Brigitte’s DeMeyer’s new album Seeker, is a mixture of poetry and soul, and is the result of the musical collaboration between the acclaimed singer/songwriter and Jano Rix, producer and keyboardist/drumming ace of The Wood Brothers. “It’s Bob Dylan meets Sly Stone” says bassist Chris Wood (The Wood Brothers, and Medeski Martin and Wood). Co-written and produced by Rix, Seeker grooves at times greasy and other times ethereal, combining both luscious and sparse arrangements with DeMeyer’s emotive vocals. Special guests add the finishing sparkle, bringing this rootsy and lyrically deep collection of songs to life. Set for release on March 26, 2021.
1. All The Blue
Lyrics By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Music By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI) and Jano Rix ©Ⓟ2020 Spinach Pitts Music (BMI) (ASCAP)
High cotton
Don’t know nothin’
Never pulled no weeds and thorns
Ain’t got the worry
Ain’t got the hurry
Ain’t got the dark enough to see the stars
The day gets weary
Your eyes are blurry
The sun is always beating you back home
Tight and the tidy
High and mighty
A finger full
Is more than some folks know
But when the night comes
That’s when your soul hums
A poor boy’s walking
Is that rich man’s run
Mighty are the stones you roll
Ain’t no hiding in the gold you throw
There’s more to the trying
Than all of you
More to the sky above
Than all the blue
Up on the ladder
The clouds are scattered
So high the climb
So clear the view
Oh Faith be mother
Under your cover
We going to know about the shiny truth
But when the night comes
That’s when your soul hums
A poor boy’s walking
Is that rich man’s run
Mighty are the stones you roll
Ain’t no hiding in the gold you throw
There’s more to the trying
Than all of you
There’s more to sky above,
Than all the blue
2. Cat Man Do
Lyrics By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Music By: Jano Rix ©Ⓟ2020 Spinach Pitts Music (BMI) (ASCAP)
There’s a cat on the strip
He so tragically hip
But nobody knows
How he do
With a nod and a wink
All tucked in his pocket
Saving up for the right
kind of cool
He’s come a long way from home
Perpetually in a jones
Down the back stairs
He’s slinking through the alley
He be lookin’ for easy
somewhere
Continual strut
Through the truth and the rut
Til he’s all but
rung outta cares
Combing it back nice and slow
Like you got something he owns
That cat man do
With his particular own hepscat brew
Leans in tight and takes you to school
That’s what the cat man do
The gold right there
In the deep of a man
Is the rule of the world
From of the palm of his hand
He got the swagger
He got it for free
That he’d drop on a dime
For the right company
That cat man do
With his particular own hepscat brew
Leans in tight and takes you to school
That’s what the cat man do
3. Salt Of The Earth
Lyrics By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Music By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI) and Jano Rix ©Ⓟ2020 Spinach Pitts Music (BMI) (ASCAP)
I got the ebb
You got the flow
I got the wonder
You got the know
Some call it itching
Some call it fleas
Some got the struggle
Some got the ease
Wanna find me a gang o’ trust
One for all and all for bust
Bent for love and all of it’s worth
And live by the salt of the earth
I could be sitting
Here by myself
Ain’t no lonesome
Uup on my shelf
Some got a story
Wrapped up and sold
If we got the truth then
We got the gold
Wanna find me a gang ‘o trust
One for all and all for bust
Bbent for love and all it’s worth
And live by the salt of the earth
4. Louisiana
Lyrics and Music By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Broken beauty, but you shining
Toking Cajun air I’m highin’
Chipping walls and mojo flyin’
Louisiana on my mind
Sipping cider be my baby
Waltz me to the second line
Though 10 hundred miles behind me
Louisiana on my mind
Miss magnolia
I don’t know ya
But you hold me in your palm
Tis the hour
Diamond flower
That you got me comin’ home
Mister midnight said it just right
From the hotel Deville
Once you get the bite in you
Keep on coming back to get your fill
Miss magnolia
I don’t know ya
But you hold me in your palm
‘Tis the hour
Diamond flower
That you keep me comin’ home
Broken beauty, but you shining
Toking Cajun air I’m highin’
Chipping walls and mojo flyin’
Louisiana on my mind
Louisiana on my mind
Louisiana on my mind
Louisiana on my mind
5. Calamity Gone
Lyrics By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Music By: Jano Rix ©Ⓟ2020 Spinach Pitts Music (BMI) (ASCAP)
Whatever’s up that sleeve
Ain’t no power to the people
Do like you please
Come back to bite you real hard
Roughing and scuffling
All the greedin’ and the evil
Got you barking real good
like a dog in the yard
Put your hand in the hand
Of the man is the mission
Still the water
And see where it goes
Whatever happens there
Ain’t no condition
Nobody bigger
Than the everyday soul
Smack talk jack
Somebody give the boy water
Take a load off the people
You calling you’re own
Dial back cool the stack
Got our mind in a-clutter
Turn it down to the sound
Of calamity gone
6. Already In
Lyrics by: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Music By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI) and Jano Rix ©Ⓟ2020 Spinach Pitts Music (BMI) (ASCAP)
Velveteen
Poetry fiend
My eyes are open
They can see
Under your coat
Still water deep
No cool hand Luke-ing’s
Gonna keep it from me
Glow like a fire
Smoke like a stove
Percolating fry daddy
Cooking it up
Don’t need a mention
Of your good name
Your soul intention is
What gives you game
We could be anywhere, or nowhere
I could be alone
But if you’re there, on the square, I call it home
No nevers, have to’s, no need to convince
With a heart that wants you
You’re already in
Already in
Do what you want to
Know what you mean
All that you do is what you believe
You are the ember
You are the stoke
You are the reason
You are the oak
We could be anywhere, or nowhere
I could be alone
But if you’re there, on the square I call it home
No nevers, have to’s, No need to convince
With a heart that wants you
You’re already in
7. Ain’t No Mister
Lyrics by: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Music By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI) and Jano Rix ©Ⓟ2020 Spinach Pitts Music (BMI) (ASCAP)
He be pretty
And he’s good
He don’t fool me
Like you could
Mister oh mister oh
You ain’t no mister like mine
Like an ember
There you stood
Aimed for pleasing
Burned me good
Ain’t your Mrs. ain’t your sister and
You ain’t no mister of mine
How he sees me
How you don’t
In his eyes I’m solid gold
Ain’t no messin’, ain’t no ‘fessin’
No he ain’t the foolin’ kind
Hi hat
Low brow
Ain’t no good at being good no how
Mister oh mister oh
You ain’t no mister like mine
8. Wishbone
Lyrics By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Music By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI) and Jano Rix ©Ⓟ2020 Spinach Pitts Music (BMI) (ASCAP)
You don’t know the right
‘Til you been wrong
You don’t know alone
‘Til you belong
You ain’t seen the short run
‘Til you go long
You don’t know ‘bout good
Until it’s gone
Got you two legs you can stand on
‘Til you can’t
Oh to walk the green
Side of the fence
Richin’ and the righteous
Making no sense
Working all their pomp and circumstance
Wishbone, love jones, sticks stones
All you can stand
Up high, down low, don’t know
How far you can bend
You got the stumble
You got the stand
You get the handle
When you give the hand
Blow out the candle
‘Fore you can see
Someone turned the light on
The light on for me
A Proverb and a prayer gets you by
‘Til one day you see another sky
Willing and a wondering
And one more ‘nother try
Lo behold and blessed to be fine
Wishbone, love jones, sticks stones
all you can stand
Up high, down low, Don’t know
How far you can bend
You got the stumble
You got the stand
You get the handle
When you give the hand
Blow out the candle
‘Fore you can see
Someone turned the light on
The light on for me
9. Seeker
Lyrics By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Music By: Jano Rix ©Ⓟ2020 Spinach Pitts Music (BMI) (ASCAP)
Oh my mother
Oh sweet Jesus
Tell me what you know
All the freedom’s
Come in pieces
Gone away the song
Cross my heart
And cross my mind
Oh have the reasons come
What I find
Is I’ve gone blind to
Where I do belong
Eager
Eager to rule my run
Inching
Inching me to the sun
Seeker
A seeker have I become
To find a beacon
Oh my seeking days
Hhave just begun
Soul is sighing
Got me trying
Under every stone
Bite the nickel
Rid the riddle
Shoo that come and go
Eager
Eager to rule my run
Inching
Inching me to the sun
Seeker
A seeker have I become
Oh I been thinking that my seeking days
Have just begun
10. Roots And Wings And Bones
Lyrics By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI)
Music By: Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 Brigitte DeMeyer ©℗2020 BDM Music (a.k.a. Brigitte DeMeyer Music) (BMI) and Jano Rix ©Ⓟ2020 Spinach Pitts Music (BMI) (ASCAP)
Starry city
Take me in your arms
For my kind
I left behind
and have traveled far
Searching
For the
blade inside the stone
For my child a
baby child no more
Mama’s
Giving it all away
‘Til my
‘Til my dying day
Follow
Where my love does go
Can’t help what you do
When you’re roots and wings and bones
Hear the bellow
Of my heart blow
Wisdom lead me on
For I believe
There ain’t no seed
Watering don’t grow
Mama’s
Giving it all away
Til my
Til my dying day
Follow
Where my love does go
Can’t help whatchu do
When you’re roots and wings and bones