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News: Decemberists' Colin Meloy Readies Live Solo Album
via Pitchfork: Today by Dave Maher on January 15, 2008
Includes covers, unreleased songs, stage banter
Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy has released tour-only EPs where he Sings Morrissey and Sings Shirley Collins, but what we really want is for him to sing himself-- to remember his spirit, as Oprah would say. He does it all the time in the Decemberists, and he's done it all by his lonesome on his solo acoustic tours. Meloy's self-singing on his 2006 solo acoustic tour is documented on Colin Meloy Sings Live!, which Kill Rock Stars will release April 8 on CD and gatefold double LP.
Included on Sings Live! are songs from Meloy's first band, Tarkio, as well as cuts from every Decemberists full-length pre-The Crane Wife. There is also a tune from the 2006 EP Picaresqueties, two previously unreleased originals ("Dracula's Daughter" and "Wonder"), bits of covers of songs by the Smiths, R.E.M., Pink Floyd, and Fleetwood Mac, and a traditional folk song in debt to Shirley Collins' arrangement.
Squished in between all these goodies are stage banter interludes.
Meloy will head out on another solo acoustic tour this spring, and before then, the Decemberists have those four previously reported dates in their native Pacific Northwest. [MORE...]
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