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Sack Full of Silver - 2018 Remastered Edition

by Thin White Rope

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    Part two of Frontier's Thin White Rope reissue project. This time, In The Spanish Cave and Sack Full of Silver are on offer. Each album has been remastered and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Both have two color options. The retail edition of Sack Full of Silver comes in "metal" grey marble (ed of 350), and the mail-order-only edition is on "sunset" orange marble vinyl (ed of 150). Both come with LP insert/lyric sheet and download card.

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    Still digging the compact disc format? We've got you covered. Nothing special or limited here, just the CD version of the remastered Sack Full of Silver. Comes in sealed jewel case with booklet.

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    Get all 11 Thin White Rope releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Ruby Sea - 2019 Remastered Edition, In The Spanish Cave - 2018 Remastered Edition, Sack Full of Silver - 2018 Remastered Edition, Moonhead - 2018 Remastered Edition, Exploring The Axis - 2018 Remastered Edition, Spoor, The One That Got Away, The Ruby Sea, and 3 more. , and , .

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1.
Hidden Lands 03:04
Looks like the sun can light Your features from behind their hidden side Speaking of an age has yet to come Without the sun the grass Would never grow and time would cease to pass And everyone would stay just the same Guess it’s the sun that shrinks The houses and the streets of the town Especially my house, which used to have These hidden lands
2.
I’ve been telling you so you ought to know What will happen unless you forego The pulsing sun reverses the propellers On the Cessna plane It falls into the jungle and is swallowed by the rain Week after week the monkeys watch the fallen sons decay Trying to get through the windows to the Chocolate on their face When psychologists write a book on this And sell it, it becomes A cartoon animated broken wire model Of pterodactyl bones But I’ve already seen the picture, it filled me with belief So I head into town with my sack full of silver Which is gonna buy me grief I’ve been telling you so you ought to know What will happen unless you forego
3.
4.
Out eating burgers in a friend’s car Each paper napkin has a happy star Deep in the trash can they begin to sing “See what a life of innocence brings” These things don’t make me sad today There comes a time when everyone’s plans Fall like a dog from a truck-bed grandstand Fall like red snow on the freeway “I could have done all these things,” he said, “And maybe I could have loved you But I’ll pretend I’m above it now” Night bugs come through the window crawling Dead man’s shirts in the closet calling “Why didn’t you write me before I died?” I would’ve – but I don’t know what to say To my best friends
5.
Americana 04:34
You’ll get what you expected from your 18-dollar home: The worth of having cheated and the rage of being alone There was a year when days and hours flew And I gained an hour when I moved out here with you Out of all the thousands I wasted on you You’ll have the time to break in your 18-dollar home, To feel the worth of cheating and the rage of being alone Your walls are bare like all the walls you’ve known Your room’s the same as dozens you have known Takes more than a table and chairs to make a home But you have two things to furnish your 18-dollar home: The worth of having cheated and the rage of being alone Your window is your prehistoric eye Your window is your prehistoric eye Go ahead and watch those dinosaurs roll by Companions you can turn on in your 18-dollar home: The worth of having cheated and the rage of being alone
6.
The Ghost 03:43
Well I woke up on the gravel ground At the feet of a long tall train Remembering not where I was from Remembering not my name I thought of friends from years ago In a youth I’d thrown away And a girl who used to love me so Though I couldn’t recall her face Then I realized I was only drunk And the years were stripped away I felt like a widower stoned and watching A film of his wedding day She ran to the car with a T-shirt on Her face as sad as the moon Well I was lost and I was bummed By the ghost of yet to come
7.
I realize it’s two or three comparisons away But somewhere in the background of the calmest of your days A scrap of paper floats a thousand feet up in the air Abandoned by some dust devil that died and left it there The wind digs deep and peels up the skin of the land The howling current erases the prints from my hand I know you are a creature of soil and air If one becomes too heavy the other simply escapes from there When you unleash the sand and wind I am suspended by your eyes Squirming like a beetle pinned Between the devil and the deep blue sky The wind licks off the tarpaper with sandy cat tongues Numberless horned bullets lodge in a lover’s lungs At last I see the ghosts which have been with me all along Spinning on an axis pointed straight up at the sun When the substance of our life together becomes too much And you threaten to remove the whirlwind of your touch I am only a piece of trash up a mile high Grabbing at the falling sand which held me in the sky
8.
I am feeling just a little down Nothing I can wrap reasons around But I can ignore it if I look real hard And make perfect triangles out of every three stars Sometimes I make burns on my arms Cause it moves that feeling from my heart to my arms And I’m driving and it keeps me awake I have so many more triangles to make Now that I have planted the seed Maybe those triangles will form without me Surround the world in their crystalline ache And freeze the heroes into glassy mosaics
9.
Diesel Man 03:43
I was on the corner phone to someone I’d known About the only things that seemed important Two corners of my life – this locked up empty night And a gar skull I found on a beach in Texas I praised the strength of men caught in the moment when Deciding to forgive themselves their failures Like this night of broken things – the song I tried to sing, The ashtray, and the piano lady’s laughter And someone in the phone knew everything I’d ever known Hummed soundtracks to dreams I had forgotten Things that we didn’t have right we argued half the night Knowing we could not come any closer I loved the telephone, talked to the dial tone While people on the sidewalk hurried by me
10.
On the Floe 04:51
There is a bar where everyone I know We talk about some things we don’t begin to know We’re smart enough to realize we got no business here But not smart enough to rise above our bitterness and fear There is a bridge they’re afraid to complete Creatures walk on it wearing ruts with their feet That long-ago someone has broken their hearts They watch without seeing as we exit the bar Seems to me we are stranded on the floe Watching distant shorelines as we go There is a song so hard to steer I thought it would capsize in bitterness and fear I look to the sky when I’m tired of the sea Constellations are moving, they’re useless to me And it seems we’ve been stranded on the floe Watching distant shorelines as we go

about

For the first time we've put together an album of songs that took shape on the road. This doesn't mean they are flat like sail-bunnies or white boogie. These are fat round songs. Some are clumsy, like they have magnets buried inside off-center; some have lots of little spikes sticking out all over, but these might be bluffing. The best songs are shaped sort of like boobs. "The Floe" has a pentatonic mammarian structure. "Whirling Dervish" started as a musical dickaround with a '30s song which Daffy Duck sings in old cartoons. The words came out from under a bridge in Cincinnati. "Diesel Man" was a bum in Denver, "The Floe"is a frozen lake in Sweden, and "Triangle Song" is a sack full of Chrismas joy from Moscow. "Yoo Doo Right" and "The Napkin Song" we played live before we knew how. "The Ghost" popped out of a bottle of vermouth in Groenigen. "Americana" could be anywhere. "Hidden Lands" is from getting home again. We included the usual number of mistakes to let out the evil spirits. Enjoy.

credits

released September 14, 2018

MATTHEW ABOUREZK – drums
ROGER KUNKLE – guitar
GUY KYSER – vocals, guitar
STEVE SIEGRIST – bass
JOHN VON FELDT – bass
(honorary THIN WHITE ROPE member – BILL STANDARD)

PRODUCED BY TOM MALLON
WITH THIN WHITE ROPE
PAINTING BY ROBERT CARROLL
PHOTO BY CLAY BABCOCK
MANAGEMENT: ML COMPTON, PTERODACTYL
PACKAGE DESIGN: WENDY SHERMAN/ARTSLAVE

All songs published by Swingin' Danglers Music (BMI), administrated by BMG Rights Management, except "Yoo Doo Right," published by Spoon Music (GEMA). All rights reserved.

THANKS TO: Anna and Rudi; Andy Bean; Eric (Rico) Bellis; Steve Blickenstaff; Brenda Brock; Jessica Carroll; Andy Childs; Chim; Chris Corpora; Dave and the Red House, Urbana; Christof Ellinghaus; Lin Esser; Merril Greene; Adele Hegney; Ann Katzenbach; Kelly Keller; Steve Knutson; Camille Lemmings; Kevin Lycett; Fiona McMillan; Bob Power; Joe Sacco; Duncan Sibbald; That Farmhouse Outside of Copenhagen; The Von Feldt Family and of course, the Swingin' Danglers.

2018 REISSUE:
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: LISA FANCHER
PROJECT PRODUCER: JULIE MASI
REMASTERING: PAUL DU GRÉ

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