Shawn Mullins honeydew Vanguard 79830-1 2LP + CD Limited Edition Rare Sealed
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Shawn Mullins honeydew Vanguard 79830-1 2LP + CD Limited Edition Rare! Sealed!
Shawn Mullins honeydew Vanguard 79830-1 2LP + CD Limited Edition Rare! Sealed!
Label: Vanguard 79830-1
Condition: New, sealed!
The Vinyl: Mint
The Cover: Mint
1 All In My Head 4:24 2 Home 3:07 3 The Ballad Of Kathryn Johnston 3:27 4 Homeless Joe 2:42 5 Leaving All Your Troubles Behind 3:17 6 Fraction Of A Man 3:14 7 See That Train 3:36 8 For America 3:16 9 Cabbagetown 5:01 10 Nameless Faces 3:27 11 Song Of The Self (Chapter 2) 3:08 12 Rewind The Years 5:32 Note Includes CD.
2008 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company, 2700 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 100, Santa Monica, CA 90404.
Call it a comeback or just a continuation. After a five-year sabbatical, Shawn Mullins' 2006 release was a somewhat unexpected gem that even yielded a minor hit in "Beautiful Wreck." That album not only coalesced all Mullins' strengths as a sharp lyricist, a winning composer, and a distinctive vocalist, but revived a career most would have left for dead, and was one of his finest collections. The 2008 follow-up titled honeydew, inexplicably spelled with a lower case "h," shows that the previous platter was no fluke. This dozen-song set kicks off with another should-be hit single in the ringing mid-tempo "All in My Head" that boasts an impossibly catchy, strangely familiar melody. It's "na na" hook is perfect for crowd singalongs, making the song as commercial and crossover worthy as any he has written. Although composed in 2002 and left to languish on the Scrubs soundtrack, this is timeless folk-pop given a fresh arrangement and a new lease on life. There's nothing as immediate on the rest of honeydew, but that's not a problem since Mullins' character studies, which dominate the track list, are wonderfully fleshed out pieces. The forlorn old black woman who dies alone in "The Ballad of Kathryn Johnson," the confirmed bachelor mama's boy named Harry of "Fraction of a Man," and the rest of the "Nameless Faces" are intricate, vividly detailed portraits of the forgotten folks who populate Mullins' work here. Musically he shifts from acoustic performances, some with just unplugged guitar, to slightly larger yet still rootsy band productions that change moods while keeping the project from settling into any specific groove. "See That Train" rattles through Tom Waits' styled huff-clanging percussion only to lead into the lovely yet chilling, mandolin driven, anti-Iraq war ballad "For America." Contributions from guitarist Peter Stroud (Sheryl Crow), who returns from Mullins' last album, and longtime Atlanta friends Clay Cook, soul-blues singer Francine Reed (Lyle Lovett), and drummer Gerry Hanson (Randall Bramblett) help create the warmth that courses through the proceedings. Some of these mini-dramas such as "Cabbagetown" tell of Mullins' family and upbringing in Atlanta, and although this can't be considered Southern rock, there is a definable red clay roots approach that lovingly swathes these compositions. Hanson recorded and mixed the session in his Georgia studio creating a vibe that's loose, homey, and enticing. Songs such as the personal reminiscence of "Now That You're Gone" are intimate reflections that could easily deteriorate into schmaltz but are rescued by Mullins' heartfelt vocals and the band's clean, honest approach. That makes the song a tearful and totally believable excursion into the loss of an old love you almost wish would never end. It closes out a terrific folk-rock project that shows Mullins is not just here to stay, but on top of his always impressive game. [Vanguard issued a Limited Edition in 2008.]
SHAWN MULLINS ON THE SONGS OF HONEYDEW:
All in My Head : The song s theme of self-examination belies the fact that it was written by Mullins and Hansen as a prospective theme song for the sitcom Scrubs. The original 2002 recording was lighter and more uptempo than this powerful new version, in which Mullins delivers an arching falsetto vocal in the chorus. When we FIRST started the recording, I was having a block, and Gerry said, Shawn, I m tellin you, that stuff's all in your head, just like that song we wrote. And I said, Man, we oughta dig that up. The next thing I knew, we were all sitting around working it up in a whole different groove.
Home : The first verse is about my dear friend Melissa Hadley, a musician in Athens and the funniest woman I ever knew, who died at 38 of ovarian cancer. The second verse came to me as I was looking at old pictures of Cabbagetown, a section of Atlanta that was once inhabited by Irish immigrant mill workers. In one photo, there s a boy sitting in front of a dimestore, looking as emaciated as a POW. I got to thinkin that it wasn t that long ago, right here in my hometown.
The Ballad of Kathryn Johnston : Literally ripped from the headlines, the song is about an aged woman living in a crime-infested Atlanta neighborhood who got a gun to protect herself. When intruders broke down her door one night, the woman started firing, not realizing her assailants were police officers, who, it turned out, had targeted the wrong house in search of drug dealers. Reading Dylan s Chronicles inspired me to look for news stories, and this one really grabbed me. So little was said about it because that s how things are in rough neighborhoods, which is what I meant by the line, everything stays the same. But it all changed for me, because I connected with her. Sometimes I don t feel safe, especially after we got cleaned out last year. But we don t have a gun in the house. Even though I ve got a little army in me [after college, Mullins was commissioned in the U.S. Army Reserve], I don t wanna live that way.
Homeless Joe : There really is a Homeless Joe here in Atlanta, along with Shorty, Blind Bob, Wolf and other strumming, homeless troubadours. They re living through their art, even though their lives are tough, without enough to eat or a place to sleep, and they re viewed as winos on the street. The song is a celebration of those people who are following their bliss, even in the most difficult of circumstances. Ive always connected with them; I see them as modern-day examples of the wanderer.
Leaving All Your Troubles Behind : This is the story of a girl who lives in a town in the North Georgia Mountains where there were once textile mills, but now the biggest industry is trailer meth, cooked up by the grandkids of moonshiners. There are a lot of people in small towns in the South that try to escape, and most of them wind up coming back. But not this girl; she s seen enough to know that s not where she belongs.
Fraction of a Man : A modern-day traveling salesman finds himself in Biloxi, and suddenly it hits him What am I doing with my life? That s a really common thing for a lot of middle-aged American men, who want to follow their bliss and really go for it, but somehow they never do. This one leaves you with a reality check, with the alcoholism, the loneliness, and the nomadic existence. It d make a bummer of a movie.
See That Train : I love trains. My grandfather, father and brother-in-law all worked for the railroad, and I miss all the stories I used to hear. The song is about a hobo whose girl has left him asleep under a water tower and taken the train to Birmingham. I feel so unhip, because all the stuff I m interested in is
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