John McEuen - The Newsman: A Man Of Record [CD]

COMPASS

£12.22

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: COM48182
Barcode: 766397481821
Release Date: 12 Apr 2024
Genre: Americana

GRAMMY winner John McEuen's new album, 'The Newsman', is a frst for the acoustic music legend who helped to defne the trajectory for bluegrass and acoustic-rooted music in the mid 1970s as a member of The Nitty Gritty Dirty Band

The album's 11 tracks are all spoken word renditions of poems from the 19th and 20th century that McEuen has been collecting over the course of his 50 year career. Each story is told in McEuen's engaging baritone, adorned by his unique instrumental compositions informed by his many years of scoring flms. From the opening title track, which is a true story about a man who sold newspapers and was a tremendous infuence on the young musician in Los Angeles, to the fnal cut, "Julie's Theme," inspired by Jules Verne telling a friend, in a French cemetery, about his recently deceased young wife, McEuen presents an album of mini-stories at once inspirational and deeply emotional.

Tracks: The Newsman / Fly Trouble / The Cremation Sam McGee / Old Rivers / The Guitar of Pineapple John / Killed At The Ford / Nui Ba Den / Red Clay / I'll Be Glad When They Run Out of Gas / The Mountain Whippoorwill / Jule's Theme