Artist.......: Glorytellers
Album........: Glorytellers
Label........: Southen
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-23-2007
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.geofffarina.com/
track title time
01. Camouflage 03:50
02. Exclusive Hurricanes 04:27
03. Awake At The Wheel 02:59
04. Tears Of... 03:57
05. Quarantine 03:04
06. Blood On The Shine 03:13
07. Anonymous 02:35
08. Trovato Suono 02:48
09. Pry 03:57
10. Perennials 03:36
Runtime 34:26 min
Size 44,3 MB
Release Notes:
The creative force behind Glorytellers is
guitarist/singer/songwriter Geoff Farina, who spent
the better part of 14 years fronting BostonÆs
genre-bending Karate, and as one-half of the
formative lo-fi duo Secret Stars. Gavin McCarthy
(Karate, Cul de Sac), Joshua Larue (Him/Mice
Parade), Luther Gray III (Ida, Joe Morris Trio), Ty
Citerman (Gutbucket), and engineer Andy Hong are
also part of Glorytellers.
Although the band sounds most like Karate, Secret
Stars, and other Farina-related projects,
Glorytellers are undoubtedly a product of the 80Æs
underground music of their adolescence, and their
first loves were bands like the Minutemen, Gray
Matter, Beefeater, Dream Syndicate, Spacemen 3, the
Raincoats, the Fall, Wire, the Smiths, the
Effigies, Squirrel Bait, Crass, Pere Ubu, The Gun
Club, and Killing Joke. Glorytellers songs also
manifest FarinaÆs love for earlier American music,
including the dense ragtime guitar of Blind Blake
and Gary Davis, the earnest blues of Robert Pete
Williams, Geeshie Wiley, Willie Johnson, and Skip
James, the cathartic acoustic music of Roscoe
Holcom, Robbie Basho, Sonny Terry and Brownie
McGee, the narrative songwriting of the Band,
Leonard Cohen, Mose Allison, Merle Haggard, Gram
Parsons, and Bob Dylan, the impressionistic
harmonies of pianists Herbie Nichols, Andrew Hill,
Jelly Roll Morton, Bill Evans, and Abdullah
Ibrahim, and the electric guitar styles of Jim
Hall, Lonnie Johnson, Johnny Smith, Otis Rush,
Grant Green, Link Wray, and Jimmy Bryant.
The name ôGlorytellersö can have positive or
negative denotations. A gloryteller can be one who
recounts resplendence or grandeur, such as someone
who sings about the possibility of a more
egalitarian society, or it can be someone who
proclaims veneration for expired majesty, such as
those who stir up nationalism by trumpeting a vague
and narrow set of values. ôGloryö is also a verb
meaning, ôto take great pride or pleasure in,ö so a
gloryteller can designate someone who takes pride
in narrating.