Siren Records

Lila Nelson - Letter Home

Details

Format: CD
Catalog: 4
Rel. Date: 10/21/2008
UPC: 700261250588

Letter Home
Artist: Lila Nelson
Format: CD
New: NOT IN STOCK IN OUR STORE, BUT AVAILABLE TO ORDER $15.99
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Rattle In My Attic
2. Do You Got The Time
3. Hold Your Place
4. Secret Agent Eyes
5. Parallel Lines
6. I Was Young When I Left Home
7. Thanksgiving
8. American Miracle
9. Laugh A Little
10. Gravity Of Levity, The
11. Through The Window
12. Let You Go

More Info:

Letter Home, haunts, hangs, rattles and bangs. Produced by Freddy Koella (Bob Dylan, K.D. Lang, Doctor John) and Kenny Edwards (Emmylou Harris, Warren Zevon, Linda Ronstadt) and featuring Koella, Edwards, former Jay Hawks drummer Don Heffngton on drums and Stewart Cole on trumpet, Letter Home is as tender as it is dark and deep. Hinging on the proverbial letter that was never written, the entire work is a sincerely spoken recitation. "Secret Agent Eyes" whispers and wails through ethereal electric guitars, with Cole's part-animal, part-trumpet line rising and falling on the horizon. "Parallel Lines" rambles down the street, the lined page, the garden row-bespeckled with banjo, violins and harmonica. The album unfurls, a smile in slow motion, taking a turn for the wry with "American Miracle," her very own brand of literate lyri-cynicism. Love songs-equal parts stirring and cerebral-propel the record along. Koella's vivid arrangement style and taste for the cinematic soundscape underscore Nelson's uniquely evocative voice and incisive turn of phrase. Altogether, Letter Home is a missive not to be missed.
        
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