Jay Farrar, Shannon McNally - Don't Ya Take It Too Bad (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Outlaw (May the Sun Always Shine)
02. No Place at All
03. Blood on the Tea Leaves
04. Backslider's Wine
05. Cortez the Killer
06. Don't You Take It Too Bad
07. Eye on the Road
08. I'm Just Tired of Getting Burned
09. Broken and Scattered
10. That's Why I'm Walkin'
11. Don't Wait
12. Annabelle Lee

Jay Farrar called me in late 2022 and said I am mixing those songs we recorded. I remember thinking what songs Jay?. He and I had recorded a number of tunes in 2008 which I hadn't really thought a lot about since. I was pregnant with my daughter at that time and had just made 'Small Town Talk which hit a wall of difficulty. A couple years went by before I had the chance to wonder why we hadn't finished that project and then about another ten went by before that phone call.

I was of course happy to hear that he'd turned his ears back to that time but couldn't really remember much of what we had done or if it would still stand up. So I was very pleased when he sent me initial mixes and asked if I'd sing a few more new ones that he'd penned to round the album out. Jay has an excellent and humble sense of space and time and that's what you'll hear on this album.

Thanks to everyone who resurrected this gem. I am extremely pleased that it has turned back up. The selection of songs sends me back to a sweet spot in my musical vocabulary. I love the new songs as well. Jay's internal sense of stillness is pretty regal. It sounds like snowflakes before they hit that blanket of snow colliding in virtual silence with the exception of just a wisp of wind and melody.

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