Artist: Will Kimbrough
Album: Sideshow Love
Bitrate: 231kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Blue Rose Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 87.85 megs
PlayTime: 0h 50min 30sec total
Rip Date: 2014-07-08
Store Date: 2014-06-13
Track List:
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01. When Your Loving Comes Around 4:48
02. Let The Big World Spin 4:16
03. Sideshow Love 3:55
04. Soulfully 3:30
05. Home Economics 3:18
06. I Want Too Much 4:40
07. Dance Like Grownups Dance 3:50
08. Has Anybody Seen My Heart 3:58
09. I Can Count On You 5:20
10. All We Can Do Is Love 3:47
11. Who Believes In You 4:39
12. Emotion Sickness 4:29
Release Notes:
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Think of Will Kimbrough as the Sherlock Holmes of songwriting ù a sharp-eyed
observer of humanity who notes every detail and spares nothing in his analysis.
His new case study is Sideshow Love a dozen songs that play out like a
collection of smartly crafted short stories, laden with generous melodies and
arrangements that balance virtuoso playing with just the right amount of space
to let each of the characters within them breathe.
The theme is a familiar one: love. But whatÆs novel is the telling. KimbroughÆs
perspective shifts effortlessly between sharp- and misty-eyed, from laughter to
tears, as he weaves an arc through the stages of a romance over his eighth solo
releaseÆs course.
Kimbrough found the axis for Sideshow Love in the song ôHome Economics,ö a
cynical, tongue-in-cheek take on the differences between men and women inspired
by a friendÆs divorce. The tune employs a 1920s New Orleans string band jazz
sound conjured by KimbroughÆs banjo and slide guitar and Paul GriffithÆs dusty
snare drum. Lisa Oliver Gray, who completes the albumÆs core trio, adds her
sweet ænÆ salty voice to the mix.
Kimbrough had accumulated those songs while he was authoring a new chapter in
his distinguished history as a sideman, playing guitar in Americana icon Emmylou
HarrisÆ band. HeÆs also accompanied such songwriting luminaries as Rodney
Crowell, Kim Richey and his longtime friend and accomplice Todd Snider ù all the
while never letting his own pen-craft lag.
As Kimbrough assembled Sideshow LoveÆs tunes, musical themes began emerging,
too. ôThe songs I was culling combined elements of blues and country, and there
was a vein of soul music running through a lot of them, which all made sense to
me, because IÆve always been eclectic and I enjoy those styles a lot. Between
that music and the Beatles is where I usually gravitate.ö
Kimbrough produced and recorded most of the album in his home studio, which heÆs
primarily used for demos in the past. He played acoustic and electric guitars,
banjo and mandolin. In addition to kit drums, Paul Griffith added Indian clay
pot to ôLet the Big World Spin,ö a smoldering riff-mad blues about lust and sex.
Griffith is a frequent collaborator of KimbroughÆs who has played on all of his
albums since 2006Æs Americanitis and a fellow member of the band DADDY. He has
also joined Kimbrough on stage or in the studio with Harris, Snider and many
others. Lisa Oliver Gray, who completes the albumÆs core trio, lends her sweet
ænÆ salty voice to the mix. And Chris Donohue, who is also a member of HarrisÆ
band, added bass to ôWhen Your Loving Comes Aroundö and ôI Want Too Much.ö