ARTiST: Tom Brosseau
TiTLE: Grand Forks
LABEL: Loveless Records
GENRE: Folk
TiME: 33:51 min
SiZE: 35,7 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jan-16-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jan-23-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. I Fly Wherever I Go 02:59
02. Fork In The Road 02:54
(With John Doe Feat. Hilary Hahn)
03. There's More Than One Way To Dance 02:43
04. Blue Part Of The Windshield 04:03
(Feat. Hilary Hahn)
05. Down On Skidrow 02:54
06. Here Comes The Water Now 03:42
07. Plaid Lined Jacket 04:20
08. Dark And Shiny Gun 04:12
09. 97 Flood 06:04
Release Notes:
"He's got the plain-spoken directness of Hank
Williams Sr. and a delicate way of phrasing that
sometimes recalls Billie Holiday." - NPR, ALL THINGS
CONSIDERED
"The voice is unmistakably in its own class--a high,
plaintive, almost feminine cry--and the beautifully
sparse songs sound as if they could've fit on Harry
Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music." - Chicago
Tribune, The Year's Best Recordings: Pop Music
"Brosseau has captured the sparse intimacy of
old-school country and folk: you could play some of
his less-embellished songs and easily convince
someone they were recorded fifty years ago." - TIME
OUT NY
Tom Brosseau has a voice that has been called
totally earthbound and at the same time "sorta out
there." With his new album, Grand Forks, Brosseau
speaks of his hometown in North Dakota, of the
people there, of convulsions of nature, and of
survival.
For Grand Forks, Brosseau worked with his producer
Gregory Page and recorded at the Maybellaine garage
in San Diego as well as in Venice and La Mesa. John
Doe, of the great LA punk band X, co-produced and
sings on "Fork in the Road." Grammy-winning
violinist Hilary Hahn is featured on "Fork in the
Road" and the stunning "Blue Part of the
Windshield." Also, both the former Mayor of Grand
Forks and the former Governor of North Dakota share
some words in the liner notes.
Grand Forks is about the great flood of 1997,
homelessness, the love of the sound of the fabulous
fifties, Les Paul and Mary Ford, traveling, and
keeping the direct sunlight out of your face on the
freeway.