A deep clean you can count on!

In Their Own Words

These nine songs are like school pictures. They are wallet-sized portraits taken between 2006 and 2016. The songs on “A deep clean you can count on!” are frightened, sad, confused, bewildered, dislocated, hopeful, and hopeless. They’re emotional snapshots.

Sometimes I can’t recognize myself in the songs. Other times I’m so swept up that I’m carried back in time by strong, old feelings. I’m hungover and doomed. I’m an unfixable thing that hurts other people.

Whenever you find an old picture of yourself in a yearbook or a sock drawer I hope you feel happy to be where you are. More than anything else, that’s how this record makes me feel.

- Owen

Press

“FitzGerald has that remarkable talent of being able to stop you in your tracks with his words” -Americana UK

“Although you’ll never find him riding in a posse, he does roam the same backwoods as Cass McCombs, Bill Callahan and maybe Damien Jurado; and on February’s forthcoming long player, A deep clean you can count on!, nine tracks straight from his soul, you’ll find him examining all the disassociations that buffet and abrade us in our early to mid 21st-century lives: strained relationships with our bodies, falling in love, getting sober and just plain damn getting by.” -Backseat Mafia

“An artist as concerned with narrative and setting as he is mood, willing to descend into the smallest details of life and emerge with a picture comical and tragic and often bizarre. A songwriter, that is, who might follow in the footsteps of John Prine and Bill Callahan but owes as much to authors like Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers and Harry Crews.” -Various Small Flames

Performance Credits

• Track 1 - Touching The Oven At Work

  • Vocals - Owen FitzGerald

  • Guitars - Owen FitzGerald

  • Guitars - Patrick O’Neill

  • Keys - Patrick O’Neill 

  • Bass - Dylan Turner

  • Drums - Marc Allen

• Track 2 - Dark Meat

  • Vocals - Owen FitzGerald

  • Guitars - Owen FitzGerald

  • Slide Guitar - Daniel Fields 

  • Bass - Dylan Turner 

  • Drums - Rob DiMauro 

  • Keys - Joe MacPhail 

• Track 3 - Don’t Give Me A Pet

  • Vocals - Owen FitzGerald

  • Guitars - Owen FitzGerald

  • Bass - Owen FitzGerald

  • Drums - John Howie Jr. 

• Track 4 - Austin Holly

  • Vocals - Owen FitzGerald

  • Keys - Joe MacPhail

  • Saxophone -  Danny Abrams

  • Bass - Alex Bingham 

  • Drums - Saman Khoujinian 

• Track 5 - L.T.L.

  • Vocals - Owen FitzGerald

  • Guitars - Owen FitzGerald

  • Bass - Owen FitzGerald 

  • Drums - Saman Khoujinian 

• Track 6 - Fear On Pine Street 

  • Vocals - Owen FitzGerald

  • Guitars - Owen FitzGerald 

  • Mandolin - Owen FitzGerald 

  • Keys - Patrick O’Neil 

  • Memory Man - Patrick O’Neil 

  • Bass - Owen FitzGerald

  • Drums - Saman Khoujinian 

• Track 7 - Forest Secrets (Hope On Pine Street) 

  • Vocals - Owen FitzGerald 

  • Keys - Joe MacPhail 

  • Clarinet - Danny Abrams

  • Bass - Alex Bingham 

  • Drums - Saman Khoujinian 

• Track 8 - Bismuth, The Last Gentleman 

  • Vocals - Owen FitzGerald

  • Guitars - Owen FitzGerald 

  • Slide Guitar - Daniel Fields 

  • Bass - Saman Khoujinian 

  • Drums - Saman Khoujinian 

• Track 9 - All The Good Times Are Past And Gone 

  • Vocals - Saman Khoujinian

  • Vocals - Owen FitzGerald  

  • Guitar - Saman Khoujinian

  • Nashville Guitar - Owen FitzGerald

Production Credits

• Written by Owen FitzGerald

  • Except - All The Good Times Are Past And Gone - American Traditional 

• Engineering by Saman Khoujinian 

• Final Mixes by Saman Khoujinian, Ryan Johnson & Owen FitzGerald

• Mastered by Saman Khoujinian 

• Produced by Owen FitzGerald & Saman Khounjinian

• Sequencing by Alex Riggs

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