NEIL YOUNG - 'A LETTER HOME'

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• TMR245 - LP

  858936003493

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**BACK IN STOCK NEXT WEEK** Third Man Records unearths Neil Young’s A Letter Home. "An unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever…" —Homer Grosvenor Last July (2013), Neil Young traveled to Nashville, Tenn to record an album of covers at Jack White's Third Man Records on a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl recording booth.. ''Neil Young just stopped by. He was driving his electric car, the LincVolt, he was driving around town and filming stuff, and he stopped by, checked it out, and me and him were talking about it. We had a curtain set up on the other side,'' said White. ''And some kid came into the recording booth and recorded a Neil Young song and when he opened the door, Neil Young just peaked his head out.'' ''It was a pretty beautiful moment. And I think that a few months later he called me and said, 'Hey man I want to come and record in that booth. Hey, maybe I'll do my whole next record there.' I'm like, 'I'm not going to stop you. Where do you want me to pick you up?'''  180-gram single LP old-style, tip-on sleeves Vinyl pressed at United Record Pressing

Tracks

1. Changes (Phil Ochs)
2. Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan)
3. Needle of Death (Bert Jansch)
4. Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
5. Crazy (Willie Nelson)
6. Reason To Believe (Tim Hardin)
7. On The Road Again (Willie Nelson)
8. If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
9. Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter)
10. My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen)
11. I Wonder If I Care As Much (Everly Brothers)

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'Originally made in 1947, the Voice-o-Graph is the only public vinyl record recording booth of its kind left in the world. After refurbishing it, Third Man opened the booth on Record Store Day 2013 and now anyone can come in and record up to two minutes of audio that's cut onto a six-inch phonograph disc. Young stopped by Third Man last year where he recorded a cover of Bert Jansch's "The Needle of Death" on the Voice-o-Graph last year for a special tribute to the acoustic guitar master.' - Rolling Stone

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VARIOUS - 'LANGUAGE LESSONS VOL: 1'

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• TMR269 - BOOK W/2LP

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**INSTOCK NOW**Third Man Records and Third Man Books are very proud to present Language Lessons: Volume I. Language Lessons is a 321 page hardbound book, co-edited by Chet Weise and Third Man's own Ben Swank, full of contemporary poetry and prose including over 20 award winning and / or nominated contemporary poets and authors such as Dale Ray Phillips, a Pulitzer Prize nominee in fiction, C.D. Wright, a National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle winner in poetry, and Adrian Matejka, a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry. Language Lessons is two vinyl LPs of jazz, psychdelic-punk, poetry, blues and pop from artists such as William Tyler, Destruction Unit, Ken Vandermark, Sampson Starkweather and more. Language Lessons is 5 pieces of frameable broadsides of poems by C.D. Wright, Frank Stanford, Brian Barker, Jake Adam York and Chet Weise with original art from former Big Boys guitartist Tim Kerr, one-time Hate illustrator Jim Blanchard, intertwangle-ist folk artist Butch Anthony and more. That's a lot of bang for your buck... and it all comes housed in a hard-case clothbound sleeve. Details * The Language Lessons: Volume I box set includes a hardbound book of contemporary poetry and prose, two standard-weight vinyl LPs of jazz, psychedelic-punk, poetry, blues and pop, and 5 pieces of hangable art all housed in a hard-case clothbound sleeve. * In 321 pages, the book includes over 20 award winning and / or nominated contemporary poets and authors such as Dale Ray Phillips, a Pulitzer Prize nominee in fiction, C.D. Wright, a National Book Award finalist in poetry, and Adrian Matejka, a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry. And, almost as interestingly, many in the book will be published for the first time in their lives. * To hang on the wall, five frameable broadsides of poems by C.D. Wright, Frank Stanford, Brian Barker, Jake Adam York and Chet Weise, with original art by former Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr, one-time Hate illustrator Jim Blanchard, intertwangle-ist folk artist Butch Anthony, and more. * Features unpublished work by Frank Stanford, Jake Adam York, C.D. Wright, Steve Stern, Sampson Starkweather, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, bemsilr brigham, TJ Jarrett, Janaka Stucky, Sommer Browning, Gaylord Brewer, Dan Boehl, Ben Mirov, Daniel Lucca Pujol, William Miller, and Chet Weise. * Features unheard music by William Tyler, Destruction Unit, Paul ''Wine'' Jones, and Ken Vandermark. * Nonfiction from punk rock progenitors Richard Hell and Tav Falco. * The occupations of the anthology's contributors range from teachers, morticians, librarians, software developers, actors, and taco chefs to bartenders, farmers, musicians, and parents. Although from all over America (and beyond), almost 90% of the contributors read in Nashville at a DIY series called Poetry Sucks.

Tracks

Side A
Brian Baker - 2:00 (the last line is a perfect introduction to the music to come. beautiful poem)
Vox Arcan - 4:39
William Tyler - 8:28
Jem Cohen - 4:49
Side B
Ken Vandermark - 12:07
Sampson Starkweather - 4:38
Mystery Twins - 4:26
Side C
Jake Adam York - 2:32
Paul Wine Jones - 3:04
M Dot - 2:58
JP5 - 3:11
Paige - 2:09
Carlton Melton - 6:35
Side D
Destruction Unit - 18:15
Calliope Watford-Edelson - 2:00

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