Edge of the City

A few weeks before going into the studio to record this album, I sat down at the piano and wrote the title track 'Edge of the City'.

That song shared the themes and characters of a novel I’d been working on – dislocation, regret, family, the passing of time; the rewards of good, and the travails of bad, love. I dumped the songs I had up my sleeve and set to work writing those that make up this record. 'Edge' set the direction.

The new songs were character sketches, short stories in song, inspired by my love of film noir, crime fiction and songwriters like Merle Haggard and Bruce Springsteen. Its landscape however was local. I knew these people. These characters had shadowed my imaginative life for years. Over the next eighteen months I found them a story and gave them a song.

– Greg Fleming April 2012

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