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Plays the Louvin Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1

by Sleep Gunner

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Originally released on The Butcher's Voice. This is THE 12" 10-track full-length LP, pressed on 180-gram vinyl with sleeve designed by Butcher's Tears overlord Felicia von Zweigbergk. Purchase of LP includes digital download of PTLBS (Plays the Louvin Brothers Songbook) Vol. 1 with bonus track "The First One To Love You".

    AND THAT'S NOT ALL: Purchase of PTLBS LP includes free download of our live set recorded in Pisa May 2014, Christ Stopped at Nodica (we'll send you the download codes with your LP).

    Includes unlimited streaming of Plays the Louvin Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      €12 EUR

     

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      €7 EUR

     

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SLEEP GUNNER is
mark morse: guitar
jeroen kimman: guitar

jeroen plays banjo on KENTUCKY, pedal steel guitar on ILYBOA, vocoder synth on NPW
mark plays vocoder guitar on NPW
morten j. olsen plays drums on ILYBOA
cover by felicia v zweigbergk

ILYBOA, LORENE, YL & NPW written by ira and charlie louvin
PMOTTTC & GLDMOG by alton delmore
KENTUCKY by karl davis
YRW by ray edenton/don winters
HTYH by betty e. harrison
ALABAMA by the louvin brothers and eddie hill

recorded live by sleep gunner in THE POD, amsterdam, 2012
produced by sleep gunner.
mastered by jeff carey

BUMA/STEMRA
SATAN IS REAL

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amsterdam guitarists mark morse and jeroen kimman normally have their fingers in a diverse array of musical pies: free improv, chamber ensembles, hardcore noise, avant-pop; but for their first collaboration they chose to narrow their focus on a thoroughly unlikely subject, 1950s alabama heartbreak duo/close harmony pioneers the louvin brothers. the result is an idiosyncratic instrumental reinterpretation of charlie and ira's music: equal parts attempted guitar wizardry, novelty-song, texture-weaving and open-eared improvisation. but ultimately the overwhelming directive had to be their respect for and love of the original music, and it's through this final filter that their debut acronym/album PTLBS Vol. 1 becomes sleep gunner's playful and plaintive attempt to break their own modern conceptualist hearts.

sleepgunner.blogspot.com
SATAN IS REAL

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released September 27, 2014

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Sleep Gunner Amsterdam, Netherlands

For THE SLEEP GUNNER Amsterdam guitarists Mark Morse (US) and Jeroen Kimman (NL) narrowed their focus with laser-like precision (ok no they didn't) on a thoroughly unlikely subject: 1950s Alabama heartbreak duo and close harmony pioneers the Louvin Brothers. The result has always been a playful and plaintive attempt to break their own modern conceptualist hearts. ... more

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