David Lowery - Fathers Sons And Brothers David Lowery
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David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven) to release his new 28-track solo album "Fathers, Sons and Brothers". "Fathers, Sons and Brothers" is David's musical autobiography, celebrating his youth, family, friends and the highs and lows of his lengthy 40-year career in the music business. The album combines three of David's previously online-only released autobiographical solo albums In The Shadow of the Bull, Leaving Key Member Clause, and Vending Machine, and also includes four new previously unreleased songs, as well as four newly re-recorded tracks He's been writing songs about people on the fringe for damn near a lifetime. 40+ years of detailing the idiosyncrasies of outcasts, losers, freaks and outliers in society in his two acclaimed, if not totally different, bands - Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Lowery lets his memory, and pen, traverse back to some of his earliest memories as a child in an English seaside town ("Frozen Sea").
Throughout the length of the album, he chronologically takes us through his youth (attending a Spanish bullfight with his family, where he asks "Papa, do they really kill the bull?") and carries on through his coming-of-age period (re-locating to California's Coachella Valley with his family in the '70s, as well as a humorous tale of landing in Disneyland jail after getting sh*t-faced on vodka and mushrooms at the theme park, and standing up to bullies in his disabled sister's defense). David recalls moving away from his loving parents' home ("Mom, I'm Living the Life"), starting a band ("I Wrote A Song Called Take The Skinheads Bowling") and then goes onto detail an early love that sadly disintegrated due to his own self-described anger and selfishness on, perhaps, the album's most moving track ("Mexican Chickens").
The album further delves into the ups and downs of his music careers with both groups (tapping into CVB band tensions on "We Hate You" and Cracker's quick rise to fame in the early/mid '90s on "It Don't Last Long"). He recalls hooking up with his future ex-wife in Richmond, VA ("Pretty Girl from Oregon Hill"), and details friends (Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous on "Mark Loved Dogs and Babies"), family, children, divorce and more. By the end of this lengthy, insightful album, you get the feeling that you really know this artist, how he thinks, and have a good sense about who he really is... warts and all. Just as every good autobiography worth its salt does. Thankfully this one just happens to be bound with some truly gorgeous melodies and songs.
Track List
1. Frozen Sea
2. Plaza De Toros
3. Super Bloom
4. Disneyland Jail
5. How Does Your Sister Roller Skate
6. Mom I’m Living the Life
7. I Wrote a Song Called Take the Skinheads Bowling
8. Mexican Chickens
9. Europass
10. We Hate You
11. Everybody Get a Fucking Day Job
12. Battle of Leros
13. Leaving Key Member Clause
14. Piney Woods
CD Disc: 2
1. Let it Roll Down that Hill
2. Pretty Girl from Oregon Hill
3. It Don’t Last Long
4. Fat Little Babies
5. Mark Loved Dogs and Babies
6. Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
7. Vending Machine
8. Fathers Sons and Brothers-Featuring The BellRays
9. Yonder Distant Shore
10. Darken Your Door (Richmond Version)
11. Giving Tree Father
12. Art Basel
13. Every Time I Try to Get Out
14. Beautiful (Georgia Version)
Vinyl:
Side A
1 Frozen Sea
2 Plaza De Toros
3 Super Bloom
4 Disneyland Jail
5 How Does Your Sister Roller Skate
Side B
1 Mom Iâm Living the Life
2 I Wrote a Song Called Take the Skinheads Bowling
3 Mexican Chickens
4 Europass
Side C
1 We Hate You
2 Everybody Get a Fucking Day Job
3 Battle of Leros
4 Leaving Key Member Clause
5 Piney Woods
Side D
1 Let it Roll Down that Hill
2 Pretty Girl from Oregon Hill
3 It Donât Last Long
4 Fat Little Babies
Side E
1 Mark Loved Dogs and Babies
2 Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
3 Vending Machine
4 Fathers Sons and Brothers-Featuring The BellRays
Side F
1 Yonder Distant Shore
2 Darken Your Door (Richmond Version)
3 Giving Tree Father
4 Art Basel
5 Every Time I Try to Get Out
6 Beautiful (Georgia Version)
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