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'''"Last Harbor"''' is the 12th and last song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. [[Mark Eitzel]] recorded a live acoustic version for his 1991 ''[[Songs Of Love Live]]'' album, and a studio version re-made with [[Manolis Famellos]] and a group of Greek traditional musicians for 2003's ''[[The Ugly American]]''. | '''"Last Harbor"''' is the 12th and last song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. [[Mark Eitzel]] recorded a live acoustic version for his 1991 ''[[Songs Of Love Live]]'' album, and a studio version re-made with [[Manolis Famellos]] and a group of Greek traditional musicians for 2003's ''[[The Ugly American]]''. | ||
In a 1989 interview with ''Unhinged'', Eitzel said, "I like Eugene O'Neill a lot and there's two references to 'last harbor' in ''Long Days Journey Into Night'' and also in ''The Iceman Cometh''. He was obsessed with the last harbor because he used to take ships and in ''The Iceman Comet'' which is about alcoholism and living a lie, the last harbor is like a place of disaster, a place to end up in. In ''Long Days Journey Into Night'' the last harbor is a place of transcendence. At first the song was 'Snug Harbor' or 'Safe Harbor', but I was reading Eugene O'Neill so it became '[[Last Harbor]]'. But I left it open to sound like the last harbor too, because this person I'm confronting with myself is like - are you going to be it? It's like using the words to 3 different levels if I can but it's not morbid. It's a sad song because it's from a sad place, but most of my stuff is sad. I mean did they ask Turner if he was a sad person?"<ref>{{cite web | url=http://americanmusicclub.com/index.php?title=Articles:Unhinged_-_Winter_1989 | work=Unhinged | date=Winter 1989 | author=Drew | title=American Music Club | accessdate=March 27, 2018}}</ref> | |||
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