Artist: Karl Blau
Album: Introducing Karl Blau
Bitrate: 235kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Bella Union
Genre: Country
Size: 72.47 megs
PlayTime: 0h 40min 50sec total
Rip Date: 2017-02-12
Store Date: 2016-00-00
Track List:
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01. That's How I Got To Memphis 4:03
02. Six White Horses 2:41
03. Fallin' Rain 9:38
04. Let the World Go By 3:44
05. If I Needed You 3:54
06. Woman, Sensuous Woman 3:24
07. Dreaming My Dreams 2:50
08. To Love Somebody 3:21
09. Homecoming 3:24
10. No Regrets 3:51
Release Notes:
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Blau is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and DIY icon who helped turn his
hometown of Anacortes, Washington, into an indie-music mecca. He has released
more than 40 records in 20-odd years, many self-released in handmade packaging
and mailed to subscribers, and others on iconic indie Northwest labels K and
knw-yr-own. Blau has also toured and recorded for years with Laura Veirs, The
Microphones, Little Wings, D+, and Earth. Martine, known for his distinctive
production work on music by My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists, and Laura
Veirs, recalled first being introduced by Veirs to Blau's early music. "I was
transfixed by Karl's voice and completely absorbed by the world of sound he had
created. I felt like I had been shown one of the great hidden treasures of
music." A few years later, Martine recorded an instrumental version of "That's
How I Got to Memphis," the 1969 Tom T. Hall hit. Blau, whom Tucker had come to
know in sessions with Laura Veirs among others, asked if he could try singing
it. The collaboration, pairing Karl's deeply sonorous voice with Martine's warm,
modern arrangements, recast the Nashville hit in a new light. The result was the
single and, now, Introducing Karl Blau. The record, all covers, is a
crate-digger's feast of forgotten hits and deeper cuts, most of them from the
Nashville country-soul renaissance in the late 1960s and early 70s ù Tom T.
Hall, Bobby Bond, Allen Reynolds. Other songs are from the Bee Gees (To Love
Somebody), Link Wray (Fallin' Rain), or Townes Van Zandt (If I Needed You).