{"product_id":"wes-tirey-midwest-book-of-the-dead","title":"Wes Tirey- Midwest Book Of The Dead [ vinyl ]","description":"\u003cp\u003eWes Tirey's The Midwest Book Of The Dead, is an intimate study of the Midwestern condition. A double album, it tells of silos like chapels, spiders in the cane, of drunkards and saints and fugitives; it speaks of wild geese, and the good life, rhinestone suits, Coca Colas, and dishes drying on the rack. Sincerity, sensuality, and humor all reside in the candor and weight of these songs - it's playing and arrangements, rich but unfettered, and Tirey's voice grown several feet deeper and more sonorous. It is a sublime expansion of a trademark style he has come to call \"rustic minimalism\".\r\n\r\nThe Midwest Book of the Dead finds Tirey both solo for acoustic laments and backed by close collaborators for barroom ballads, with Ryan Gustafson (Hiss Golden Messenger, Phil Cook, Charlie Parr) taking the helm as producer.\r\n\r\nThis assemblage of strangers and stories and snapshots of lives that make up The Midwest Book of the Dead, Tirey likens to \"the book of photographs that you find at a Goodwill\" - perhaps in Dayton, or Fayetteville, or in any of the stops on the highways that separate them. And while there are clues laid out across these lyrics, he believes there is an open-endedness to these songs. Still, the clues carry us on, into this land of high corn and pool halls, of farmboys, rusty Fords, and fathers like Elvis. Blue herons, hearts of steel, vinegar and piss; a land where people might rise \"with everything to show, strong and comely as a colt.\" They are songs told straight and sincere, but that are nonetheless beguiling; the work of a master songwriter, a craftsman, an artist; a man who will always be part of the Midwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed Corn Yellow Corn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Skinny Arms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bang the Drum Slowly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e If Love Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Monument Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Red Corn Raga\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cumberland Ave Night Watch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Life Is Good Life Is Sweet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Wild Blue Yonder (Two Riders)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Fugitive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Wound\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Overworked Undersleep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e One Among the Many\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e My Father at Twenty Two Years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Arkansas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Anything You Please\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Wanda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Where the Blues Fade Away\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mapache Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58030626865416,"sku":"4040824091569","price":5.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5987\/1240\/files\/4101115-2838700.jpg?v=1781580496","url":"https:\/\/evo-global-2.myshopify.com\/products\/wes-tirey-midwest-book-of-the-dead","provider":"EVO GLOBAL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}