Have Had by Luke Bern Carr

"Have Had" was recorded over a five year period in various houses, warehouses, closets, kitchens, studios, living and dining rooms, hotel rooms and one woodshop. Luke Bern Carr recorded and performed every instrument on the album, as well as mixed and mastered the work himself. This album serves as Carr’s return, reinvention, and continued exploration as a solo musical artist, and is his most honest attempt at a solo endeavor to date.

Carr began writing Have Had in early 2016 after an especially painful break-up that foiled his plans to relocate to Canada. By the end of the year he found himself in Standing Rock, North Dakota, with his camera and audio recorder, documenting the stories of protesters. Upon leaving Standing Rock on Election Day, 2016, Carr found himself stranded in a shifted and shocked America. Weaving his personal grieving process with that of a nation’s, Carr began honing in on a collection of songs that explored the nuances of change in a personal, national and global sense, delving into this theme on both a micro and macro level. These songs would eventually become "Have Had".

“The phrase ‘have had’ always struck me as a strange hiccup in the language, while still being so beautifully loaded in it’s meaning. To have something and yet no longer have something and so to have it always - it’s a perfect phrase. Isn't it?” - LBC

Tracklist

1.	Qualia Leaf	3:44

2.	American Romantic	3:48

3.	Atlas Lost	4:39

4.	Canada Waits	6:00

5.	New Green	2:14

6.	New Compass	4:04

7.	American Reprise	2:20

8.	Have Had	3:09

Credits

released September 4, 2020

Produced, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Luke Bern Carr.

Mixed and mastered at Bernlore Studios.

Special thanks to the CALLUS String Quartet.

All words + music by Lucas Michael Bernard Carr.

"While I did spend so much time alone working on this record, I could not have done it alone.

Thank you to everyone who lent a mic, or an instrument, or expertise, or a room to record in, or a home to live in while producing this record; Johnny Bell, Eliza Lutz (Matron Records), Christine Carr (Momma), Richard Pitner, Brian Haas, Andrew Tumason, Ben Montgomery, Talia Kosh, Johnny Salazar, Peter Duggan, Bailey Schaumburg, all the fine individuals of Ghost and many more.

A very special thanks to Nathan Dunton, Peter Larkin, Will Dyar, Kabby, John Dieterich and Mike Marchant for their musical ears during the production of this record.

Also to the people who entertained my experiments with early forms of these songs, including Nathan Smerage, Dylan Blanchard, Claudio Olachea, Rob Lundberg and Andrew Dixon, thank you.

And to everyone who listened to what I was doing along the way and encouraged me to finish; Arella Hordyk, Joey Bentley, Chris McLean, Andy Chervenak, JP Stupfel, Bryon Parker, Devin McKnight, Sebastian Espeset, Greg Martini, Mike Young, family and friends, there are many, thank you.

Thank you to my community in and around Hernandez, New Mexico and the Espanola Valley that served as such a foundation as I worked on the final stages of this record, coming out for air once in a while.

And to my dad, Michael W. Carr, for always drumming wildly on the dashboard while singing harmony so loudly to the car stereo. For checking in on my progress over the years as I worked to produce the best album I could. Rest in peace, love you, miss you, and thank you." - LBC

Bernlore Records
BLR-005
Bernlore.com

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