Hackles, by Til Willis

Hackles

by Til Willis

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1.	Savior's Things 04:39	buy track
2.	Falstaff's Apostle 03:44	buy track
3.	Harvest 02:56	buy track
4.	Gravity 05:13	buy track
5.	Lonely Are The Brave 03:12	buy track
6.	Rape Nest 04:57	buy track
7.	Russian Flower 05:03	buy track
8.	My Name Never Came Up 05:45	buy track
9.	Spark 04:08	buy track
10.	Taken To Kansas City 03:31	buy track
11.	Miss My Baby Back Home 03:06	buy track
12.	Cordelia Brown 04:07	buy track
13.	Raft Of Noon 03:20	buy track
14.	That Was Love 03:32	buy track
15.	Cold And Clear 04:44	buy track
16.	Room 14 03:47	buy track
17.	Knotty Pine 04:30	buy track
18.	Up Late 02:19	buy track
19.	Stay Late 01:56	buy track

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An eclectic bag of songs from an ambitious singer/songwriter that span several genres in a 74min running time. It's a new kind of American songbook. If most albums have all the continuity and structure of a novel, then Hackles is a collection of short stories. Rough around the edges, sometimes rambling, and sometimes so straight to the point it’s unnerving. This is a desert island album in that it jumps styles so many times one could just pick sections of it to enjoy separately from the others. From the opening, where an earthbound savior introduces the audience to a world barely hanging together to blues tinged tales of interracial romance circa 1932, these songs come across like half remembered smoky campfire stories. It’s worth mentioning that all the major themes are covered; love, lust, longing and murder. Including a moment where the narrator confesses to killing off part of himself, the part his significant other is in love with, to make room for the real him. Finally, at the end of the album our narrator lifts an old carnival barker’s line, that “if you can’t stay late, come again tomorrow,” perhaps suggesting that if this nineteen song affair is too much to take in one sitting, you can always come back to it. Or, it could simply be saying, “hey, this album has a lot to offer if you listen close.”

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released November 18, 2014

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Til Willis Lawrence, Kansas

Til Willis, born in the heat of 1980, has been making music for a long time. Currently, when not performing solo, he makes noise with Erratic Cowboy. The style of music is lyric driven rock, that draws influence from many sources. Some have described it as Tin-Roof-Rain-Water-Bop. In his years of touring the country, Til has had the pleasure to perform with such notable talents as Pete Seeger.... ... more

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