There’s a space and openness in rural music that makes sense to me.” Playing a lap slide in a style that both evoked the sounds of the ancients and pointed towards new possibilities for the instrument, Kelly Joe’s music seemed to originate in another time as he sang with the voice of an old soul, weary with experience, yet excited with all of the prospects that life brings. My music is a reflection of all the music I loved and steeped myself in. By placing your order, you agree to our Terms of Use. So, I was listening to a lot of Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and some of the newer people like Leo Kottke and John Fahey. Tunesmith Retrofit Kelly Joe Phelps 33 ratings See all 7 formats and editions Streaming Unlimited MP3 £8.99 Listen with our Free App Audio CD £17.50 2 Used from £17.50 1 New from £57.44 Listen Now Buy MP3 Album £8.99 Sold by Amazon Digital UK Limited. “I’d spent all this time learning improvisational music, but I’d always had an attraction to folk based music forms. Though he spent his early years playing free jazz, he has never strayed too far from the roots music world that has become his passion. Since his debut album ‘Lead Me On’, came out in 1994, the Pacific Northwest based singer and songwriter has written and performed some of the most compelling slide guitar based music ever recorded. The result is ‘Brother Sinner and the Whale’, a record that may very well come to be recognized as the best of an already very impressive body of work. Together Phelps and the veteran producer embarked on a three day recording odyssey that marked their fourth collaboration since Dawson played slide on ‘Slingshot Professionals’, produced ‘Tunesmith Retrofit’ and released ‘Western Bell after it proved too daring for Rounder Records. Three years later, his journey has wound its way to a recording studio in Vancouver, and Kelly Joe has once again beaten a path to Steve Dawson’s door with a new batch of songs tucked into his satchel that reflect both the new insights gained along the journey as well as things that have been dropped by the wayside. Kelly Joe Phelps has been doing lot of soul searching since his last record, ‘Western Bell’ came out in 2009. Tunesmith Retrofit Kelly Joe Phelps Released on 8/1/06 by Rounder Main artists: Kelly Joe Phelps Genre: Folk/Americana Available in 16-Bit CD Quality 44. It’s a lonely road to go down and like the old gospel says, you’ve got to walk it for yourself. All played by Jeff.It’s as thin as the edge of a razor, the road separating Heaven from Hell, sin from salvation, redemption from despair. Available at ABC shops & online: ) JEFF LANG - ’YOU HAVE TO DIG DEEP TO BURY DADDY’ 4: 24 (AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: brooding, slow-tolling piece with weissenborn slide guitar to fore, plus amplified national steel guitar & tolling percussion. YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE LATE CHRIS WHITLEY? Here’s a good place to start: )Ģ326 CD (DISC ONE) CUT 3, ’AND ALL THE SNOW MELTED’ JEFF LANG ORIENT PACIFIC MUSIC/ ORIGIN ABC MUSIC 14500 ( in Australia through Warner Music. Smokey-lustrous vocal from Cassandra vocal and improvising slide resophonic guitar and foot stomping from Chris Whitley) The author’s smokey voice and ringing 5-string banjo with John Raham’s drums, Keith Lowe’s ac bass and Steve Dawson’s slide resophonic guitar )Ģ321 CD CUT 12 ’ I CAN’T STAND THE RAIN’ PEEBLES-BRYANT-MILLER PUB NOT SPEC BLUE NOTE CDP 0777 7 81357 2 2 (THROUGH EMI) CASSANDRA WILSON - ’BLUE LIGHT TILL DAWN’ 5: 25 (Very different from Ann Peebles’ own version. Bert is an acknowledged, key influence on Kelly Joe)Ģ318 CD CUT 11, ’HANDFUL OF ARROWS’ KELLY Joe PHELPS PILGRIM’S WAY PUBLISHING, ADMIN BY BUG (BMI) ROUNDER CDROUN3249 ( in Australia through Shock worldwide: ) KELLY Joe PHELPS - ’TUNESMITH RETROFIT’ 3: 27 ( song for Chris Whitley, who died in November 2005. Tunesmith Retrofit ( CD, Advance, Album, Promo) Rounder Records. The author’s husky voice and deftly finger-picked ac guitar, with Keith Lowe’s ac bass)Ģ314 CD CUT 1, ’WALK QUIETLY BY’ BERT JANSCH BMG MUSIC COOKING VINYL COOK CD 092 (THROUGH FESTIVAL) BERT JANSCH - ’WHEN THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN’ 2: 52 (haunting portrait of a loner, drawn from direct observation: Scots male voice and non-flashy but superb fingerstyle ac guitar. Tunesmith Retrofit ( CD, Album) Rounder Records. More detail here: )Ģ310 CD CUT 9, ’LOUD AS EARS’ KELLY Joe PHELPS PILGRIM’S WAY PUBLISHING, ADMIN BY BUG (BMI) ROUNDER CDROUN3249 ( in Australia through Shock worldwide: ) KELLY Joe PHELPS - ’TUNESMITH RETROFIT’ 3: 57 ( Poetically depicts a couple who’ve been together - and at odds - for a long, long time. Nuevos Medios NM 15 820 ĪBC RADIO NATIONAL AMPARO CORTÉS ALERT We explore her new album in depth on ’The Weekend Planet’ next Saturday night, 2nd September. This cut is also on these compilations Ketama - 8217 Nuevos Medios Coleccion8217. 2205 THEME: (details below, as per the original CD.
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