Buy the original song: https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/peppermint-stick

Peppermint Stick is available on the Green Monkey Records compilation It Crawled From The Basement [GM 1001] Want more? http://greenmonkeyrecords.com/product/various-it-crawled-from-the-basement-the-green-monkey-records-anthology/


The Green Pajamas play Peppermint Stick Live at The Backstage in Ballard, June 16, 1989. It was Green Monkey Records night at the height of the Seattle music scene. Ballard is, of course, a neighborhood in Seattle WA. The Backstage was one of the better places to play.

The Green Pajamas are: Jeff Kelly - Voice, Guitar. Joe Ross - Bass. Steven Lawrence - Guitar, Voice. Karl Wilhelm - Drums in 1989 .

Special thanks to: Darrell Fowler for loaning me his camera that night in 1989.

Video shot (1989) and edited (2010) by Howie Wahlen

Buy the song: https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/walking-in-the-rain-2
Buy the vinyl: http://greenmonkeyrecords.com/product/the-green-pajamas-ghosts-of-love-lp/

The Green Pajamas perform "Walking in the Rain" on The New Spud Goodman Show live December 2, 1989.

Video by Scott Sterbenz

"Kim the Waitress" performed by The Green Pajamas. Live at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle, 09-02-2005.

"Kim the Waitress" performed by The Green Pajamas. Live at the Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater in Seattle, 06-23-2007.

"Gazelle" performed by The Green Pajamas. Live at the King Cobra in Seattle, 06-21-2008.

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The Green Pajamas play a musical tribute to John Lennon on what would have been his 70th birthday. Live at Silver Platters in Seattle WA. October 9, 2010.

Video shot and edited by Howie Wahlen

http://KEXP.ORG presents The Green Pajamas performing "Lonesome End of the Lake" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded December 27, 2013.

Host: Sharlese Metcalf
Audio Engineer: Jackson Long
Cameras: Justin Wilmore, Chrispy Harrison & Tim Meinig
Editor: Justin Wilmore

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http://KEXP.ORG presents The Green Pajamas performing "The Queen's Last Tango" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded December 27, 2013.

Host: Sharlese Metcalf
Audio Engineer: Jackson Long
Cameras: Justin Wilmore, Chrispy Harrison & Tim Meinig
Editor: Justin Wilmore

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http://KEXP.ORG presents The Green Pajamas performing "Why Good Men Go Bad" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded December 27, 2013.

Host: Sharlese Metcalf
Audio Engineer: Jackson Long
Cameras: Justin Wilmore, Chrispy Harrison & Tim Meinig
Editor: Justin Wilmore

http://kexp.org

From the Jeff Kelly album Beneath The Stars, Above The River https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-stars-above-the-river

From Jeff Kelly's "Beneath The Stars, Above The River" https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-stars-above-the-river

From the album "Beneath the Stars, Above the River." https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-stars-above-the-river

From the album Beneath The Stars, Above the River. https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-stars-above-the-river

Jeff Kelly and The Cats of Cádiz live at Tim's Tavern in Seattle. Songs from Jeff's "Beneath The Stars, Above The River" https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-stars-above-the-river Phil Hirschi: Cello, Kerry Fowler: Bass, Eric Lichter: drums, Laura Weller Vanderpool; guitar, vocals, Jeff Kelly: Vocals, guitar Filmed by Travis Curry

Jeff Kelly and The Cats of Cádiz live at Tim's Tavern in Seattle. Songs from Jeff's "Beneath The Stars, Above The River" https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-stars-above-the-river Phil Hirschi: Cello, Kerry Fowler: Bass, Eric Lichter: drums, Laura Weller Vanderpool; guitar, vocals, Jeff Kelly: Vocals, guitar Filmed by Travis Curry

Jeff Kelly and The Cats of Cádiz live at Tim's Tavern in Seattle. Songs from Jeff's "Beneath The Stars, Above The River" https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-stars-above-the-river
Phil Hirschi: Cello, Kerry Fowler: Bass, Eric Lichter: drums, Laura Weller Vanderpool; guitar, vocals, Jeff Kelly: Vocals, guitar

Filmed by Travis Curry

From Jeff Kelly - Beneath the Stars, Above the River
https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-stars-above-the-river

Digital single from Jeff Kelly.
Available at: https://greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/of-missingness

The lyric of “Of Missingness” is a brief attempt to express in English the feelings evoked by the Portuguese word, “saudade.” The word has no direct translation into English but I heard one Portuguese woman say the closest way of expressing it might be, “missingness.”

Jasmine Garsd, writing on the NPR website, explained it like this: "Perhaps my favorite of these elusive words is saudade, a Portuguese and Galician term that is a common fixture in the literature and music of Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde and beyond. The concept has many definitions, including a melancholy nostalgia for something that perhaps has not even happened. It often carries an assurance that this thing you feel nostalgic for will never happen again. My favorite definition of saudade is by Portuguese writer Manuel de Melo: "a pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy.”

I feel like I have written many songs, starting when I was very young, that feel like this, though I didn’t know the word…


Of Missingness

Beauty, fading like a flower
In the fog of some lost hour
Stuck forever in the fall

Freezes like a memory in a mirror
Lost forever though it’s clearer
Than no memory at all

Of some place I’ll never go
Of some face I’ll never know
At the end of the rainbow of missingness

Valentina, Valentina, men have loved you
More than all the stars above you
More than I could ever know

I didn’t want you, didn’t need you, didn’t wish you
So why is it then I miss you
Like some love from long ago

From some place I’ll never go
Is some face I’ll never know
At the end of the rainbow of missingness

© St. Brigid Publishing/BMI

The new album by Jeff Kelly