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[UP digital exclusive – for download only]
Inspired by her many trips to the American Deep South, this music also has deeply personal connotations, going right back to Joanna's childhood and a father who was a lay preacher in an Evangelical church.
After a close musical partnership with Andy Sheppard for many years, this is their first long-awaited duo recording. We hear both the purity of the acoustic duo as well as the subtle use of multi-tracking and samples. The use of the original 1927 recording of William and Versey Smith's song Everybody Help the Boys Come Home creates a fantastic groove - which also inflects the tune with the atmospheric static of early recordings. When this tune re-appears as a remix by a different producer, the gravity of the lyrics is brought home by a far darker treatment with layers of drums, disturbing incoherent vocal samples and dissonant layers of electronics.
Tracks:
TRADITIONAL Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child
WILLIAM and VERSEY SMITH Everybody Help the Boys Come Home
JONNY CASH/JOSH HADEN Spiritual
TOM WAITS/KATHLEEN BRENNAN Georgia Lee
WILLIAM and VERSEY SMITH Everybody Help the Boys Come Home (remix)
ALABAMA 3/SIOBHAN PARR Up Above My Head
TRADITIONAL Deep River
ALABAMA 3/SIOBHAN PARR Up Above My Head (remix)
BOB DYLAN Ring Them Bells
NICK CAVE/MICK HARVEY The Mercy Seat
TOM WAITS/KATHLEEN BRENNAN Picture in a Frame
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