Artist: Richmond Fontaine
Album: The High Country
Bitrate: 227kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: El Cortez
Genre: Rock
Size: 85.18 megs
PlayTime: 0h 49min 18sec total
Rip Date: 2011-12-13
Store Date: 2011-09-20
Track List:
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01. Inventory 3:31
02. The Girl on the Logging Road 1:46
03. The Chainsaw Sea 4:23
04. Let Me Dream of the High 2:13
Country
05. The Mechanic Falls in Love with 1:35
the Girl
06. The Mechanic's Life 3:16
07. Angus King Tries to Leave the 3:16
House
08. The Meeting on the Logging Road 1:44
09. Claude Murray's Breakdown 3:22
10. The Eagles Lodge 3:14
11. Driving Back to the Chainsaw 1:22
Sea
12. Lost in the Trees 3:36
13. On a Spree 2:40
14. Deciding to Run 2:48
15. I Can See a Room 2:33
16. The Escape 3:30
17. Leaving 4:29
Release Notes:
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Richmond Fontaine's tenth studio album, The High Country, tells an operatically
tragic tale. Songwriter and novelist Willy Vlautin has written an
extraordinarily eccentric album like no other. More than a concept record, The
High Country is a song-novel: a fully realized, novel-sized story set to music.
Set in a rural logging community in Oregon, The High Country is a Gothic love
story between a mechanic and an auto parts store counter girl, whose secret love
inspires an effort to escape the darkness of the world that surrounds them --
drugs, violence, madness, loneliness, and desperation set against a backdrop of
endless logging roads and the remains of a forest brutalized by logging. In this
story of light vs. dark, Vlautin has woven a tale where screw-ups and freaks
demonize the lives of innocents.
The High Country features Richmond Fontaine members Dan Eccles (guitar), Dave
Harding (bass, guitar, vocals), Sean Oldham (percussion, keyboards, guitar,
vocals) and Willy Vlautin (vocals, guitar) joined by The Damnations' Deborah
Kelly (lead vocals on four songs) and Fontaine regulars Paul Brainard (pedal
steel), Ralph Huntley (keyboards, accordion) and Collin Oldham (cello,
cellomobo). Producer and film scorer John Askew brings his knack for creating
atmosphere and sonic depth to the record.