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- Genre: Folk
- Description: It was in Vermont's rural backcountry - the woods, mountains, and fields that surround his family's organic farm - that Kris Gruen began writing his fifth studio album, Welcome Farewell. "I felt like a naturalist," says the alt-folk songwriter, who had spent much of the previous decade on the road, strumming his songs to crowds on both sides of the Atlantic. "For a traveling musician, it can be rare to choose a place in the world where you can put down your roots in the most concrete of ways. I now have a genuine, physical commitment to home - to the farm that my family built from scratch, where my wife grows Brussels sprouts and my grandmother is buried. It was while hiking in the nearby woods - not away from home, but just on the outskirts of it - that I found the reflection needed to write about the place I was in. When you remove yourself from your daily life, you can write about that daily life more genuinely."Welcome Farewell finds Kris Gruen spinning autobiographical stories of family, community, and the great outdoors. It's a memoir of sorts, filled with names, places, and other details sourced from his own experience. Gruen has always been a storyteller, but he's rarely been this personal before. The central characters who occupy Welcome Farewell's songs are real people - including his late grandmother, whose influence is honored with tracks like "Apple Tree" and the cinematically-arranged "Skyline Drive," to his wife, who invites her husband to join her in the fields during "When She Says" - and they lend an earnestness to an album laced with acoustic guitar, swooning pedal steel, and other organic touches. Produced by longtime collaborator Charles Newman (Magnetic Fields, The Bones of J.R. Jones, Kate Vargas), Welcome Farewell does more than evoke the white pine forests, stream beds, and family relationships that punctuate Gruen's existence in Vermont. A co
- Artist: Kris Gruen
- Title: Welcome Farewell
- Format: VINYL
- Label: Mother West
- Release Date: 01/07/2022
- Genre: Folk
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- Product Name: Kris Gruen - Welcome Farewell - VINYL LP
- UPC: 750958011442
