Artist: Easton Stagger Phillips
Album: Resolution Road
Bitrate: 243kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Blue Rose Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 65.59 megs
PlayTime: 0h 35min 49sec total
Rip Date: 2014-07-08
Store Date: 2014-06-13
Track List:
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01. Always Came Back To You 3:39
02. Traveller 3:01
03. Stay 3:24
04. Lucillia 3:51
05. Life Of Crime 3:57
06. So Much In Tune 3:21
07. Hwy Is My Home 3:09
08. Those Good Times (LMSU) 4:14
09. Begin 3:24
10. Baby Come Home 3:49
Release Notes:
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In the winter of 2008, Tim Easton (Nashville, TN), Leeroy Stagger (Lethbridge,
AB), and Evan Phillips (Anchorage, AK) set up a recording studio in an Alaskan
cabin. The three contemporary troubadours wanted to capture a sound that
contained the smoke of the bonfire and the steady, honest manifesto of the front
porch stomp. The result was a full length album, One For The Ditch, and the
beginning of a new band, EASTON STAGGER PHILLIPS.
ESP released One For The Ditch in the fall of 2008, touring Alaska as well as
Ireland and Europe. After the tour, the members went their separate ways, each
of them focusing on their respective solo and band careers.
Four years passed, and even with their personal and professional lives getting
busier by the year, the band decided it was time to make their sophomore album.
Ideas and demos were exchanged, and a recording date was set. The new batch of
songs would be a departure from One For The Ditch's low key feel, and the band
made a commitment to push themselves, and each other, into new artistic
territory.
Resolution Road is a genre-blending suitcase of 10 classic-sounding folk and
rock songs. ESP's evolution from their first to second album is notable as
Resolution Road features layered vocal harmonies, drums, electric bass, piano,
organ, and electric guitars. The outcome is a very nuanced and tastefully
produced set of tunes that takes listeners on a sonic road trip.
From the massive opening harmonies of Phillips' "Always Came Back To Me" through
the road-worn vocal delivery of Stagger's "Life Of Crime" to Easton's poignant
album closer "Baby Come Home", Resolution Road is the unexpected journey you
take when combining the styles of three veteran songwriters.