Bells of St. Julian's (The Criminal's Good-Night)
Adam Selzer
Performed By
Adam Selzer
Album UPC
634479246937
CD Baby Track ID
1617069
Label
Adam Selzer
Released
2003-01-01
BPM
110
Rated
0
ISRC
uscgh0657423
Year
2003
Spotify Plays
13
Writers
Writer
Adam Selzer
Pub Co
Adam Selzer
Composer
Adam Selzer
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Rights Controlled
Master and Publishing Grant
Rights
One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
United States - Illinois
Description
A mostly-acoustic rock album, full of character sketches, fake history lessons, and the odd sing-along anthem, all with the lyrical flair that distinguishes Selzer, who is also a published young adult novelist and professional ghost-buster.
Notes
Back to the starting place!
Casting aside the cabaret feel of Suburban Post Modernist, Adam gets back to his singer-songwriter side with this collection of mostly acoustic numbers, backed by the ever-capable Revolving Door All-Stars. The album brings about the feeling of a vinyl rock album from the early 70s, the sound of a rollicking troubadour in the vein of Warren Zevon. There are fewer novelty songs here (just the lovely "intellectual country song about joan baez," followed by the funky, spooktacular "your neighborhood gives me the creeps"), but, like Zevon, even the sad songs have a bit of a sarastic smile behind them.
While a few songs are set in the fictitious Cornersville Trace (the setting not only of his previous album, but of his books), "Clark Street Carols" is more of a Chicago album, full of transient hotels, dying poets trying to get the last laugh, guys having affairs with a soldier's girlfriend, and convicted criminals plotting one more escape.
This is Adam's most solid, affecting album by a country mile.
Casting aside the cabaret feel of Suburban Post Modernist, Adam gets back to his singer-songwriter side with this collection of mostly acoustic numbers, backed by the ever-capable Revolving Door All-Stars. The album brings about the feeling of a vinyl rock album from the early 70s, the sound of a rollicking troubadour in the vein of Warren Zevon. There are fewer novelty songs here (just the lovely "intellectual country song about joan baez," followed by the funky, spooktacular "your neighborhood gives me the creeps"), but, like Zevon, even the sad songs have a bit of a sarastic smile behind them.
While a few songs are set in the fictitious Cornersville Trace (the setting not only of his previous album, but of his books), "Clark Street Carols" is more of a Chicago album, full of transient hotels, dying poets trying to get the last laugh, guys having affairs with a soldier's girlfriend, and convicted criminals plotting one more escape.
This is Adam's most solid, affecting album by a country mile.
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