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Last of the Blacksmiths
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Young Family Song
Last of the Blacksmiths
Description: The chief desire of creative endeavor is to see where inexhaustible melodies from nowhere lead. Last of the Blacksmiths collect flashes from the flight of time, taking what was almost lost to the past, those notes that nest in your throat, and making it part of the present. The band gathers sound from the whispering pines, intuits all the fleeting birds and beasts, and gives them a voice. They sing according to what has seduced them. As listeners, we are accomplices to this realization. Young Family Song documents a period of time for the Blacksmiths. These songs--the harmonies, the expression of many simultaneous ideas, a collection of dear memories--are part of the Blacksmith's milieu which is not limited to these songs. These are melodies for the weary hours, a choir to calm the absence. They are with us when we're able and with us when we're not. Since 2003, these four friends have invested time in one another's lives, performing, writing and recording together--an experience that is uniquely satisfying in and of itself. The patience and imagination involved in making an album stirs new sounds. As the Blacksmiths have grown and started families of their own, they've built a new brood of ideas, ideas that are now only young birds and beasts waiting for a voice.
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This is the third release from Last of the Blacksmiths. The band released a self-titled CD in 2005. In 2007, the Blacksmiths celebrated their involvement with Vanguard Squad with And Then Some, a 2 song single released on 45 rpm vinyl and CD. To read a full biography of Last of the Blacksmiths,
click here. If you'd like to listen to more songs by the Blacksmiths, visit the Jukebox. To read about birdwatching, delivering pizza, falling in love and some of the music that inspires the band, visit our Proletariat Press section and read "We Had No Dream, We Just Lived One". Also, the band has their own website: LastOfTheBlacksmiths.com.
TECH SPECS: Young Family Song was recorded at The Studio That Time Forgot by Desmond Shea. Additional recording was done by Nigel Pavao at home. "At An Early Hour" was recorded by Nigel at Zilla Studios. The album was mixed by Desmond and the band and mastered by Mike Wells. All songs were writtin by Last of the Blacksmiths, except "Pick A Song," which started as a poem by Nathan's grandfather, Rufus Wanta. Matt Henry Cunitz played Wurlitzer on "Pick A Song." Carol Ashby played trombone on "Autumn Vacation." I visited them in the studio while they were recording. Fine job, gentlemen!
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