Sweetening," the first single from the forthcoming album, Late Night TV Gold is a different subject matter for Russell, "I don't write a lot of love songs. But when I do they are sweet as hell. This one came pure from the spigot of my stupid romantic heart. The golden rays of light shining down through the wet magnolias onto a plate of peaches; the first rain after a long drought. Nothing like falling in love. If they could bottle it I am sure we would make laws against it."
Late Night TV Gold is filled with Caribbean organs, verbed-out distant delay vocals, chunky fatback guitars, dance hall horns, trip-trap, soul-tap, boldface bass, mellotron traced, late-night rhythms, -isms and -gasms, prisms, schisms, and chasms, this’ems and that’ems of molecular musical atoms splitting hairs and lost heirlooms.
“This record reminds me of the tortoise from the old story with the hare. It has this sort of stout, relentless march to it. It’s hopeful and resolute but pushing through resistance. I guess the world went from all hare to all tortoise so it’s less-than-surprising that you can feel the reflection of that in the songs. There is a lot of blur and shade and random splattered sinewy mop bucket melody. I like that it’s shaking hands with a lot of roots music that one doesn’t instantly associate with my voice." Russell shares.
credits
released August 27, 2021
1. How The Light Knows
2. Sweetening
3. Working Woman
4. Picking Up Tears
5. Party While You Still Can
6. Rhythm of the Night
7. Going Up Coming Down
8. Miles Reply
9. 2Me2U
10. 24 Hrs From Tulsa
11. Favorite Song
12. Late Night TV Gold
Recorded, engineered and produced by-Kevin Russell at Mezcow Home Studio Austin, Tx 2020
Mixed by Jason Weinhiemer at Fellowship Hall Sound, Little Rock, Ar
Mastering-Chris Longwood Mastering Houston, Tx
Shinyribs-Vocals, guitars, ukuleles, keyboards, basses, whistling, loops, doo da, hrumphs, gummies, grooves n giggles
Jason Weinhiemer- Bass, Mellotron, 12 string guitar
Marty Muse-Steel guitars
Alice Spencer-Backing Vocals on Working Woman & Going Up Coming Down
Paul Griffith-Drums on 24 Hrs To Tulsa
Marc Franklin-Trumpet
Kirk Smothers-Saxophone
On Party While You Still Can
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