The latest album this year from singer-song writer KAR - Kent Adam Rogers has a true blue country feel. A heart felt blend of country, soft blues and thrown in for some good measure his typically distinct crooner style. It is with a refreshing uniqueness that KAR gives us "Son under the Sun", an songbook filled with very romantic sounds as well as proudly Australian ballads. Sit back and listen to the greatest songs of the Australian scene in a long time, where ever you can, but no doubt best heard under the Sun.
Son under the Sun - 2010
KAR
1. September Land
2. That Lake where we kissed
3. Aint no dirt road in this heart
4. Son under the sun
5. Bolt action blues
6. Travelling boxer
7. Mother of the bride
8. A mans guilt
9. He is a fool not to love you right
10. You had me at 14.
11. Shotgun saint
12. Brothel by the church
13. Piano in the paddock
14. Even Bogans get the Blues
15. You shouldn't wake up feeling blue
Lyrics to September Land
KAR
This isn't another song about a great wide land
This is more about the time of a place I once knew
Though you gotta excuse me getting a kinda blue
But here sit back and listen as I tell you about
September Land
Some decades long ago when a boy I sort of knew
Well see he got this girl feeling kinda true
The pair went on together and despite all the troubles
they found one another a lovers pact they made
This was long ago in a small small country town
Some year in September when the land was young and wild
Like two excited teens they were hand in hand
As nature flourished so did their love
You see in this September Land mother nature takes
your hand and makes you feel a love unknown
Out far in this great old land man will have his
woman under the stars, moon and sun.
Thats just the rules of September Land
With the cruel hard hands of mechanical time
The land did change and so did the pair
When a winter washed on down like tears of clown
the foolish boy did ponder his own deeds.
As winter chilled the nights this girl found another,
And she soon forgot her young man
So with the passing season came another far land
And the boy, the girl and Septmber disappeared.
You see in this September Land mother nature takes
your hand and makes you feel a love unknown
Out far in this great old land man will have his
woman under the stars, moon and sun.
So when we sit idle and watch the course of spring
Just be sure to know its a short lived thing
All thats young and wild will soon be old and tired
Because every september land will end.
The feel of a hand, holding this old man
Is a memory Ill not forgo.
The feel of fluttering heart inside
Is a memory long gone.
What map can I get that will lead me back to this place?
Where can I stumble and come across that town?
Was September Land real ? Or did I dream all
Its a place in time and not in mind.
In September Land, I was a young foolish man.
Thats why I left, kicked out of my own heaven.
Where have you gone September Land.
Lyrics to "You had me at 14"
By KAR
Little girl sitting there alone
Little did you know
Little could you know
That you stole my heart
So many years have passed
We've both grown up so much
But little me tell you darling
Your still that sweet girl
You stole my heart
You took my eyes
You made me think and feel
You had me at 14.
We were only kids
Naive and full of life
Tears were yet to be shed
But darling that's called life
To shy to tell
To timid to confront
To optimistically foolish
I squandered time away
And now as a man
I stand before you here
I whisper into your ears
And gently I will say....
You stole my heart
You took my eyes
You made me think and feel
You had me at 14.
I was just a kid too.
Life is a funny little tragedy
But why dwell on lost moments
When we can take now and make it
To me, your still that girl that
had me at 14.
So now I stand before you
Just as vunerable as I was then
Now I stand before you
Very much still a boy, but with mans wear
and tear.
Darling girl...you had me at 14.
You had me...at 14.
