New Marc Delgado: “Stuck on the Radio ”
Marc’s first studio album Wildwood Road was filled with cinematic, psychedelic snapshots of his days of addiction & violence, living out of motels up & down California’s San Joaquin Valley. Woven into these scenes are songs of loss & survival, redemption, recovery & love. When not performing with his band, Spanish Ghost, Delgado plays constantly as a one-man show. Part folkie, poet, raconteur & stand-up comic, Delgado tells stories & shares his experience from dark to light & all the shadows in between.
He’s just released a new single, “Stuck on the Radio.” Stream it here.
Marc on the new song: “I left Fresno, Ca and moved north to Sacramento, where the river cut the city in half and the methamphetamine the bikers were making kept me up for days at a time. I was living alone in and out of motels and talking to entities only I could see. I was drinking all the time at The Monte Carlo, early in the morning and after-hours. I was having a recurring dream in which it was either dusk or dawn and I was walking naked on The Business 80 Freeway. I could hear cars and trucks but I was all alone. I wanted desperately to change my situation, but each day was exactly the same, as mediocre and recurring as a Top 40 Radio Station”
Stuck on the Radio - Lyrics
Broadcast placemat smile
A worn out station dial
Feedback static eyes
All night transmission dies
This is what the ratings cost you
Though you find that you might be lost on the dial
You’re stuck on the radio
I’m sure that you’ve heard this song before
Then you’ll find
You’re stuck on the radio
I’m sure that you’ve heard this song before
Up with the sunrise no surprise
That you’re down in the driveway
Head from your feet then they come and go
Short-wave bee-line to the nearest high
Then you’re out on the parkway
Horn blasts they bleed from your stereo
This is what the ratings cost you
Though you find that you might be lost on the dial
You’re stuck on the radio
I’m sure that you’ve heard this song before
Then you’ll find
You’re stuck on the radio
I’m sure that you’ve heard this song before
Every day you sing the same thing
Every day you sing the same thing
Every day you sing the same thing
Broadcast placemat smile