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Price of a Life

by Scott Clay

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1.
Even A Spark 03:35
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2.
Price of a Life 05:02
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3.
Flower 03:28
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4.
In Your Head 05:44
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5.
Things 04:15
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6.
Multiply 02:50
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7.
Everything Comes Around in Time 03:37
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8.
When I'm With You 04:10
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9.
Home 04:42
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10.
Where the Water Meets the Sky 06:11
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I was backpacking through Nicaragua in early 2009 and met an amazing group from Montreal, Canada who were working there through the winter as a part of OxFam Canada. I ended up staying with them for several weeks, and we all became close friends. One of the OxFam volunteers, Ben, was a fellow musician, so he and I would spend countless hours writing and performing songs for the group. They would sing along, play shaker, and snack on food and wine while we all hung out in the living room together.

This was in a small border town of Esteli, which was hit particularly economically hard. Many of the residents there would travel in and out to Honduras to work migrant jobs, or lesser desired custodian and maintenance jobs in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa because the exchange rate was in the favor of Honduras and not Nicaragua.

The OxFam Montreal group was focused on helping improve the lives of the factory workers that lived in and around Esteli and introduced me to some of the factory work that was happening near Esteli. Sewing, manufacturing, labor, etc. There was a large, unpainted metal building, with barbed wire around it. And workers would go in through a security checkpoint to start their 12 hour, non-stop shift, 6 days per week, with only Sundays off. They had all their bags searched, and bodies patted down, and the guards had machine guns and walkie-talkies.

Seeing this mistreatment of human beings, and meeting them in person was an absolute shock to me. They were the most kind and hospitable people, and would often take us in and make us dinner when we were trying our best to support THEM!? They would sometimes make as little as 2 USD per day, working so incredibly hard. Their products would get shipped over the border to Tegucigalpa where they were added to the mass of other factory work that was done in that city, for major US apparel companies, and then shipped onwards to the US and Canada.

I was so appalled by what I saw, and the conditions that good people were working in everyday, that I spent the next 2 months of the trip working over a new song called 'Price of a Life' which later became the title track to my 2017 album.


When the album was released in 2017 100% of the proceeds from the album sales went to support OxFam. I will continue to do that via a purchase of the album on Bandcamp, any and all album purchases of 'Price of a Life' will be donated directly to OxFam as they continue their efforts to end poverty globally.

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released January 10, 2017

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Scott Clay Nashville, Tennessee

Scott Clay’s sixth studio album ‘Jade’, due for release in May 2024, peeks underneath the layers of traditional Americana to reveal the Nashville songwriter in the midst of his alchemic storytelling.

Complex yet uncomplicated, the album roams from 60s inspired riffs to modern experimental folk ballads, while his unabashed lyrics and distinctive voice invite listeners on an introspective journey. ... more

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