The Theater Fire - Matter and Light (ATM, 2008)


Recording Engineer, Arranger, Multi-Instrumentalist

The Theater Fire has a knack for spinning yarns about drifters, hangmen, brothers, and lovers grappling with their own honor, trust, guilt and loss. These tales are woven together by arrangements that include weeping pedal steel and violin, strains of accordion, mandolin and xylophone, plucked banjo and guitar, sorrowful brass and the clip-clop of found percussion. The songs combine influences as diverse as zydeco, bluegrass, mariachi, country, gospel and rock and roll - yet somehow remain unmistakably The Theater Fire.

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Album Review:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12738-matter-and-light/