Formats
SPIRITUAL017 - LP
096962271596
Details
Songs pre-date our Internet, television, and even the written word as the way to get The News. The stories of all time, ballads, and living legends instantly come to life when the guitar strikes up and the band begins to play, and the singer sings, echoing clear messages from distant times and places. These five skifflers—Cass McCombs (guitar, vocals), Farmer Dave Scher (keyboards, lap steel guitar, melodica, vocals), Neal Casal (guitar, vocals), Dan Horne (bass), Aaron Sperske (drums and percussion)—have found a common bond in the belief that handmade music is in short supply these days—music made by the people, for the people and delivered to the people via an astrological and metaphorical horse and buggy that skiffles through the cosmos direct to your turntable. Skifflin’ was conceived in a land of enchantment in Fall 2013, cultivated in design and conception throughout 2014, and performed live in the studio with no digital trickery in 2015. Barrel-aged to perfection, this is straight skifflin’ extract; pure, unadulterated, non-filtered West Coast golden goodness. With some ballads old, some brand new, and the whole history of the human condition in song to draw from, The Skiffle Players show no sign of relenting, for they have tapped into something great and mighty and true: a roaring river of living memory, always flowing, waiting there to be discovered when we, humankind, need it most. So give yourself to the Great Story, the voices of the land in the grand pageant of all times and places. The skiffle has always been and shall endure, and is here once more.
Tracks
1. Coo Coo Bird
2. A Star for You
3. Til Stone Day Comes
4. Michael Weikel
5. Railroadin? Some
6. Skiffle Strut
7. Always
8. When the Title Was Wrote
9. Omie Wise
10. Skiffle Paperclip When Science Evolves