The Hanging Stars at The Jazz Cafe - London - PRB Presents

Name: The Hanging Stars at The Jazz Cafe - London - PRB Presents
Start: 2024-11-27T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-27T23:00:00+00:00
Location: The Jazz Cafe

Schedule

Wed Nov 27 2024 at 07:00 pm to 11:00 pm

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The Jazz Cafe | London, EN

The Hanging Stars - Masters of a captivating meld of blissful psychedelic folk and harmony-laden cosmic country. The Hanging Stars release their new album On A Golden Shore as they reflect on a year of triumphs. With support from Sid Griffin (Long Ryders).
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The Hanging Stars release their new album A Golden Shore as they reflect on a year of triumphs. With an Americana Music Association Bob Harris -sanctioned award and a Nashville sell-out in Third Man’s Blue Room with Jack White approvingly looking on, they’re a leading light in the UK Cosmic Americana cohort. Their standing has allowed them to pay less attention to any preconceptions of what they are ‘supposed to be’. On A Golden Shore-their fifth album and their second for the pioneering Loose Music, following 2022’s Hollow Heart-finds them definitively themselves and presents a set of disparate songs whose fundamental linkage is the band that made them.
On A Golden Shore was recorded at Edwyn Collins’ Clashnarrow Studios with Sean Read producing. Singer/guitarist Richard Olson, drummer Paulie Cobra, multi-instrumentalist Patrick Ralla, plus freshman bassist Paul Milne –laid down the album’s backbone over eight days. Mostly recorded live, even the solos done as a piece. Much is first take because trying better, it never worked as well. Pedal-steel player Joe Harvey-Whyte created and added his parts at his London studio bringing ‘shimmery psychedelic goodness’.
Smartly sequenced On A Golden Shore proceeds in clusters of songs; commencing with the free and easy choogleof ‘Let Me Dream Of You’, encompassing the sunny glam of ‘Sweet Light’, the baggy Balearic waft of ‘Happiness Is A Bird’, the pan pipes and bongos of the exotic ‘Golden Shore’, through to the rolling banjo of ‘No Way Spell’ and the celestial cascades of ‘Heart In A Box’. Fashioned instinctively On A Golden Shoreis ultimately an album of sensation as much as thought, filled with fleeting moments of blissful excess, and stumbling, rushing flutters of sound; its evanescent psychedelia, divine choruses, and shards of strings combine into an infectious, compelling Cosmic Heartbreak Boogie
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Sid Griffin is a leading light of the Americana music scene. The Kentucky native was a founder of the Long Ryders, a band which performed Americana and alt-country long before they were established musical genres. Currently Griffin and the Long Ryders are on display in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville as part of their Western Edge exhibit.
Sid Griffin is also a record producer, a freelance writer, the author of four books, and was Resident Musicologist on the BBC Radcliffe & Maconie show. He wrote the 2004 BBC TV documentary Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel and for BBC Radio 2 he wrote specials on the Carter Family and Buddy Holly. His most recent book, Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, & the Basement Tapes is in its third pressing and he has annotated over forty reissues for artists such as The Byrds, Ronnie Lane, Mike Nesmith, Phil Ochs, and the Flying Burrito Bros.
In Italy Griffin won the Piero Ciampi Award for his lifetime of artistic work and in the UK he was a recipient of the Americana Music Association’s International Trailblazer Award.
The Journey From Grape To Raisin is his first solo album in a decade. It was recorded in Nashville and Griffin calls it “his career best”.
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