| Advance Base / Wall of Tears & Other Songs I Didn't Write |
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| Album: | Wall of Tears & Other Songs I Didn't Write | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Advance Base | Added: | Feb 2022 | |
| Label: | Orindal | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2022-08-21 | Pull Date: | 2022-10-23 |
| Week Ending: | Oct 23 | Oct 16 | Oct 9 | Oct 2 | Sep 25 | Sep 18 | Sep 11 | Sep 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 14, 2023: | Oh Messy Life Love at the Five & Dime | 4. | Dec 08, 2022: | Traditions Unwed Fathers | |
| 2. | Dec 29, 2022: | Traditions Love at the Five & Dime | 5. | Dec 03, 2022: | Music Casserole Sweet Old World | |
| 3. | Dec 15, 2022: | Traditions Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day | 6. | Nov 23, 2022: | Run-Away Radio How Can You Live If You Can't Love How Can You If You Do |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2022-03-17 | ||
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Master songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) calls this covers album "an album-length karaoke performance," done with his characteristcally spare and poignant arrangements for keyboard and drum machine. (Fun fact: Ashworth regularly listened to KZSU when he was a teenager in Redwood City.) Here he interprets several country-folk songs, including three by John Prine, as well as a few tunes by artists on the label Orindal Records, which he runs. Charming, earnest, smart, cozy. Favorites: 3, 4, 5, 6. No FCCs detected. 1. (3:27)—Written by Richard Leigh and Peter McCann. Medium-slow, with thick low-end. 2. (4:05)—Written by Lucinda Williams. Medium-slow. Slow dance to close out the disco. 3. *(4:26)—Written by Nanci Griffith. Mid-tempo. Endearing story song about a couple's ups and downs, lovely pedal steel solo. 4. *(2:49)—Written by Karla Matana Hartzman of the band Wednesday. Slow, with synth wobbles. Music for a slo-mo walk. 5. *(4:35)—Written by Iris Dement, with superb lyrics about a languishing life. Very slow, devastating, the standout. So well done that Iris Dement bought it on Bandcamp herself. 6. *(2:16)—Written by John Prine. Spare, just slow and peaceful keyboard chords for accompaniment. "Probably wouldn't believe you if you told me / what I never knew and never will forget." 7. (3:36)—Written by John Prine. Slow, with gentle keyboard. 8. (3:49)—Written by John Prine. Slow, watery beat and organ. "If heartaches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." 9. (3:35)—Written by Dan Wriggins of the band Friendship. Medium-slow, somewhere between grand and weary. 10. (3:44)—Written by Gia Margaret. Another end-of-the-night slow dance. | ||
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