Beaverdam wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:06 pm

Thoughts on the new album???

Clams wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:46 am

For anyone trying to figure out what the deal is with the 3 different versions of this record:

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.

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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/

Iowan wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:35 pm

The Joyful Noise disc is pointless. I think it exists to expose people that automatically praise anything that’s a complete curve ball as genius.

The other two versions are fucking brilliant.

Jonicont wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 04, 2022 6:12 am

Iowan wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:35 pm

The Joyful Noise disc is pointless. I think it exists to expose people that automatically praise anything that’s a complete curve ball as genius.

The other two versions are fucking brilliant.

That sums it up

Mundane Mayhem wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:46 am

Really digging the songs. Did not care for Country Squire so this is a welcome return to form.

I think for the most part I tend to like Hallelujah versions the most, but there are a couple (Angel Band comes to mind) where the Jubilee embellishments kick it up a notch.

The most obnoxious thing about Joyful Noise is that I would probably buy this on vinyl, and still may, but the added cost of a third disc I'll never play chaps my ass.

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:21 pm

Yeah I have all of them on vinyl already so that means I will get this one on vinyl, too. Even if I never even play all three.

Mundane Mayhem wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:57 am

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:21 pm

Yeah I have all of them on vinyl already so that means I will get this one on vinyl, too. Even if I never even play all three.

Yeah, who am I kidding? I’m for sure gonna buy it after I hem and haw for a while, for show.

Beaverdam wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:47 pm

“If I can’t take my hounds to heavens, if I can’t hunt on God’s land I’d rather load my dog box and go to hell with all my friends” is kind of genius on my book!

I’m from rural Virginia where hunting with dogs is very much a part of culture. I was never a hunter, but I was alway “around” hunting. My Papa, the man for whom I named my son, was a coon hunter!

I’m not sure the exact verse but I’m pretty sure it’s inspired from a story in the Bhagavad Gita.
“The dog must come with me,” said Yudhisthira
“That is not possible,” said Indra. “All cannot attain heaven. The dog is old and thin and has no value.”
“In that case, I do not seek heaven, “replied Yudhisthira. “The dog was my faithful companion and I cannot abandon it. It sought my help and gave me unconditional love. The pleasures of heaven will mean nothing to me in comparison to its grief. It has done nothing to deserve abandonment and had none of the weaknesses of my wife and brothers. If it does not deserve to go to heaven, then neither do I.” And so he turned back.
https://dogwithblog.in/story-of-yudhist ... I_zm020jJQ

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 14, 2022 2:43 pm

https://youtu.be/y9x0Myp9sBE
My favorite Tyler song, with an assist from Chris Stapleton.

chuckrh wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 3:43 pm

Childers is ok but DBT vastly outshines him. Hopefully DBT kicks his ass when they open.

Clams wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:00 pm

chuckrh wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 3:43 pm

Childers is ok but DBT vastly outshines him. Hopefully DBT kicks his ass when they open.

I'm not so sure about that Chuck.

Clams wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:00 pm

chuckrh wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 3:43 pm

Childers is ok but DBT vastly outshines him. Hopefully DBT kicks his ass when they open.

I'm not so sure about that Chuck.

beantownbubba wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:11 pm

I don't know what the numbers say, but I have to admit I'm pretty damned surprised that DBT is opening for Childers.

chuckrh wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:39 pm

The way things are going, my time is far more finite than most here. I haven't given up but it's getting really hard to keep my shit together & keep fighting. I'm in a really rugged phase right now. Just started a really nasty chemo (again) & it looks like there may be some major surgery coming on my spine soon. I have to roll the dice on that one as I have no desire to continue from a wheelchair. At a certain point I just have to say "no mas". I'm wore out.
PS: sorry if I went off earlier in this. It's been a hellacious week.

Clams wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 11, 2022 8:18 am

Getting back on point, in terms of current status in the music marketplace or whatever, Childers is way bigger than the Truckers these days and I don't think it's really close. Bigger crowds, more fanfare, more press, a newer/younger vibe, and if we're being honest, better records. Plus they're still up and coming. To be clear, none of this is meant as draggage against DBT. (I bet P Hood would agree with the above)

Also, too bad DBT is only opening one show for Tyler. I remember him posting a year or so ago that Pizza Deliverance was one of the soundtracks of his youth and that DBT was a major influence on him. That's gonna be a REALLY bitchin double bill.

Jonicont wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 11, 2022 7:53 am

beantownbubba wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:11 pm

I don't know what the numbers say, but I have to admit I'm pretty damned surprised that DBT is opening for Childers.

He consistently sells out 10,000+ venues

Bill in CT wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 11, 2022 9:30 am

Also, Tyler Childers fans are the most obnoxious fans of a good artist I have experienced