Stagg, Barry - Malachi: Flowers from the Green Ledger Vol. 1 - Slaughterhouse of Love

Tracks

		Track Name	Length
	1	Slaughterhouse of Love	03:30
	2	Can't Talk Religion	04:55
	3	This Empty Road	05:15
	4	Land of the Plastic Jesus	04:47
	5	Tear Me Open	03:54
	6	Breakthrough	04:14
	7	The Candyman	05:46
	8	Sometimes	04:57
	9	Living in the City	04:14
	10	Through the Amber Gates	03:38
	11	I Can't Believe the World is Flat	02:59
	12	Too Many Rivers	05:42
	13	Small Fish	07:22
	14	They Lay Your Body Down	02:06

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A Museum of Canadian Music Exclusive — presented in close collaboration with Barry Stagg, this rare Malachi album is made available to the public for the very first time. Unheard anywhere until now and preserved directly from the artist’s own archives, it stands as a long-hidden document of Stagg’s deeply personal, spiritually charged songwriting. Drawn from years of private work and creative clarity, the recording captures Malachi at his most reflective and lyrical, weaving poetry, social conscience, and inner revelation into one of his most intimate musical statements.

Barry Stagg (Malachi)
Barry Stagg’s writings traverse the spectrum of human experience, from the realm of childhood innocence to the adult world, so often beset with seemingly insurmountable cares and indifference to the humanity around it. The unique blending of his poetic lyrics and music mirrors for us the composer’s revelations found in his inner journey toward self discovery. In exploring both familiar and innovative themes, his works, beautifully composed, have been so shaped as to involve you, the listener, in his exciting pilgrimage. The name, Malachi, or “my messenger” under which the composer now writes, is not chosen as a pseudonym but as a description of the messages inherent within the content of the composer’s work. Just as the writings of the early biblical prophet concerns itself with religious and social injustices, the need for the acceptance and understanding of the oneness of man and the interrelationship of all people, so, too, do we find ourselves, through the writer’s efforts, reawakening to the spiritual spark that lies within each of us.

Malachi (Barry Stagg): lead vocals, guitar on 'Through the Amber Gates'
Dan Doiron: all guitars except on 'Small Fish and 'Through the Amber Gates'
Frank Mumford: electric, acoustic bass
Jean-Luc LaForge: piano, harmony vocals
Todd Nowell: drums, harmony vocals
Donnie Muir: organ
Tom Roach: percussion (congas, djembe, shaker, tambourine, and brushes on 'This Empty Road')
Ray Legere: mandolin, fiddle
Helen Scammell: harmony vocals

All songs written and composed by Barry Stagg (Malachi)
Produced and Engineered (except Small Fish) by Dan Doiron
Musical and vocal arrangements (except Small Fish) by Dan Doiron
Production plus musical and vocal arrangements on Small Fish by Tony Green
Small Fish recorded and mixed at TGO Records, Montreal, Quebec
All songs (except Small Fish) recorded at In Session Recording Studio, Truro, Nova Scotia, and mixed at Crossroads Records, Asheville, North Carolina, by Van Atkins
Executive Producer: Barbara King

Cover Design by "Big Game” 79.4 x 122.3 cm, alkyd on panel, copyright Geoff Butler, 1992 (from “Angel Looks” Series). Collection of Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Graphic Design by Lynn Weathers/ColorBomb, Woodruff, South Carolina

Special thanks to: Barbara King, Norman Hines, Marilyn Brown, Mary Burey, Rod MacLennan, Dave Wilson, Lillian and Percy Chipman, Kay and Rob Hay, Mary Lane Lowry, Van Atkins

Thanks also goes to: Betty and Bun Hay, Cathy Hinton

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