Lucille's Gotta Go Back Home

The fourth single of Fleming's upcoming album is out now.

In it Fleming returns to a character who has popped up twice before in songs in the last decade.

"Lucille's first adventure was in Edge of the City's Recent Hire. She left Auckland in a hurry - a trail of wreckage in her wake. Then she popped up a couple of years later in Philadelphia in Lucille on the To Hell With These Streets album, but as a missing person. That song was narrated by a barman answering questions given by a privatedetective her father had employed. 

"Last year, when I wrote this record, I started wondering what might've happened to her. She'd be in her late twenties now. Would she ever come back home? Did she get clean? Could her mother and father ever forgive her? This song is the result."

Check out the story of Lucille on this Spotify playlist

Gas, coffee, cigarettes and gum

The moving new track from Greg Fleming is a song that follows the thoughts and experiences of a worker in an all night gas station.

"I'm not sure where this came from… the first few lines just came to me and, at first, I resisted the idea of a narrative song. I tried a few other approaches but this song wanted to tell a story - and slowly this guy came into focus. Maybe it's a hangover from visiting lots of all night gas stations where you order your stuff through the window!”

Gas, coffee, cigarettes and gum is off Greg's upcoming album Same City.

Recorded at The Lab, Mt. Eden, Auckland 2020. Produced by Wayne Bell and Greg Fleming. Engineered and mastered by Ollie Harmer. Music and lyrics Greg Fleming.

Small City

The new track is a three minute, catchy as hell, guitar heavy pop song song about living in a small city - hello Auckland! - but never bumping into the one person you want to meet, and many you don’t! Streaming everywhere! Album out in May!

Strollin' Greg Fleming's jazzy new single

Greg Fleming's third single from the upcoming album Get Off at Lincoln is a short, sharp, jazzy tune about strollin' home through the city on a beautiful late summer day.

"Some days chicken salad/ Some days chicken shit/ some days you fall in love/ aint no stoppin' it"

Fleming says the song was almost left off the album but bass player Mark Hughes kept going on about it and then turned up at the studio one morning with his acoustic bass.

"I'm so glad he did, it's one of my faves on the record - and also has a line I've always wanted to work into a song - "I'm so tired of living on my phone" - cos aren't we all!"

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Headlights first track from Working Poor Country released

Headlights is the first single from Greg Fleming and The Working Poor's fourth album Working Poor Country.

Its high-energy, propulsive beat mirrors the fraught city walk of the lyrics.

 

"It's about walking downtown, listening to Lee Morgan's Sidewinder on my headphones and nearly getting run over crossing Fanshawe St," says Greg.

Headlights was recorded live - in one take - at Mt Eden's Lab studios. New York-based filmmaker Andrew B. White was also on hand for the video shot in Auckland and New York.

Working Poor Country, out digitally in October, is a 12 track album which gets back to Fleming's alt-country roots.