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Like The River Loves The Sea

by Joan Shelley

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Teal 04:10
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Cycle 03:50
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The Fading 03:09
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Awake 03:12
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Any Day Now 03:30

about

It was that Lee Hazlewood Cowboy in Sweden record.

It was learning that the Atlantic Ocean spreads by about an inch each year, pushing apart Europe and America.

It was that Iceland sits on top of that bubbling ridge and gains strange new land by its spreading.

It was the desire to drink in that otherworldly landscape and experience its effect in the music, the way different alcohols have different intoxicating effects on a body.

It was those cheap flights advertised.

It was that you had to leave home to see it for what it is, to frame it neatly: to miss a thing was to know its shape.

These songs deal with the nest that is Kentucky. There’s a saying that goes something like, “When the world comes to an end, I want to be in Kentucky where it's always 5 years behind.” The water they say is good for distilling bourbon. There is something in the water. And what it produces in its people is alternately Dionysian and Apollonian.

Woven into the melodies and rhythms of these songs are fragments of the many musical traditions that comprise what we now call Kentucky music: Irish, British, and African to name a few. The best music would be a conversation with the divine that has seen all of it, or with the oldest trees that have witnessed the whole human story. These songs are partly that conversation, at times through the lens of lovers. They are also a longing cry born of all the dividing; a call across the slowly spreading ocean. Primarily, Like the River Loves the Sea is built as a haven for overstimulated heads in uncertain times. The title (which comes from a song by Si Kahn) speaks of the inevitable and at times indifferent nature of love. Whether it be a physical place or an idea, everyone needs a place of comfort. One where we can look out again from that place of calm and see how to best act and to be in an uncertain world.

- Joan Shelley
Skylight, Ky, April 2019

credits

released August 30, 2019

Produced by James Elkington and Joan Shelley

James Elkington: drums, bass, percussion, guitars, piano, Wurlitzer, JX3F synth, and harmonium

Nathan Salsburg: acoustic and electric guitars

Joan Shelley: classical, resonator, and acoustic guitars

Sigrún Kristbjörg Jónsdóttir: violin and viola

Þórdís Gerður Jónsdóttir: cello

Albert Finnbogason: Wurlitzer (3)

Harmony vocals: Bonnie “Prince” Billy (2, 6), Cheyenne Mize (7, 8, 11), and Julia Purcell (7, 8, 11)

Recorded at Greenhouse and Iðnó in Reykjavik, Iceland by Albert Finnbogason.

Mixed by Kevin Ratterman at La La Land, Mastered by Joe Lambert.

Additional recording by James Elkington, Daniel Martin Moore, and Kevin Ratterman.

All songs written by Joan Shelley

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Joan Shelley Louisville, Kentucky

Joan Shelley is a songwriter and singer from Louisville, KY. Often joined by guitarist Nathan Salsburg, she has shared shows with the likes of Jake Xerxes Fussell, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Richard Thompson, Wilco, Marisa Anderson, Daniel Martin Moore, the Other Years, & Michael Hurley. ... more

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