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Wes Tirey

The Midwest Book of the Dead

Mapache Records

MAPANC0013LP

2LP Black $17 $28
  • New Vinyl release
  • Double album

Description

Wes Tirey’s The Midwest Book Of The Dead, is an intimate study of the Midwestern condition. A double album, it tells of silos like chapels, spiders in the cane, of drunkards and saints and fugitives; it speaks of wild geese, and the good life, rhinestone suits, Coca Colas, and dishes drying on the rack. Sincerity, sensuality, and humor all reside in the candor and weight of these songs — its playing and arrangements, rich but unfettered, and Tirey’s voice grown several feet deeper and more sonorous. It is a sublime expansion of a trademark style he has come to call “rustic minimalism”.

The Midwest Book of the Dead finds Tirey both solo for acoustic laments and backed by close collaborators for barroom ballads, with Ryan Gustafson (Hiss Golden Messenger, Phil Cook, Charlie Parr) taking the helm as producer.

This assemblage of strangers and stories and snapshots...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Red Corn, Yellow Corn
  • 2 Skinny Arms
  • 3 Bang the Drum Slowly
  • 4 If Love Blues
  • 5 Monument Song
  • 6 Red Corn Raga
  • 7 Cumberland Ave, Night Watch
  • 8 Life is good, life is sweet
  • 9 Wild Blue Yonder (Two Riders)
  • 10 Fugitive
  • 11 Wound
  • 12 Overworked, undersleep
  • 13 One Among The Many
  • 14 My Father at Twenty Two Years
  • 15 Arkansas
  • 16 Anything You Please
  • 17 Wanda
  • 18 Where The Blues Fade Away