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01 Lone Star 3:29
02 Dyzfunctional Cuzin 4:25
03 Running Away 3:33
04 Lesson One For Children: Church Steeple1:01
05 Lost Serenade 3:37
06 Old Blood 2:29
07 From The Trapeze 4:02
08 Little Tremors 1:23
09 Virginia 3:18
10 Crawfish River 2:25
11 Lesson Two For Children: Making 1:01
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12 Lesson Three For Children: Listen, 1:08
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13 Laundromat 5:01
14 Lesson For Sisters and Daughters 0:48
.. R I P P E R ' S N O T E S ..
Featuring members of Cursive, Lullaby For the Working Class, and
Bright Eyes.
MAYDAY is the creation of Omaha mainstay Ted Stevens. Bar-None is
pleased to release their second album I Know Your Troubles Been
Long on May 6th, 2003. Ted first became known in the music world
as co-founder of the quiet collective Lullaby For The Working
Class along with Mike Mogis. They disbanded in 1999 and in 2000
Ted joined the hard-rocking Cursive. Although Ted was busy with
Cursive, he never stopped writing his own songs, which he shares
with us in Mayday
"By and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the
bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the
stars and drift logs and rafts that come downthere ain't no
better way to put in time when you are lonesome.'
So said Huck Finn during a brief pause in his legendary
adventures.
Ted Stevens had Mark Twain on his mind when he was recording the
second Mayday album I Know Your Troubles Been Long, and he quotes
those words (and also those of Kafka and Brian Wilson) alongside
his lyrics in the album package. Ted's been having his own Huck
Finn-esque adventures, too, playing guitar and singing background
vocals with Saddlecreek Records' Cursive, and watching his Omaha,
Nebraska hometown scene become the focus of national attention,
as if it were the Brooklyn of the Midwest. Yeah, that was Ted on
the front page of the New York Times Arts & Leisure section,
alongside his Cursive buddies. That was him making faces in
Rolling Stone, too.
I Know Your Troubles Been Long is a respite from all that, a
sit-down in the dark along some metaphorical riverbank, a chance
to take stock of life on the road, the changes at home, the
roiled state of our nation. While Mayday's first album, Old
Blood, was recorded in full Saddlecreek style at Mike Mogis'
Presto Studio in Lincoln, Nebraska, I Know Your Troubles Been
Long is truly a homegrown effort, recorded on an analog 8-track
machine in various living rooms around Omaha with a loose cast of
local characters. The process harkens back to an earlier time
there, when as-yet unheralded musicians swapped tapes, threw
house parties, and found makeshift venues for an ever-changing
roster of bands to play in. The sessions culminated in Ted taking
off on yet another journey: hauling the tape machine into his car
and driving up to Bud Melvin's studio in Chicago to tinker with
the final tracks and mix them down old school-style to analog
two-track.
The result is a collection of ramshackle Americana: haunted
country tunes, broken-hearted barroom blues, and unvarnished
rock. Ted prefers a whisper to a scream; he draws you in like a
new-found confidant, arm around your shoulder, to his stories of
lonesome travelers ("Dyzfunctional Cuzin") wayward kids
("Crawfish River"), lovers in flight ("Virgina"), and family
troubles ("Running Away"). In his previous incarnation as
singer-songwriter for Bar/None band Lullaby For the Working
Class, the harbinger of the Saddlecreek sound, Ted wrote
fascinating, often abstract lyrics for the beautiful, precisely
arranged productions of Mike Mogis. With Mayday, which features
contributions from other Lullaby cohorts too, the mood is
off-the-cuff and pontaneous, but the words are even more
evocative, with powerful emotions coming much closer to the
surface. You can feel the after-effects of all his touring, the
roller coaster of excitement and boredom that fills weeks on the
road. It's in the terse "Lone Star," where the narrator follows a
star in the sky on a trek from Austin to L.A., and the vivid
'From the Trapeze," in which the circus acrobat could just as
well be a rock star at the (literal) end of his rope.
For several years, Ted and his pals have put on a May 1 concert
in Omaha and Mayday takes its name from that annual event. But
Ted appreciates the various meanings of the word - as a passage
to spring, as a day when workers around the world assert their
rights, as an internationally recognized distress call. Renewal,
revolt, danger ahead - you can find a little of each in the songs
and emotions of "I Know Your Troubles Been Long". But most of all
you'll hear a still-pioneering artist at his most forthright and
heartfelt, playing with his oldest buddies in the place he still
calls home.
There ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome.
Support the artists! Buy the cd when it comes out. Please
respect the wishes of ESC, keep this off of kazaa, soulseek,
etc.. Pre release music will become a rarity if you don't.
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