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My great grandfather Lee Hammond, showed me how to dig up potatoes when I was 3. I remember going to see my grandmother Mildred in Cornelia, Ga, and seeing the rows of vegetables, that she tended by heart and hand in her beautiful sun dress. Her daughter Tracy, became the most creative and unique planter of life that I have ever known. I remember helping my grandmother Carolyn plant elephant ears in front of her double-wide in Oakwood, surrounded by her five prized schnauzers, Babe, Trojan, Schnitzel and I can't remember the others but they'll come to me. I remember watching my father grow tomatoes and cucumbers in Gainesville, and hearing him cursing the thieving deer when they started taking over the neighborhood. There is something so human about gardening. It may be, my favorite thing.

We will all return to the dirt eventually. It's later now than it's ever been and the sun is going down.

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Dig a hole and put my heart in push the earth back over me
And I can be the garden, give the roots somethin’ to eat
Then all I’ve done will still be somewhere deeper in the ground
but it’s later now than it’s ever been and the sun is going down

And the moon is looming over everything.
Maggots move their mountains into being.
The willow weeps but there is no need to grieve.
What may rot will come back evergreen

So come find me in the wood of some future cedar pine
Giving all the breezes a few pieces of my mind
‘cause all my dreams of flying leave me dying at the end
and part of me can’t wait to see my ceiling caving in

When the moon is looming over everything
The bitter fruit of all my labor
be my tomb the earth or human being
what may rot will come back

Give my body to the birds, have them shit me out to sea
so I might find the whale to sing the sailor out of me

And the moon is looming over everything
Then fall lips move but they all say nothing
And Mamma June has yet to intervene
But what may rot
What may rot, will come back

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from what may rot, released April 19, 2022
vocals, guitar, various instruments: Andrew Hammond
drums: Kevin O'Connor
piano, bass: Alex P. Wernquest

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Vandiver Asheville, North Carolina

A Soul-full Avant approach to Modern American folk, Vandiver is the creation of vocal chameleon singer/songwriter Andrew Hammond. Drummer Kevin O'Connor of Talkdemonic, supports Hammond's every-word-counts approach to lyrical songwriting and an emotive yet restrained vocal range. ... more

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