

Library aDvocate
Library Advocate is Cory Anderson. Incarnations include The Swaths and the Skyline String Band. Library Advocate finds inspiration in the Grateful Dead, Danny Barnes, Bill Frisell, Neem Karoli Baba and the Black Hills of South Dakota. Enjoy!
Vocals, Guitar - Cory Anderson
Upcoming Shows
Prairie Berry Winery patio - Hill City, SD - June 18th - 3-5pm
Backyard Family Night - Piedmont, SD June 21st - 5pm
Family Food Truck Night - Canyon Lake Park - Rapid City, SD - July 4th
News & Updates
ISO: person/company who can book gigs for Library Advocate and the Skyline String Band.
If I think of every gig I’ve ever played, 95% of them were dropped in my lap. This is quite the character flaw for somebody that has wanted to play music for a living. Essentially, I’m looking for a company/person to email venues and keep an eye open for events that are looking for music. The only way it probably works out is getting a percentage of each gig booked. This is perhaps a naive ask. Thank you to everyone who has ever had me/us play a shindig or two. Music is something that feeds my soul and I’ll continue to play a couple of times or so a month, but I could truly play every week. Thanks, - Cory Anderson

TV Ice
The Swaths (one of Library Advocate’s other projects) debut album.
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Believe Too Singer
I hope I come across a bigfoot in these hills
I hope a UFO hovers, hovers over Norris Peak
Skinwalkers can keep their distance, along with the ghosts
But I wouldn’t mind more lined up synchronicities
Or any ancient symbol carved into rock
I believe too Singer, it’s more fun to believe
There’s an infinite amount of unknown, yet discovered, mystery
What about the other 50 areas before 51
What about the Georgia Guidestones
And all those insidious triangles
The after-beating-heart dimension
The angels and the spriits
The inward search is endless
As above so below
I believe too Singer, it’s more fun to believe
There’s an infinite amount of unknown, yet discovered, mystery
Indra
Web of Indra, you’ve done it again
Nobody can shake it, just vibrates more
Go to room to learn about the box, but what’s outside it
The gold, the gold you crave, the gold you crave
All the avenues, lead to single point
The parable a metaphor, the metaphor a parable
Follow bliss, at all costs
Don’t wonder, what could have
Could have been
Ten of Diamonds
Found a card on the sidewalk
How it happened to be
A ten of diamonds, I’ll never know
Gears turned around with a guiding hand
It’s a town not like others
A car on the interstate
Containing a comedian and a clown
It spoke to me, like it did to you
A living please, it’ll happen in time
Most of time, consuming my mind
It’s a town not like others
A car on the interstate
Containing a comedian and a clown
It spoke to me, like it did to you
A seven-button bandit had mercy today, and more
More vibrations to come, a quake in the heart perhaps
Sunlight
The world is burning, burning up
It’s been burning, burning up
But open your heart
Sometimes you find a peaceful patch of ice
I need to go out
Let the sunlight hit my skin
Just to remind myself
That the world still spins
The wood in this cafe
And the photos on the wall
The leather chair I’m in
And the Edison light bulbs
The Joy in melancholy
And the cure all drug
Electronic abyss
And trying to read minds
Wooden heart
Who am I to judge but I often do
Keep a grudge, that’s okay, but it ain’t serving you
Not a lecture or a teaching moment
Is it conjecture or seething foment
Lungs expanding in unison
Taking turns like the moon and the sun
I have no reason to be done
Let the two, have some fun
Words are fun but they all have weight
The state of the state ain’t great
There are no errors, are you serious
What am I suppose to do with that, I’m curious
A wooden heart full of splinters
Smoothed over by time, sand and winters
A ribbon for participating
Choosing love over hating
Filter
Struggle with what grows
There’s only one side
To the absolute
Oh boy what could have been
There’s little funding
For the truth
It get’s lost
In the filter
Corporate mouthpieces on the news today
Ignore what’s right
For a paycheck
The planet is a ship
And it has sprung a leak
It’ll take everyone
Deep inside
Deep inside my heart
Deep inside my mind
Deep inside my soul
I want to know it
The ball of fire within
The glow inside
The wisdom that is and isn’t and beyond
Is there a secret in there
A key or a truth
So deep inside that it’s everywhere and nowhere
Thump Thump in my heart
A wave in my veins
A motion that never began and it sure as hell doesn’t stop
To get in touch and be present for it
To find home in default mode
How to reach it
The face of god
Not the one alluded to in any book
Not anyone’s opinion of it, but it itself
The god not inside, inside a box
And I don’t no I don’t mean church walls
The object without form
A light that eludes all description
The calmest exploding sea
It doesn’t, no it doesn’t need you
It is you and everything else
It’s not the ego but the ability for it to exist
Framed paper on the wall won’t help you
And the coins in your wallet are useless
Pride and aversions and attachments
Blacking it out from view
Numbing your fingers, unable to feel
The human condition you can’t heal
I write like I know
I just know other people do and have
I sing like I know
I just know other people do and have
Clapton billy preston pity
I could get a pile of money
But that’s a whole lot of work
I’d rather be sitting over there
Digging a hole in the dirt
Clapton Billy Preston Pity
I got a lady at home
And a dog to boot
No, I’m not kicking the dog
It’s just a figure of speech
Clapton Billy Preston Pity
I got a melody stuck in my head
And it can stay right there
Perhaps fall asleep
Perhaps I’ll fall asleep
Clapton Billy Preston Pity
And everything’s free
Except our hearts
But your ID will donate it
If you checked the box
Clapton Billy Preston Pity
You already had the key
And you always did
Even though you lost it
Downtown last week
Black Hills diddy
Kay’s so pretty
questions
No one tells you what’ll even happen, even though they try
In the dirt go seeds and those who die
Lie back and wonder up at the night sky
Questions that’ll make you cry, that boil down to why
Reality rationalized, is a rude disguise
An explained existence, erroneous
At five, thought I knew alive
Ten, Jesus in again
Fifteen, gettin’ into green
Twenty, still no money
Every tunnel is competing for you
Don’t get sucked in, don’t get locked in, out of the blue
More questions than answers
After all these years