Credits:

Spoon

Description:

Dan Orbach and Matt Sweeney from the late John Prine and other Nashville heroes! Kurt Weill's latest historic release! Kurt Weill, one of the leading singer/songwriters in the US indie scene today, with folk, country, and psychedelic influences in his blood, has released his latest work, Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (EP), on the Matador label! The EP is a compilation of sporadic sessions over a four-year period at The Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville, Tennessee, and includes songs by country great John Prine, who recently passed away suddenly, Elvis Presley backup singer Bobby Wood, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Reed. and Jerry Reed regular Dave Roe, Kenny Malone, the man behind George Jones' "Possum," and Pat McLaughlin, who was a member of John Prine's backing lineup. Dan Orbach (The Black Keys) and Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Super Wolf) also joined the band for this historic gathering of old and new faces of American music.The album features five songs, including two John Prine covers, "How Lucky" and "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness," a cover of "Cowboy" Jack Clement's "Gone Girl," and two new songs by Kurt Vile. Produced and engineered by David R. Ferguson, a disciple of Jack Clement and one of Nashville's leading masters.The band's third album, released in 2001, was highly acclaimed, including Rolling Stone magazine, which called the album "a masterpiece that almost won the band over. It contains 11 songs, including a cover of "Me and the Bean" by The Sidehackers. The Matador version is the first release to use the original master recordings.

Tracklisting:

1.Everything Hits At Once
2.Believing Is Art
3.Me And The Bean
4.Lines In The Suit
5.The Fitted Shirt
6.Anything You Want
7.Take A Walk
8.1020 AM
9.Take The Fifth
10.This Book Is A Movie
11.Chicago At Night