Ready For the Flood - Olson, Mark & Gary Louris

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Artist:: Olson, Mark & Gary Louris
Title:: Ready For the Flood
Format:: CD Regular
Barcode No.:: 0607396615520
Available:: 17-11-2008
Sourced:: Australia

Although they’ve toured together and renewed their friendship, this is the first recording by Olson and Louris since Olson left the Jayhawks in 1995. What would become Ready for the Flood was recorded at Sage & Sound Studios in Hollywood with friend Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes. Louris had called in Robinson, who happened to be in town at that point, for “vibe support” and he ended up producing the album; he also appears on the album playing harmonica and contributing backing vocals.

Ready for the Flood captures the stripped down, fingerpicked guitar playing and Laurel Canyon sound of an earlier time, with allusions to English folk – Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, John Renbourne, whom both Mark and Gary had both been getting into independently – and a simpler, live recording technique where capturing the right vibe was as important as the sound. It’s an album that only two career musicians and friends could make – organic, intuitive and loosely confident, heartfelt and moving, echoing with the combined experience of two kindred spirits reuniting to do what they do – and love – best.

’These new memories—thank the Americana gods—are riddled with Louris and Olson’s past, but there are hints of even older musical moments. Ready for the Flood reveals traces of The Kinks, the Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield and even Procol Harum (check the organ on “My Gospel Song For You”) lingering in the minds of the makers. That the ghost of Gram Parsons haunts some of the tunes is less surprising but more than welcome. The production of Black Crowe Chris Robinson lends grit, but is never intrusive, letting the scruffy melodies and jigsaw-puzzle interlocking of these stellar voices do the heavy lifting. The few electric moments (“Bicycle” stands out) provide a different kind of tension, a gruff contrast to the straightforward acoustic timelessness of tracks like “Bloody Hands"’ – Paste

Track Listing

Disc 1:

The Rose Society
Bicycle
Turn Your Pretty Name Around
Saturday Morning On Sunday Street
Kick The Wood
Chamberlain, SD
Black Eyes
Doves And Stones
My Gospel Song For You
When The Wind Comes Up
Bloody Hands
Life`s Warm Sheets
The Trap`s Been Set

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