2005-03-01
Impressive.The songs have a sort of distant, aged feel to them, as if they'd be playing when you walked into an abandoned building in a ghost town. They're like an old-fashioned folk-pop, if there is such a thing.
Cleverly, the record is dedicated to "the last of the independent & open format community radio". How did he know we'd go for that?
12 original tunes and covers that include Brian Wilson's "You Still Believe in Me", The Carter Family's "Oh Take Me Back" and a hushed album-closing take on J.S. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier".
TARA NEVINS
Wood and Stone
FEIST
Look At What The Light Did Now
Joanna Newsom
The Milk-Eyed Mender
RAINI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM
Big Old Life
Kris Kristofferson
The Austin Session
THE BALLROOM THIEVES
The Devil & The Deep
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