Crowell, Rodney - Airline Highway (Digipack) (CD) Orange Cassette)

Crowell, Rodney - Airline Highway (Digipack) (CD) Orange Cassette)COMPACT DISC (CD) Full of deep empathy, sober insights, and lively guitar licks, Rodney Crowells new album takes its title from a seemingly mundane stretch of four lane blacktop that runs deep into Louisiana. Its the road he and producer Tyler Bryant drove to reach the remote studio where they recorded these songs, hauling a truckload of gear on a two day journey that ended in swamps. Along the way Crowell looked up the route they were driving:

Mogwais mastery of sound and space is firmly at its apex

in the still of the night

on the album's sleeve is an unnerving image of Janet Farrar

Pressed on red/black vinyl

8 Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song

'Some Might Say'

I feel like I just keep getting more and more dense

following swirling leaves

and Amon Duul II remained petrified in the Corycian Caverns - otherwise known as the drummer's basement

This was The Melvins last release before signing their Atlantic deal

and Glastonbury

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