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Songs For A Blue Guitar (CD)

By: Red House Painters (Artist)

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Red House Painters Artist Snapshot:

Progenitors of a wistful style that came to be dubbed "sadcore," the Red House Painters were one of the few American bands to record for hip U.K. label 4AD during the 1990s. They were led by singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek, whose fragile, melodic constructions garnered countless Nick Drake comparisons. The band elegantly fleshed out Kozelek's mournful songs in a manner not dissimilar to fellow Californians the American Music Club (AMC singer Mark Eitzel helped the Painters get a record deal). After a string of gorgeous albums, Kozelek went off on his own for such idiosyncratic projects as an album full of acoustic AC/DC covers. Along the way, he even made his acting debut in the successful 2000 film ALMOST FAMOUS. In 2003, Kozelek revealed his new band, Sun Kil Moon.

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DISC 1 for Songs For A Blue Guitar (CD) Album By Red House Painters (Artist)
1   Have You Forgotten
2   Song For A Blue Guitar
3   Make Like Paper
4   Priest Alley Song
5   Trailways
6   I Feel The Rain Fall
7   Long Distance Runaround
8   All Mixed Up
9   Revelation Big Sur
10   Silly Love Songs
11   Another Song For A Blue Guitar
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (8/22/96) - 3-1/2 Stars - Good/Excellent - "...Mark Kozelek embellishes his typical graveyard folk with a Buddy Holly-ish rocker...a female-harmony vocal...and storms of Neil Young-style guitar distortion. The effect is freshening, at once looser, more varied and more textured than the band has often sounded in the past..."
Entertainment Weekly (8/9/96, pp.58-59) - "...Post-folkie acoustic guitar mixes with Crazy Horse-like electric gnarl, and dreamy pedal steel enhances the languor. Kozelek makes music of hope and gloom, sad-eyed but vivid: His song-poetry seems to be of this world and also unplugged from it."
- Rating: A-
Q (9/96, p.120) - 3 Stars - Good - "...the album metamorphoses into a thoughtful, but far more dynamic group affair. Sure, there's the heartbreak, the flat world theories, but there's also strident Neil Youngian guitar....a highly entertaining, well off the wall album."
Alternative Press (10/96, pp.98-100) - "...the what-the-hell approach to recording has served Red House Painters well..."

Title Note

Red House Painters include: Mark Kozelek (vocals).

Engineers: Mark Needham, Billy Anderson.

Recorded at Record Two, Mendocino Comptche, California; Hyde Street Studios and Polk Street Recording, San Francisco, California.

Throughout the '90s, the Red House Painters established themselves as the bedroom poet princes, a quieter, more retiring take on American Music Club's self-loathing avant-folk-rock. While BLUE GUITAR still bears strong traces of the gentle, acoustic Tim Buckley/Nick Drake style that was the band's early trademark, it's also their most aggressive album. The mood is relentlessly downbeat as usual, and soft acoustic ballads like "Have You Forgotten" are standard Painters fare, but the boys have seemingly been listening to a lot of Crazy Horse-era Neil Young as well. "Make Like Paper" is full of crunchy, distorted guitar, with that desert hallucination feel that's so prevalent in Young's '70s work.

The band continues its tradition of unusual cover tunes, with completely unironic and shockingly effective deconstructions of the Cars's "All Mixed Up," Wings's "Silly Love Songs," and Yes's "Long Distance Runaround." There's even an upbeat country-ish tune ("I Feel The Rain Fall"). All this stylistic diversity makes BLUE GUITAR the group's most varied and endearing album.

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