ain’t a game that you lost
low lyin’, ain’t a line that you crossed
Low lyin’, ain’t a game that you lost
low lyin’, ain’t a line that you crossed
& I’m not achin’ for you
I’m not achin’ for you
& I’m not achin’ for you, mister
I’m not achin’ for you
& I’m not achin’ for you, mister
I’m not achin’ for you
About The Heart Is the Hunter
Aching beauty with punch and grit. That’s the verdict on Lenne Klingaman’s debut album. It’s a classic vocal record from a singer and interpreter of songs from disparate sources. The magic she weaves places them solidly in her orbit, so songs that span the decades come from just this moment.
Some of the influences of Lenne’s sound and the album’s range include Emmy Lou Harris, Feist, Lissie, Kathleen Edwards, Joni Mitchell, Joan Osbourne, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams, Adele, Peter Gabriel, Sting and Bon Iver. How is that possible? Give it a listen.
Lenne loves the albums of Emmy Lou, Dolly and Linda Ronstadt from the ‘70s and on for the way they put their own stamp on some of the best songs of their generation. That’s what Lenne does—she makes the song her own. Lenne says, “It’s the same feeling when you hear a song sung by Ella Fitzgerald. It’s just hers; she makes it her own. It’s about perspective, story-telling, and taking you to a place you already know but making it new and breathing fresh life into it while reminding you why it was so meaningful in the first place.”
The amazing choir Lenne builds for Leonard Cohen’s “In My Secret Life” takes an iconic song to a new experience in a woman’s heart and mind. Yet in the guitar we hear the faintest echo of Pink Floyd. It’s a mash-up in the most subtle frame of understated beauty that lets her voice—and voices—shine through.
There is so much more here in the originals, the covers, and the stunning trad classic, “Wayfaring Stranger,” we could go on, but it’s maybe better to leave the surprises to you.
The arrangements by co-producers Steve Klingaman, Lenne Klingaman and Mark Christine alternate from a tight ensemble led by guitar or piano, often with Lenne’s sublime harmony arrangements. Steve’s hard-wired riffs and Mark’s fresh legato lines work like ballet, providing an underpinning that hardly drifts to solos at all. They just inhabit the edges and pauses, as Lenne lets these songs breathe on their own terms. The contrast between songs keeps things fresh with surprising twists and variations on a seamless band format that always supports the voice. And sometimes that support is just one guitar, or one piano—Lenne takes it from a whisper to a gale in a heartbeat. She has an actor’s gift for timing, and phrasing, and voice; which all makes sense since she’s a phenomenal stage actor who moves effortlessly from purely contemporary work to pure Shakespeare. She moves like that from song to song, scene to scene.
Lenne worked with a phenomenal drummer, John O’Reilly Jr., who has worked with fun., The Format, Jimmy Eat World, Jason Mraz, Schuyler Fisk, Rachael Yamagata, and Mandy Moore. Legendary mandolin player, Peter Ostroushko, graced the project for Bob Dylan’s “Tomorrow Is a Long Time;” you may know Peter from A Prairie Home Companion, and his work with Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, & Greg Brown.
Lenne mixed and mastered in Nashville with the phenomenally talented Neilson Hubbard at Mr. Lemons Studio and Jim DeMain at Yes Master Studios. Jim’s credits comprise a huge list of legends including Dolly Parton, Robert Plant, Steve Earl and Jimmy Buffett to name just a few.
To sum “Heart” up: Eclectic but cohesive, indie, folk-rock with a touch of alt-country and delicious sprinkles of a little ’70’s flare and 80’s modernity. It’s about interpretation, and making things personal and real, “aching beauty with punch and grit.” Lenne’s debut is a classic vocal record that will stay in your rotation for years to come. These are songs that speak to the heart. Their origins cross six decades and Lenne makes them all happen right now, perfectly.
