Sundowners, by Old Smokey

Sundowners

by Old Smokey

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1.	Sundowners 02:54	buy track
2.	Open Hood 03:36	buy track
3.	Taut 01:40	buy track
4.	A Walk In The Pasture 03:21	buy track
5.	Faulty Thinking Lines 02:20	buy track
6.	They Follow The Seams 04:02	buy track
7.	Stretch 02:25	buy track
8.	Up Through The Low 03:57	buy track
9.	The Leaking Man 02:23	buy track
10.	Sunken Forrest 01:54	buy track
11.	Record Collection 03:59	buy track
12.	Shoal Sounds 00:51	buy track

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"It’s been just shy of a thousand years since any new music was heard from experimental-ish and moody Americana band Old Smokey, but this grievance was redressed a few weeks ago, when the band released a full-length, Sundowners, via Athens label Cloud Recordings.

Truth be told, this album has been sitting around for a while. Member Rob Lomax told me, “I think we began tracking it in December 2015 and finished it the following year.” The band as such doesn’t really exist anymore, due to member Jacob Morris moving to North Carolina a while ago. But the faithful will appreciate that this record features the band’s classic lineup of Morris, Lomax, John Fernandes, Jim Willingham and Jason Trahan, and was recorded, as per usual for Old Smokey, with Zeke Sayer at Gypsy Farm.

The 12 tracks here are well chosen and sequenced just right for dusky evenings. Especially compelling are the klezmer/spaghetti Western stomp “Taut,” the slow funeral march of the title track and the pop abandon of “Faulty Thinking Lines.” Recommended if you dig backroom card games or the scent of old bookstores and have, at one time or another, really tried switching from coffee to tea, but it didn’t take."

- Gordon Lamb, Flagpole magazine

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released April 29, 2019

Jim Willingham (banjo/vocals)
Jason Trahan (lap steel/vocals)
John Kiran Fernandes (clarinet/violin/bass clarinet/vocals)
Jacob Morris (cello/vocals)
Rob Lomax (drums/percussion/vocals)

Recorded by Zeke Sayer
Mastered by Joel Hatstat
Cover Photo by WJAY

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