Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie Prince Billy What the Brothers Sang LP (Vinyl)
& lt;font color= & quot;#FF0000 & quot; & gt; & lt;b & gt;Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Perform New Versions of Everly Brothers Classics! & lt;/b & gt; & lt;/font & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; Here is the fate of all the years, decades, centuries and millennia and their people: to fade away and be less remembered, to eventually harden into a thing called history. This includes the great long day of the 20th Century that all of us have in some way known. While we can remember what was really seen there and done there, let there be song! & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; As children, the music of The Everly Brothers touched Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie Prince Billy; it touches Dawns children and the little prince within Bonny today, and makes them dance and sing. The Brothers harmonies make the hairs stand up they enervate and inspire. Beyond the visceral impact of any one song, any So Sad or Devoted to You that rings out from the radio on any given day, there is also the tracks that The Brothers trod over the course of several decades of singing together and making records. They didnt stand still and neither did their songs. And so, What the Brothers Sang is no mere gesture of nostalgia; these new versions rethink The Everly Brothers for the audience of listeners today, people who naturally might have no knowledge or experience with those songs. Why should they? Its not everyone who trawls through the dust of the past for their pleasures. Most of us live today and so, for today, these songs are made. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; What the Brothers Sang is made with deep respect for, is inspired by The Everly Brothers, but it pays tribute by being a record that only Dawn and Bonnie could make, and only in the room with the players that had come to join them. Their duets are a sensuous display of give and take that includes everything thats resonating in the room, every surface thats being pressed or rubbed or hit is a part of the action. Their harmonies are in the tradition, but they are their own, not cutting-on-the-dotted-line of Everly magic. These songs make Dawn and Bonnie more themselves. They have their own natural way, and it is infused in every deep moment of every song here. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; What the Brothers Sang extols another chapter of The Great American Songbook for as sure as the tuxedo-clad songs of Broadway and Hollywood were the fodder for several generations worth of standards, so too were the songs that were written in Kentucky, and Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Illinois, California and the rest; wherever the songs were written, if they resonated hard enough, they were sung by many. These too are songs for the American Songbook they inform everything we sing today, and at the same time, they are becoming something different; something that will only get stranger as the slow traffic of time pulls away from the days of milk trains, clocks that chime and the rest of the world that The Everly Brothers and all of us came from. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; With a great spirit of collaboration, support and exaltation, What the Brothers Sang was recorded and mixed by David Ferguson. The songs were played by Emmett Kelley, Dave Roe and Kenny Malone, with featured players Billy Contreras, John Mock, Dan Dugmore, Matt Sweeney, Pete Townsend, John Catchings, Bobby Wood, Joey Miskulin, Nils Frykdahl, Ian McAllister, Joey Baron, Dr. Chris Vivio, and Noah Tag. This is as fine a bunch of musicians as can be assembled, and their combined session credits include hundreds and hundreds of records and a stack of number one singles all of which informed their playing of the great Everly Brothers songs included on What the Brothers Sang. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt; & quot;...a lovingly crafted, laid-back collection of songs from the vaults of the Everly Brothers that are as respectful as they are idiosyncratic. & quot; & lt;/b & gt; -James Christopher Monger, allmusic.com & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Features: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; Vinyl LP & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Selections: & lt;br & gt; Side One: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 1. Breakdown & lt;br & gt; 2. Empty Boxes & lt;br & gt; 3. Milk Train & lt;br & gt; 4. What Am I Living For & lt;br & gt; 5. My Little Yellow Bird & lt;br & gt; 6. Devoted To You & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Side Two: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 1. Somebody Help Me & lt;br & gt; 2. So Sad & lt;br & gt; 3. Omaha & lt;br & gt; 4. It's All Over & lt;br & gt; 5. Poems, Prayers & amp; Promises & lt;br & gt; 6. Just What I Was Looking For & lt;br & gt; 7. Kentucky
Joanna Newsom Divers 180g 2LP (Vinyl)
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& lt;font color= & quot;#FF0000 & quot; & gt; & lt;b & gt;Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2015- Rated 29/50! & lt;/b & gt; & lt;/font & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;font color= & quot;#FF0000 & quot; & gt; & lt;b & gt;180g Vinyl Double LP! & lt;/b & gt; & lt;/font & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; A round, a chant, an incantation...from the flight of the first whippoorwill to the departure of the last nighthawk, Divers is a wholly engaging, encompassingly lyrical body of song and thought and love and life and playful and personal music in space. Melodiating on the passages of time and life and the abstract ways in which they moves within us, Joanna has rendered a cycle of highly charged musical moments that resonate and sound like no other. In other words, just another Joanna Newsom album! Divers is a single album, spread over the dual-vinyl format for sweet-sounding reasons. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt;
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& lt;b & gt;Features: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 180g Double LP & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Selections: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 1. Anecdotes & lt;br & gt; 2. Sapokanikan & lt;br & gt; 3. Leaving The City & lt;br & gt; 4. Goose Eggs & lt;br & gt; 5. Waltz of the 101st Lightborne & lt;br & gt; 6. The Things I Say & lt;br & gt; 7. Divers & lt;br & gt; 8. Same Old Man & lt;br & gt; 9. You Will Not Take My Heart Alive & lt;br & gt; 10. A Pin-Light Bent & lt;br & gt; 11. Time, As A Symptom & lt;br & gt;
Joanna Newsom Ys YS 2LP (Vinyl)
& lt;img src= & quot;/content/images/stereophilerecordstodiefor.jpg & quot; & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; Joanna's 2nd album would be suitable as a soundtrack for an enchanting medieval film filled with dragons and castles. Her squeaky Bjork-like vocals are accompanied by an orchestra along with her harp. Steve Albini and Jim O'Rourke were employed for production and mixing as Van Dyke Parks arranged the orchestral music. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; Ys is an album, an opus, an experience. Don't try to understand, just listen... & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Selections: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 1. Emily & lt;br & gt; 2. Monkey & amp; Bear & lt;br & gt; 3. Sawdust & amp; Diamonds & lt;br & gt; 4. Only Skin & lt;br & gt; 5. Cosmia
Bonnie Prince Billy Best Troubador 2LP (Vinyl)
& lt;font color= & quot;#FF0000 & quot; & gt; & lt;b & gt;Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Covers Merle Haggard! & lt;br & gt; Double LP! & lt;/b & gt; & lt;/font & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; With Best Troubador, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy pays homage to a long-time and forever hero, the late Merle Haggard. A singer who, some 25 years previously, first performed in public by playing a Merle Haggard song, Bonnie has often cited Merle's work in performance, on records and in conversation with anyone who was around, even talking to Merle himself for Filter magazine in 2009. Merle's body of work was considered by Bonnie for a record such as this for some time, but his passing in April of 2016 almost put a stop to it. The goal was to participate in the handing forward of the songs of a living legend, as Merle had done so many times in his own career. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; Writing for Juan and Only in 2012, Bonnie put it this way: & lt;b & gt; & quot;Merle Haggard is a channeler who has paid ample tribute to those that came before him. He has demonstrated explicitly and implicitly his standing on the shoulders of Tommy Duncan/Bob Wills, Jimmie Rodgers, Floyd Tillman, Lefty Frizzell and many others. There are songs in his catalogue that seep solidly into the headspace of Kentuckians who grew up when I did, and beyond through his vast influence on the George Straits, Dwight Yoakams, Alan Jacksons, John Andersons, Toby Keiths, and too many others. He is not the original, but he may be the most significant junction. & quot; & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; With Merle gone, some of the impetus of the project was in peril. A plan to make the album in Nashville studios was abandoned. The songs still called to be played again, however - and so sessions were endeavored at home, capturing feeling, memory and new expression in familiar confines with the full-hearted playing and singing of the Bonafide United Musicians: Van Campbell, Nuala Kennedy, Danny Kiley, Drew Miller, Cheyenne Mize, and Chris Rodahoffer, with special guests Mary Feiock, Emmett Kelly, A.J. Roach and Matt Sweeney. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; The songs sung on Best Troubador are pulled from all over - from Haggard's third album in 1967 through to his 47th in 2011 - but this is no simple hits compilation. Capable only of occupying a shared space between himself and Merle Haggard, Bonnie chose personal favorites, singing the songs he wanted to sing, to find Merle and himself together in the music. Only two of Hag's thirty-eight (!) country number ones are included, and only two others that charted at all. Seven of the sixteen songs are from his later period, after his long run at the top of the country charts had ended, but before encroaching mortality could finally cease the singular and indefatigable creativity of Merle Haggard. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; Best Troubador flips through his song book, landing on pages unmoored from their time and located anew. Moving from 1978 to 1969 to 2003 to 1981 allows the album to circle Haggard's music in a simulation of thought and memory, slipping around from spot to spot as if they were discrete impressions, unknown but knowable yet. Dedicated to new life and old, Best Troubador is wistful and bittersweet and no lament at all, but a tribute instead, for the triumph of a life spent in unending pursuit of the goal: new and expressive music, as our inspirations and heroes once sang it. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; If we could fly through the songbook of ol' Hag, we could come up with a thousand different ways to go down the mighty road he walked in his long life making records. But none would be as sweet and stalwart as ol' Bonnie's. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Features: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; Vinyl LP & lt;br & gt; Double LP & lt;br & gt; Limited time MP3 full album download code & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Musicians: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; Bonnie & quot;Prince & quot; Billy & lt;br & gt; Van Campbell, drumming & lt;br & gt; Nuala Kennedy, singing and fluting & lt;br & gt; Danny Kiely, bassing & lt;br & gt; Drew Miller, saxing & lt;br & gt; Cheyenne Mize, fiddling & lt;br & gt; Chris Rodahaffer, guitaring and banjoing & lt;br & gt; Mary Feiock, singing & lt;br & gt; Emmett Kelly, electric guitaring and singing & lt;br & gt; A.J. Roach, acoustic guitaring and singing & lt;br & gt; Matt Sweeney, acoustic guitaring and singing & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Selections: & lt;br & gt; Side One: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 1.The Fugitive & lt;br & gt; 2. I'm Always On A Mountain When I Fall & lt;br & gt; 3. The Day The Rains Came & lt;br & gt; 4. Haggard (Like I've Never Been Before) & lt;br & gt; 5. I Always Get Lucky With You & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Side Two: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 1. Leonard & lt;br & gt; 2. My Old Pal & lt;br & gt; 3. Roses In The Winter & lt;br & gt; 4. Some Of Us Fly & lt;br & gt; 5. Wouldn't That Be Something & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Side Three: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 1. Pray & lt;br & gt; 2. That's The Way Love Goes & lt;br & gt; 3. Nobody's Darling & lt;br & gt; 4. What I Hate (excerpt) & lt;br & gt; 5. I Am What I Am & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Side Four: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 1. If I Could Only Fly
Jim O'Rourke The Visitor LP (Vinyl)
& lt;b & gt; & lt;font color= & quot;#FF0000 & quot; & gt;Michael Fremer Rated 10/10 Music, 10/10 Sonics in his March 2010 reviews on musicangle.com! & lt;/font & gt; & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt; & lt;font color= & quot;#FF0000 & quot; & gt;Stereophile Recording of the Month, October 2009! Four stars for Performance and Four stars for Sonics! & lt;/font & gt; & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;font color= & quot;#FF0000 & quot; & gt;Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the January 2010 Issue of Stereophile! & lt;/font & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; Breaking loose from self-satisfied exile, Jim O'Rourke returns to pop life with the follow-through to Bad Timing. A musical stretching of limbs, The Visitor sends out classic vibrations, which, hopefully, will be broadcast via radio to speak to Jim's people. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; The Visitor is a & quot;Bad Timing & quot;-like trip through ever-changing instrumental pastures. Thats right, you hungry mini-masses: no vocals but instead, the sounds of ORourke capering about from idea to idea, enriching his inspirations by playing every instrument on the record and mixing it all for maximum laughs and maximum tears. Theres a bit of something for everyones ears on The Visitor, a forty-minute fun ride that will appeal to the sentimentalist as well as the futurist. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; In 2000, O'Rourke joined Wilco and helped engineer Yankee Hotel Foxtrot then, in 2004, produced their Grammy winning 2004 album & quot;A Ghost Is Born & quot;. He then teamed up with Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche to form the group Loose Fur. & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt; & quot;...what is here may be one of the most coherent musical compositions he's recorded. Supposedly the culmination of 200 separate recording tracks, this 38-minute tone poem of sorts moves from moody and ruminative, in its early sections of unaccompanied acoustic guitar, to a layered blossoming, a tingly, shimmering mini-orchestra in full if repetitive flight of jittery cymbals, jaunty snare drum, repeated banjo figures, keyboard flourishes, and electronic flutes and saxophones that rise in a crescendo before falling away to a beautiful yet very simple piano melody backed by electronics. It is one of O'Rourke's least guarded - if not bull-blown sentimental - moments ever captured on tape. & quot; & lt;/b & gt; - Robert Baird, Stereophile, Vol. 32, No. 11, pg. 129 & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt; & quot;...The Visitor is a fine, resonant, genial interlude in a varied career surely destined for more exclusive, unconformable surprise. & quot; & lt;/b & gt; - Robert Baird, Stereophile, Vol. 32, No. 11, pg. 129 & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;font color= & quot;00008B & quot; & gt; & lt;b & gt;Fremer Rated 10 out of 10 for Music, 9 out of 10 for Sound! & lt;/b & gt; & lt;/font & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt; & quot;ORourkes compositional and arranging skills plus the superb sound and packaging make this easily one of last years finest and most rewarding albums. It demands a quiet pressing and even the pressing plant cooperated. Really, dont miss this, I dont care what your musical tastes are. & quot; & lt;/b & gt;- Michael Fremer, Music Angle, Music 10/10, Sound 10/10 & lt;br & gt; & lt;a href= & quot;http://musicangle.com/album.php?id=834 & quot; & gt; & lt;b & gt; & lt;font color= & quot;#0000FF & quot; & gt;Click Here to read the entire review! & lt;/font & gt; & lt;/b & gt; & lt;/a & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt;Features: & lt;br & gt; Vinyl LP & lt;br & gt; Gatefold jacket & lt;br & gt; & lt;br & gt; & lt;b & gt;Selections: & lt;/b & gt; & lt;br & gt; 1. The Visitor
Burning Kingdom
Four vignettes of concentrated sadness, Burning Kingdom has to be one of the darkest-sounding EPs released in the late 20th century. Particularly effective is the haunting Rene Died, which pits Cynthia Dall s frail voice against brittle acoustic guitars. ~ Heather Phares, All Music GuideUPC:036172904129SKU:ADIB0000019PW
