Buttons for a Coat: A Davey Williams Commemoration, by Taylor Rouss and Joel Nelson

Buttons for a Coat: A Davey Williams Commemoration

by Taylor Rouss and Joel Nelson

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1.	common porpoise 01:55	buy track
2.	cream of submarine 03:32	buy track
3.	simulated nasal drip 04:06	buy track
4.	catastrophic potato mash 00:59	buy track
5.	aquarian moosetracks 02:55	buy track
6.	all for a spoon full of borscht (solo guitar not on cd) 01:35	buy track
7.	retired as a new settler (solo tenor not on cd) 02:28	buy track

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"I got to thinking about “ .. if I had a dog ...” for some reason as I was getting ready to listen to this - “ ... would the dog? ...” -
walk out on this record, go to sleep, wish the baby wouldn’t pee on the floor - so to speak. It’s the body fluids themselves of course not what people write about them that are potent, mysterious, effusions which broadcast into the dusk and the cars another, bodily, effusion, that stank we will say. Sounds we make of course are similar,
real, sometimes indirectly achieved or produced or reproduced, but physical, bodily effusions. What we call “music”
is like the smell of something cooking which you are never going to eat. You do smell it.
So if you are thinking well this is “more fun for them than for us” improv, it’s not. Suggestive at first of noir soundtracks. Duo accompanying each other so expertly but always maintaining clear lines. Thought at one point that not so much the sound but the way the musicians relate to each other seems middle-eastern - more like serious but not pretentious people performing together within a tradition with mutual respect - but so quick and so closely engaged. Such clean but not abridged sound. Wonderful wild fowl sounds. Precise imaginative percussive suggestive slow
context till you are back at the off ramp liquor store. Guys talking hats hiding their faces at another of the thirteen pumping stations:
“Cain tell is it a goose or Gus, sunbitch
so duplicitous.”
“He don’t like you to call him Gus.”
Guitar track very smooth and natural
blues with commemorative Davey Williams
sharp accents."

- Johnny Coley

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released September 4, 2020

Taylor Rouss - tenor sax, game calls
Joel Nelson - guitar

Tracked by David Allen of Caveland Sounds

Front Cover Painting by Davey Williams

Inside Photo by Neil Dennis

Design and Production by LaDonna Smith

C & P 2020, TransMuseq Records

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