Everclear

American Music Club

American Music Club / Everclear
Format: CD Album
Released: Wed 31 Jul 1991
Catalogue Number: 15

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American Music Club: Dan Pearson (vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer, bass); Mark Eitzel (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Vudi (guitar, accordion, bass); Bruce Kaphan (guitar, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro, dulcimer, keyboards, bass, percussion); Mike Simms (drums). Producers: Bruce Kaphan, American Music Club, Norman Kerner. Engineers: Bruce Kaphan, Tom Carr, Norman Kerner. Recorded at Music Annex Studio A, Menlo Park, California, Soma Sync Studios and Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, California. EVERCLEAR, AMC's finest hour and one the '90s' most powerful albums, is simultaneously lush and searing, heartache and despair borne out in elegant arrangements that combine fragile prettiness and soul-baring howls of pain. Multi-instrumentalist Bruce Kaphan rose to the occasion of his production debut. The canyons of reverb on the instruments are strangely appropriate, highlighting the almost decadent, tragically beautiful feel of the songs. Keyboards, pedal steel, and acoustic guitars drift like abandoned ships swirling around in a colorfully tempestuous sea full of unknown nautical demons. Guitarist Vudi contributes some of the most artful, non-traditional sounds ever concocted by a "rock" axeman. The album begins with a slow, soulful lament to a love who's either sleeping or dead, before taking up the subject of mortality more fully in the anthemic "Rise," written by Eitzel for an AIDS-stricken friend. Eitzel observes the trials of those around him on "Ex-Girlfriend," but "Sick of Food" turns his gaze inward, breathlessly describing his alienation from virtually everything and his simultaneous longing for connection. His disaffection grows more urgent on "The Dead Part of You," but by the closing folky ballad "Jesus' Hands," Eitzel's delivering a plea for redemption that finds him strangely at peace with contentment's evanescence.

Details:

  • Distributor: Cargo
  • Discs: 1
  • Release Year: 2006
  • Running Time: 36 minutes

Track Listing:

1.  Why Won't You Stay
2.  Rise
3.  Miracle On 8th Street
4.  Ex Girlfriend
5.  Crabwalk
6.  Confidential Agent
7.  Sick of Food
8.  Dead Part of You
9.  Royal Cafe
10.  What the Pillars of Salt Held Up

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