These United States
These United States is the new DC - a wide-eyed amalgamation of psyche- folk and the punk rock ethic, a band of merry pranksters spinning something fiercely, unapologetically positive out of the sinking reality of an empire gone Titanic. At the helm of the lifeboat, Jesse Elliott, gonzo-journalist-turned- troubadour, whose rag-tag States have criss-crossed the continental U.S. and Europe for nearly 300 shows in their first two years of operations, supporting and sharing stages with the likes of Califone (Thrill Jockey), Richard Buckner (Merge), Page France (Suicide Squeeze), Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Polyvinyl), Catfish Haven (Secretly Canadian), Karl Blau (K), Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter (Barsuk), and Georgie James (Saddle Creek). For his project’s debut release, Elliott called upon an old friend – David Strackany, known to the music world as Paleo, author and sole executor of last year’s remarkable Song Diary (365 songs in 365 days, what Paste Magazine called “a streetfight of freakish prolificacy”). The result of this collaboration, A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden, is a 36- minute allegorical whirlwind through time, space, and sound – think Paul Simon narrating an Andrew Bird master-minded break-in of Bowie’s near- infinite Labyrinth – to be released in March 2008. Between them, Elliott and Strackany roped in upwards of 30 DC- and Midwest-based musicians, and the mixing prowess of District stalwarts Chad Clark (Beauty Pill, Smart Went Crazy, producer for Fugazi, Dismemberment Plan) and T.J. Lipple
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Preface: Painless |
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First Sight |
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Kings and Aces |
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The Business |
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Jenni Anne |
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Diving Boards Pointed at the Sky |
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Burn this Bridge |
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Sun Is Below & Above |
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Remember Dear |
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Slow Crows Over |
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So High So Low So Wide So Long |
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Only the Lonely Devil Knows |
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Ever Make You Mine |
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Water & Wheat |
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What Lasts |
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The Great Rivers |
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One You Believe |
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What Do You Want With My Heart? |
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Dug Him in the Dirt |
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Nobody Can Tell |
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Just This |
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Life&Death She&I |
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Susie at the Seashore |
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Those Low Country Girls |
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Old John Chapman Takes a Good Long Walk |
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Pleasure and Pain and Pride and Me |
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Honor Amongst Thieves |
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We Go Down to That Corner |
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Six Fast Bullets (Five Complaints) |
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West Won |
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Heaven Can Wait |
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When You're Traveling at the Speed of Light |
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Get Yourself Home (In Search of the Mistres Whose Kisse |
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Study The Moon |
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End |
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Will It Ever |
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Good Bones |
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Conquest & Consequence |
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I Want You To Keep Everything |
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Everything Touches Everything |
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The Important Thing |
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The Secret Door |
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I'm Gonna Assemble A City |
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Good Night Wish |
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Night & The Revolution |
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Damned and Redeemed |
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