ARTIST: Eric Bachmann
TITLE: To The Races
LABEL: Saddle Creek
GENRE: Folk
BITRATE: 177kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 38min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-08-22
RIP DATE: 2006-07-12
Track List
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01. Man O' War 6:24
02. Home 4:01
03. Carrboro Woman 5:23
04. Genivieve 3:54
05. Genie, Genie 2:43
06. Lonesome Warrior 2:42
07. To The Races 2:08
08. Liars And Thieves 4:00
09. Little Bird 3:31
10. So Long, Savannah 3:19
Release Notes:
Eric Bachmann will release To The Races on August 22nd on
Saddle Creek Records. The release marks the first time
Bachmann has chosen to release an album under his own name.
Recording under the moniker Crooked Fingers since 2000,
Bachmann has released four albums of charmingly
melancholic music that have earned him a reputation as
arguably one of the finest singer-songwriters to emerge in
recent years.
Markedly different than 2005's highly praised and most
immediately accessible Crooked Fingers' release Dignity
and Shame (Merge) - which received 4-star reviews from
Details and Maxim, while "(giving the) stale
singer-songwriter consortium a nice kick in the pants"
(Alternative Press) - To The Races is as skeletally spare
as it is insightful and restrained. It is fitting that
Bachmann chose such an austere album as the first Eric
Bachmann solo release: no pretenses, no pseudonyms, no
ornamentation - qualities that also mirror the album's
writing and recording process: To The Races was mainly
written in the summer of 2005 while Bachmann voluntarily
chose to live in the back of his touring van.
After making the best of the hospitable Northwestern
summer by setting up home and shop in his vehicle,
Bachmann waited until December to record To The Races in
only a week's time, self-recording its entirety in a
hotel in the Outer Banks town of Buxton, NC. Joined on
only a few songs by Devotchka's violinist Tom Hagerman
and Austin, TX's Miranda Brown on backing vocals, To The
Races is a stunning collection of songs examining both
self-imposed isolation and the search for human
connection.
Eric Bachmann will play a handful of dates in support of
each Neko Case and Calexico in June and embark on a full
co-headlining tour with Richard Buckner in the Fall.