Loma Prieta - Last - VINYL LP

Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes . 2019 . The Mountain Goats are John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, and Matt Douglas. They have been making music together as a quartet for several years. Three of them live in North Carolina and one has moved back to Rochester. Their songs often seek out dark lairs within which terrible monsters dwell, but their mission is to retrieve the treasure from the dark lair and persuade the terrible monsters inside to seek out the path of redemption. As Axl Rose once memorably asked, in the song InchTerrible MonsterInch Inchwhat's so terrible about monsters, anyway?Inch This is the question The Mountain Goats have been doggedly pursuing since 1991. They will never leave off this quest until every option has been exhausted.

2014 , a jazz piano tribute to Tony Bennett featuring Beegie Adair with the Jeff Steinberg Orchestra. Born in Cave City, Kentucky, a small farming community of 1,400 residents, Beegie Adair (pronounced B-G) grew up avidly listening to music. Adair serves as adjunct professor in jazz studies at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music and currently teaches singers repertoire at the Nashville Jazz Workshop. Beegie credits as her main influences Jimmy Jones, George Shearing, Teddy Wilson, Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, and Russ.

Dublin-born, thirty years an immigrant. That's the spine of henryohenry's debut, Apocrypha, not as a concept but as a condition. InchIreland is the DNA of the thing,Inch he says, Inchthe thing before every other thing.Inch He's spent three decades in the United States working in the trades, absorbing the country's mythologies and building what he calls Inchan idiosyncratic American languageInch out of them, something closer to Whitman's vision than what he found.He is, by his own account, Inchformally and informally not a musician.Inch A childhood nylon-string guitar, a few chords learned, and not much else until 2019, when his brother handed him a $6 charity-shop guitar with a repaired headstock and low strings that distorted unpredictably. All but two of the songs on Apocrypha were written on it. It doesn't appear on the record.The songs came with a kind of finality. InchI wrote them for myself,Inch he says, Inchand was certain every song was the last one.Inch It was filmmaker Rick Alverson, a longtime friend who produced the sessions, who convinced him they could stand together as something. They do.Guitarist Eamon O'Leary (his brother) and Ned Steves (his son) play most of the album, recording together for the first time, without rehearsal. Their instinct is at once precise and open, parts that feel discovered rather than placed, deepening the harmonic language without disturbing the clarity of the songs. Erik Hall mixed and contributed overdubs; Emilie Rex of Lean Year lends luminous harmonies to three songs; poet Callie Garnett appears on another. The arrangements grew in the room, the lyrics and melodies arriving intact, the music unfolding around them.The title does what ohenry likes it's slippery. Apocrypha suggests disputed texts, hidden books, stories that may or may not be true. InchIt suggests I might not be telling the truth,Inch he says, Inchbut also,