The saint of lost causes / Justin Townes Earle.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: CD-NW-6454 | New West RecordsNW6454 | New West RecordsPublisher: Nashville, TN : New West Records, [2019]Copyright date: ℗2019Description: 1 audio disc (49 min., 30 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Produced by Adam Bednark and Justin Townes Earle.
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Main Library | CD | COUNTRY Earle, Justin Townes | Available | 33111009495751 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
If someone wanted to make a contemporary film noir about life on the wrong side of America's tracks, Justin Townes Earle might be just the guy to write the score. Earle has always favored a spectral, nuanced sound over sonic bombast, and dynamics play a crucial role on 2019's The Saint of Lost Causes. Even at its most bombastic, there's a sense of space in the production and arrangements that puts the vocals and instruments in sharp relief, with some of the tracks feeling more like they've been overheard than recorded full on. And that's a fine fit for the tone of this music; if Justin's songwriting hasn't developed a social conscience on the level of his father, Steve Earle, The Saint of Lost Causes focuses more clearly on the realities of American life in a time of unrest than anything he's recorded in the past. Beneath the lean and mean boogie of "Flint City Shake It" lies a tale of the Michigan city's noble past and blighted present, "Appalachian Nightmare" is a chilling narrative of one man's descent into crime and addiction, "Don't Drink the Water" decries the human impact of corporate pollution, and a broken soul struggles to get to the next town and the next day in "Ain't Got No Money." Earle isn't much on broadsides, but he's got a powerful gift for character studies, and that's why these songs are so effective -- The Saint of Lost Causes depicts injustice on its most intimate and human scale, and Earle makes his characters every bit as real as their pain and tribulations. Earle co-produced The Saint of Lost Causes with engineer Adam Bednarik, and the minimal snap of the drums, the gentle insistence of the guitars, and the lonesome sigh of the pedal steel speak as eloquently as the lyrics, and the plain-spoken strength of Earle's vocals shows how much he's learned about how to make his performances connect. The 12 songs on The Saint of Lost Causes coalesce into a larger story of malaise that's powerful without turning histrionic, and this is powerful music that's both timely and timeless. ~ Mark Deming
Title from disc label.
Performed by Justin Townes Earle, vocals, acoustic guitar ; with accompanying musicians.
Produced by Adam Bednark and Justin Townes Earle.
Recorded Sound Emporium Studios, Nashville, TN.
All songs written by Justin Townes Earle.
Compact disc.
The eighth album from American roots troubadour, Justin Townes Earle finds a songwriter and artist who is unflinching and unequivocal in his truth. When writing this album, Earle focused on a different America, the disenfranchised and the downtrodden, the oppressed and the oppressors, the hopeful and the hopeless. These are individuals and communities in every corner of the country, struggling through the ordinary, and sometimes extraordinary, circumstances of everyday life.
Credits printed on container.
The saint of lost causes -- Ain't got no money -- Mornings in Memphis -- Don't drink the water -- Frightened by the sound -- Flint City shake it -- Over Alameda -- Pacific Northwestern blues -- Appalachian nightmare -- Say baby -- Ahi esta mi nina -- Talking to myself.