Mark Spencer/Jon Graboff

[johnfoyle]

Two of Laura's longtime musical cohorts are featured on this album. Most of it is pleasant enough bar-room rock , except for ' 'Til It All Falls Apart ' which is a insanely catchy ' n mellow tune, featuring gorgeous pedal steel playing from Mark.

Another feature of the album is the 'hidden' content ; about 20 minutes after the last track 'ends' a chunk of foul-mouthed dialogue can be heard, including what seems to have inspired the album's title.


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There's No Sound In Flutes!
- Spike Priggen

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In addition to showcasing Priggen's performing and songwriting gifts, There's No Sound In Flutes also draws upon the talents of many of the stellar players with whom Priggen has crossed paths over the years. The album was engineered by longtime collaborator Adam Lasus, whose recent recording credits include work with the Rogers Sisters and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, a longtime Priggen pal, is featured on two songs, while other tracks feature such stalwart New York players as guitarists Mark Spencer (Laura Cantrell/Jay Farrar) and Jon Graboff (Ryan Adams/Amy Rigby), bassists Danny Weinkauf (They Might Be Giants/Fountains of Wayne) and Scott Yoder (Kevin Salem/Amy Rigby), keyboardists Rob Arthur (Joan Osborne/Peter Frampton), drummer Brian Doherty (They Might Be Giants/XTC) and keyboardist/arranger CP Roth (Blessid Union of Souls/Ozzy Osbourne), who masterminded the album's inventive faux-orchestral arrangements.

[johnfoyle]

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After years as a band member, sideman, session player, producer, and engineer, Jay Sherman-Godfrey has moved front and center with Twoscore, his solo debut. The EP’s seven songs reflect his wide-ranging musical experience and influences – from the jangly, Califonia country of the late Byrds to the classic power-pop of Badfinger. He refers to his style as having a “pop sensibility, country lean," an approach epitomized by his dramatic waltz-time reading of the Beach Boys' classic Girl Don't Tell Me, the centerpiece of the disc.

Sherman-Godfrey is perhaps best known for producing and playing guitar on Laura Cantrell’s debut CD, Not The Tremblin’ Kind, and its follow-up, When The Roses Bloom Again. Each has received widespread critical acclaim, personal support and regular airplay from legendary BBC DJ John Peel, and a four-star review from Rolling Stone. More recently, he and Ms. Cantrell collaborated on the song Bees from her 2005 Matador release, Humming By The Flowered Vine.

In addition to Ms. Cantrell, Sherman-Godfrey has had the pleasure of working with They Might Be Giants, Amy Rigby, Michael Moore, Eric Ambel, Michael Shelley, Tandy, and Mojo Nixon, among others.