Lee Bains & the Glory Fires - Old-time FolksDouble vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. While the Glory Fires have spent a decade propagating what the New York Times calls 'pandemonium with a conscience,' they've long talked about wanting to make a classic record not a transparent document of their playing live with the occasional embellishment but a record. So, that's what they did. They contacted Athens, Georgia's David Barbe, whose work with the Drive By Truckers, Sugar, Son Volt,

including Roeland Hendrikx

His approach is fresh and his ideas delve into the possibilities of the art form we respectfully call jazz

Cyrano acknowledges Christian's love for Roxanne and agrees to help him in his pursuit of the fair lady by providing Christian the words to woe Roxanne

it should be clear how they all fit on the same record label

I feel the process of good songwriting is a bit like Casal's father trying to describe "machines that fly" before airplanes were invented

Tears flow silently

performed by the musicians of the Chapel

and they show both his versatility and his remarkable ability to make everything sound offhand

Then there's a wonderful rendition of Huey Smith & The Clowns "Don't You Just Know It

after all these years

It is beyond anything I could have imagined'

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