The Long Way Home Music Card — Storm & Star
The Music Card

Storm & Star

The Long Way Home. Sixteen songs you can hold.

Every song written by Paul K Saunders, performed by Storm & Star, on an official TapTunes Music Card. Hold it to your phone and the album opens — no app to install. US addresses only for now, with shipping and handling added at checkout.

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The Long Way Home Music Card
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Storm & Star — The Long Way Home

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All three side by side, with the author and the questions: The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home official music collectible card — front The back of the card — tap with your phone or scan the QR code to listen and collect
Storm & Star — The Long Way Home album artwork

What the tap opensStorm & Star — The Long Way Home, sixteen songs, plus the stories and exclusives.

The collectible music card

Storm & Star — The Long Way Home

Songs about the people, places and second chances we collect along the way. Sixteen tracks, all written by Paul K Saunders, performed by Storm & Star, on an official TapTunes music card — a physical thing you can hold, that opens the whole album when you tap it with your phone.

  • Tap to listenHold the card to the back of your phone and the album opens. No app to install. There is a code on the card if your phone would rather scan than tap.
  • CollectThe card is yours to keep — the music, the stories behind the songs and whatever gets added later stay behind it, ready whenever you tap.
  • Music, stories, exclusivesThe sixteen songs, the story behind each one, and what only card-holders get.
  • A TrueFans CONNECT exclusive on TapTunesMade and posted by TapTunes. Each card is a physical, collectible object, not a download code.

Sixteen roads

One chapter, one song. Sixteen times.

The book and the album were never meant to be separate. Each chapter has a song written to carry it, from the first road to the last. Read a chapter, play its song, and you get more out of both than either alone.

  1. I'll Take The Long Way Home
  2. Somebody Else's Road
  3. Waitin' to Be Discovered
  4. Everybody Takes a Cut
  5. A Million Ain't a Living
  6. The Ones Who Stay
  7. Forty People on a Friday Night
  8. I Know Your Name
  9. Don't Build on Rented Land
  10. Pass the Hat
  11. Leave the Light On
  12. A Thousand Strong
  13. This Town Still Sings
  14. Nobody Owns This Song
  15. Take It Back
  16. We're Not Done Yet

Part of the book is memoir — the cardboard box at Decca, the A&R man who taught Paul to listen, one night with Sugar Lime Blue. Where a lesson needed a life to live in, it lives in Jesse: not any one artist, but a career built from patterns Paul has watched play out across dozens of real ones over four decades. The book tells you which is which as it goes.

The other two

The book the songs were written for.

Each of the sixteen songs carries a chapter of The Long Way Home. Read a chapter, play its song.

The Long Way Home ebook cover
Ebook

The Long Way Home

Sixteen chapters, part memoir, part manifesto, part roadmap. Read it on a screen tonight.

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The Long Way Home paperback
Paperback

The Long Way Home

The same sixteen chapters in print, for the shelf and for lending to the bass player.

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Questions

The practical bits

Does the card work with my phone?

Any recent iPhone or Android phone with NFC will open the album when you hold the card to it — no app needed. If yours would rather scan than tap, the QR code on the card does the same job.

Who makes and ships the card?

TapTunes, who make the official cards. It is a TrueFans CONNECT exclusive on their platform. Your card is posted to the address you give at checkout — US addresses only for now, with $2.95 shipping and handling added at checkout.

Why do the paperback and the card arrive separately?

Because they come from two places. The paperback is printed to order by Lulu and posted from there; the card is made and posted by TapTunes. Each parcel carries its own shipping and handling — $5.69 for the paperback, $2.95 for the card — added at checkout before you pay. Both ship to US addresses only for now. The ebook has none — it arrives by email.

Can I have all three?

Yes — buy each one: the ebook $5, and the paperback and the Music Card $20 each, plus shipping and handling on each ($5.69 and $2.95, US only), added at checkout. The ebook lands straight away; the paperback and the card follow in the post, separately, from the two places that make them.

You don't need the whole damn world.

You need your people. Start with the songs, and let the book take you the rest of the way.

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