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Duet For Guitars

M Ward

SKU: LPJBR0061LE

Barcode: 843563116944

21.00 £21.00

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Originally released on CD in 1999, M Ward’s debut is a sparse, mostly live affair recorded with pal and engineer Adam Selzer of Norfolk & Western at Type Foundry Studio in Portland, OR.

Listeners who are already accustomed to Ward’s breathy, conversational vocal delivery and soft-picked, West Coast Americana melodies will find much to love here. Duet for Guitars #2 is peppered with instrumentals in the John Fahey and Bad Timing-era Jim O’Rourke vein, and Ward’s lackadaisical picking sounds just as lazily precise here as it does on future recordings.

There’s a real warmth to the sessions that transcends the often bare-bones production. For the most part, it sound like most takes were done live with two microphones, with the occasional overdub, and that style suits Ward’s dreamy tales of molasses-slow teenage summers (\Beautiful Car\”) and oddball parables like “”Fishing Boat Song.”” It’s also interesting to hear him shedding the inflections of some of his more obvious heroes like Neil Young (“”Who May Be Lazy””) and Bob Dylan (“”It Won’t Happen Twice””).

This limited edition is an indie record store exclusive and pressed on clear vinyl!”

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Track Listings

  1. Duet For Guitars #2
  2. Beautiful Car
  3. Fishing Boat Song
  4. Scene From #12
  5. Good News
  6. The Crooked Spine
  7. Look Me Over
  8. Who May Be Lazy
  9. It Won’t Happen Twice
  10. He Asked Me To Be A Snake And Live Underground
  11. Song From Debby’s Strairs
  12. It Was A Beautiful Car
  13. Were You There?
  14. Not A Gang
  15. Duet For Guitars #1

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