Snarky Puppy feat Lucy Woodward - He Got Away (Family Dinner Volume One)

"He Got Away"
from Snarky Puppy's live DVD/CD - "Family Dinner - Volume One"

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written by Lucy Woodward
arranged by Lucy Woodward & Michael League
produced by Michael League
co-produced by Snarky Puppy
recorded and filmed at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA, in front of a live audience on March 9, 2013.

Malika Tirolien - guest vocalist
Robert "Sput" Searight - drums
Nate Werth - percussion
Michael League - bass
Bob Lanzetti - electric guitar
Mark Lettieri - baritone electric guitar
Cory Henry - acoustic piano
Bill Laurance - Fender Rhodes
Jay Jennings - flugelhorn
Mike "Maz" Maher - flugelhorn (solo)
Chris Bullock - tenor sax
Chelsea "Peaches" West - backing vocals
Katya Diaz - backing vocals
Rachella Searight - backing vocals

engineered by Eric Hartman
assisted by Avi Gunther & Jake Dempsey
mixed by Eric Hartman
mastered by Scott Hull
film directed by Andy LaViolette
filmed by Andy LaViolette, Brad Holt, Simon C.F. Yu, and Nikki Birch

On March 8th, 2013, Snarky Puppy and a host of special guests convened at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke VA. The project was to record a series of live performances in audio and video that would bring attention and benefit to the ongoing work of the center. The Jefferson Center is a non-profit arts organization that is revitalizing a key neighborhood in Roanoke with the restoration of Jefferson High School and the renovation of the Shaftman Performance Hall. The hall brings world class music to the local community through the Music Lab, providing education and recording space for local children.

The Music Lab at Jefferson Center is working daily to pull from every social and economic class of the Roanoke community and create the next wave of real, human musicians. They host low cost or free after-school programs for any interested young people filled with visits by guest artists, private instrumental instruction, and recording training. Wafting out of the little studios and rehearsal rooms on the third floor of Jefferson Center, you can hear Afro-beat in Swahili, hip-hop in Liberian Kreyol, the blues coming from the guitar of a 13 year-old prodigy, and the undeniable sound of young musicians growing. It's a thing that needs to be supported at all costs across this country, and by purchasing this record, you've done it.

A portion of every sale will go to the Music Lab at Jefferson Center.

[hu]

Absolutely bananas. Snarky Puppy, the world needs you.

[TheSoundofU]

this is pure class, I have watched this a dozen times & never tire of it. :-)

[popvision]

i love her voice, her flavor. and she's so free with it.

[dmljones]

Nice tempo change 2 minutes 30 seconds into the second. Cool Lucy and cool Snarky Puppy.

[kulpsterdaman]

Cool to hear them snarky pups tackle some swing

[mizzprez]

Great stuff as always, man that woman can sing!!

[NickRatto]

She’s got it goin N damn your soul has filled in the empty spots story line is the American story keep on keeping on

[CraigThePoet]

this sounds like something from a disney movie lol

[pranavguitarist]

Why isn't this track on the Family Dinner Vol. 1 album on Spotify? It's so good you guys are the bomb my favourite group

[mvialva]

I'll still have hope for instrumental music,   with music being made like this today

[cdrmusicaz]

her voice kind of reminds me of that song sang in jabas palace in return of the jedi. Great song

[mr_wessumz]

Man, Sput's changed over the years haha.

First song that got me 'hooked' on Lucy tho. Girl's killer!

[whirlybird]

love the bass clarinet, love the ending, love the song!

[Dashedsquirrel]

I <3 Michael League's commentary at the end

[itsme-rrwf]

Play the Lucy Woodward Quiz

on Melody Facts

"He Got Away"

Love's like fishing in the ocean 
Starve for days to catch a break 
Waiting in that boat alone 
The fish know something you don't 
They told me there aren't many of us down here 
All the good ones have been hooked 
But I threw back the finest one 
Coz I'm the one who got cooked 

He got away, he got away 
It's too late my baby's gone 
He got away, he got away 
How'd I blow it, now I know that he's the one 
But i took too long 

Well everybody's got a notion 
Of how the story's meant to be 
But I got blinded by the stars 
And missed the part meant for me 
Yes I got all swept up with emotion 
But it's too hot for me to face 
Might of had a better plan 
If I wasn't caught up in the chase 

He got away, he got away 
It's too late my baby's gone 
He got away, he got away 
How'd I blow it, now I know that he's the one 
But I took too long 

Baby, he called me baby 
When we were planning our registry 
In tennis doubles and in couple's therapy 
I'd make a special kind of wish list for Christmas 
In our Casa Suburbia 
And the neighbors would say that they can't possibly go 
To bed and read 

He got away, he got away 
It's too late my baby's gone 
He got away, he got away 
I could kick myself, 'cuz yeah, I was horribly wrong 
He got away, he got away 
It's too late my baby's gone 
He got away, he got away 
How'd I blow it, now I know that he's the one 
But I took too long 

She took too long
She took too long
She took too long..

[BakisProductions]

Beautiful..!!
Who is sexier? The singer or the music itself? :-)

[AllThingsToeseen]

kk.. so now you're telling me these amazing instrumentalists can sing too?! awe-some!!

[patrickbg]

These credits seem to be quite wrong - but awesome song!!!