Rediscovered: Judee Sill; Daniel Rossen, Bill Callahan, & Marissa Nadler Do Covers
Although the resurrection of lost and forgotten 1970s sullen folklore seems to have come to a tipping point these days, I’m gonna go ahead and say there’s no such thing as too much of a good thing. Personally, my obsession with Glowing Raw is in a constant state of growth– these are the folks who opened my eyes to Sibylle Baier and Claudine Longet, who I just.. can’t.. stop.. listening to.
Next up on the list of underappreciated in his/her own time is Judee Sill. After the re-release of her two albums on Artista in 2005, this gloomy little songstress captured the like-souled hearts of neo-folk peeps such as Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes. And now, we have a tribute album to look forward to. Yesterday, American Dust announced the release of Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill out on September 22nd– which includes two tracks, preiously unrecorded, and interpreted by Beth Orton and Bill Callahan.
Oh, and in case your obscure folk obsessed mouth isn’t watering enough, Callahan’s “Like a Rainbow” happens to have been co-written by Judee’s onetime boyfriend Lal Baum– great-grandson of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum. Sweet, huh?
Check out Fleet Foxes doing a cover of Sill’s “Crayon Angels”, who (sadly) are not a part of the tribute album of the same name, and the full track listing after le jump…
01 Ron Sexsmith: “Crayon Angel”
02 Beth Orton: “Reach for the Sky”
03 Daniel Rossen: “Waterfall”
04 Frida Hyv√∂nen: “Jesus Was a Cross Maker”
05 Shalants: “Lopin Along Thru the Cosmos”
06 Final Fantasy: “The Donor”
07 Nicolai Dunger: “Soldier of the Heart”
08 Trembling Blue Stars: “Lady-O”
09 Colossal Yes: “The Phoenix”
10 Marissa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity: “The Kiss”
11 Princeton: “Down Where the Valleys Are Low”
12 The Bye Bye Blackbirds: “There’s a Rugged Road”
13 Meg Baird: “When the Bridegroom Comes”
14 Bill Callahan: “For a Rainbow”
15 P.G. Six: “Til Dreams Come True”
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