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| | | family vineyard (usa) #fv 60 cd john terrill “frowny frown” compact disc - the worst (that comes out of me)
- forgive & forget
- angeline
- faces of my past
- blind
- i-65
- melancholy mary
- keep it here
- squeaky wheel
- ain’t no folk singer
- heart in mind
- floyd
- church bus blues
- rotten old
- shack
- stoney mansion
- i’ll follow in time
- locked in your heart
- lazy day
- i fell [bonus track]
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "i-65" |
| | july 2008 release ; 60s-leaning bedroom pop from former dancing cigarette john terrill ... |
| | family vineyard press release... |
| john terrill
frowny frown
fv60 cd
between 1988 and 1998, john terrill (co-founder of the late '70s new/no wave dancing cigarettes) recorded this album and made a few copies for close friends and for mailing to musical heroes. in another era it could have stood next to scott walker or michael hurley's early albums or even randy burns' lps on esp disk. it's an out-of-time classic that mixes honey baked orchestration, acoustic soul, and pop-psychedelia into cracked and spellbinding songs. now reissued for all and remastered with a bonus track from 1984.
| "i feel this album is a little gem. lyrically--a man up against it (frowny frown) as opposed to (smiley smile), but still leaning towards humor, kindheartedness, and no bitterness within the adversity. a very feeling album and all kinds of sonically interesting things. the kind of direction brian wilson might even have taken himself if his own circumstances had been different. beach boys meet mothers of invention. it has, then, the simplicity, innocence, and at the same time the musical innovation of the beach boys, plus the other side of the coin, the innovation of the mothers of invention. sometimes almost like the shadows or the tornadoes performing at a 1960 wedding reception, and then sonic blasts and great instrumentation and arrangements peppered throughout. a musician who seems to have absorbed all kinds of previous things, and then created his own very original and absorbing album." -- bill fay, march 2008 |
the transparent velum packaging mirrors the handful of homemade copies john originally issued.
released july 22, 2008. |
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