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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    3 CD box set with 40 songs about Olympia WA plus a detailed 80 page book with the history behind the songs and a plethora of great photos. With over 100 Olympa musicians. Stunning!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Olympia - A True Story via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Yes, this is all about the return of the native son. I moved back to Olympia six years ago and I am grateful to be here. This album would not exist if I had not.
Being away has given me a lens, an appreciation, that I don’t think I would have had if I’d always lived here. Coming down State Street just past Central, the vista is magnificent - the Capitol building, the Black Hills. Coming down West Bay Drive - is Rainier out today? When I cross the 4th Ave bridge and look north up the bay to the Olympics, it always makes me feel happy. Olympia has its flaws, like everywhere, but it’s my town.

I love Lisa Ornstein’s solo on this song – beautiful!

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For so many years I wandered
Looking for the inside track
Always looking forward
Never looking back
I’d hear a voice from somewhere
Maybe it was just inside
I’d turn my head to listen
The years kept slippin’ by

Olympia my home
I have not forgotten
I’ve come back to you

Your skies are fleecy cotton
Floating high above the bay
The Olympic Mountains send their love
The herons greet the day
The Black Hills rise to greet us
As we roll down State to town
Above all else our Queen Rainier
She wears her snow-capped crown

Olympia my home

Our Capital stands on the bluff
Look north, the Sound survey
In the west the sun retires
and ends another day

Somedays I think you’re my mother
Holding me so warm and tight
With a simple love and beauty
What could be more right?

Olympia my home

credits

from Olympia - A True Story, released October 14, 2022
The True Olympinas + Lisa Ornstein - Octave Fiddle

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Tom Dyer and The True Olympians Olympia, Washington

The True Olympians were formed shortly after Tom Dyer moved back to his hometown Olympia in 2006. Their focus is primarily recording, though they do play yer occasional live show. Current members: Tom - vox, guitar etc,, Gene Tveden- bass, b-vox, Joe Cason - keys, b-vox, Lisa Ceazan- vocals, and Jeff Parkhurst - drums, b-vox. Jeff is the band's 4th drummer. ... more

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