dime in the gutter wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:09 pm

^^^nice double play of drop d tuners.

cortez the killer wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:19 pm

tinnitus photography wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 29, 2022 3:52 pm

cortez the killer wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:19 pm

hey CtK have you checked out Sky-Green Leopards at all? it's the same guy who is now doing The Reds, Pinks and Purples.

The album’s three discs are divided into “Hallelujah,” “Jubilee” and “Joyful Noise.” “Hallelujah,” the most elemental of the pack, offers lean arrangements that allow Childers’ expert touring band, the Food Stamps, to join him in the studio. “Jubilee” pumps up the production, employing strings, brass and, at one point, sitar to upsize the songs. “Joyful Noise” is a record of remixes, a tripped-out scrapbook of beats, blurred melodies and sampled voices (ranging from Andy Griffith to Thomas Merton to Jerry Clower) that purposely strays from the songs’ compositional designs.

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The “Hallelujah” version is a rich, roots-savvy romp topped by suitably churchy B3 fills. The “Jubilee” version ups the jubilation with horns that recall Allen Toussaint’s regal brass arrangements for The Band’s “Rock of Ages” while the rhythmic drive brings to mind vintage Little Feat with a touch of Leon Russell piano flair. Then there is the “Joyful Noise” remix, which opens with bits of homespun conversation before easing into a hip-hop-leaning beat colored by bits of brassy synth that downshifts to where the organ takes on a funereal mood.

https://www.kentucky.com/entertainment/ ... rylink=cpy

It's split up into three acts, each featuring different versions of the same songs: the Jubilee portion fleshes the songs out with strings, horns, backing vocals, dulcimer, mbira, sitar, and more; the Hallelujah version is just the core band recording live in studio; and the Joyful Noise version is an avant-garde reworking of the songs that renders them nearly unrecognizable from the Jubilee and Hallelujah versions. If you're thinking "do I really need to hear three different versions of the same songs?" I don't blame you, but Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? is much less redundant than it seems on paper. Jubilee is the kind of big, fleshed-out, immaculately-produced album you could see coming out of the early '70s album-oriented rock era. It pulls from a variety of styles of American music (country, rock, blues, gospel-soul, etc), and the massive arrangements make it sound like something that would fit in on The Last Waltz. Meanwhile, the live-in-studio Jubilee version finds The Food Stamps busting out the kinds of jams that the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers gravitated towards in that same era. The songs are the same, but the interpretations are so different that it never feels like listening to the same album twice in a row. And again, the Joyful Noise version feels like a different album entirely.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/yeah-yeah ... d-reviews/

cortez the killer wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:27 am

tinnitus photography wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 29, 2022 3:52 pm

cortez the killer wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:19 pm

hey CtK have you checked out Sky-Green Leopards at all? it's the same guy who is now doing The Reds, Pinks and Purples.

I haven't. Is Disciples of California a good place to start?

tinnitus photography wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 30, 2022 10:47 am

cortez the killer wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:27 am

tinnitus photography wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 29, 2022 3:52 pm

hey CtK have you checked out Sky-Green Leopards at all? it's the same guy who is now doing The Reds, Pinks and Purples.

I haven't. Is Disciples of California a good place to start?

i don't have that one... i have a few of the early CDRs and the last two LPs. i think they have a pretty consistent sound so jump in wherever!

tinnitus photography wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:41 pm

i can't believe i went to two shows w/ CtK in less than a week and didn't see him.

Clams wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:46 am